Stanly Cup overshadows Baseball?

Maybe not. But in this baseball comic from Small Market Sports, it sure looks that way.

Snakes in a Press Box

A 3-foot black snake sent reporters scurrying in the press box as the the New York Mets defeated the Cleveland Indians 6-5 in a spring training game on Tuesday.

Sometimes you don't need snappy commentary. This is just plain funny. :) Read the article:
http://dwb.heraldonline.com/24hour/weird/story/3575756p-12824375c.html

Pitchers with the wackiest wind-ups

With the 2007 baseball season on the cusp of starting up, Stuff Magazine has posted a look at some of the oddest pitching forms and stances in MLB history:
http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1793&src=stuff_ed

#10 Orlando Hernandez - tell me he's not in the running to be the next Spider-Man.

Ouch Files: SI Photographer beaned with a pitch

This can't be a good omen for the rest of the season:

New York Mets pitcher Oliver Perez hit a Sports Illustrated photographer on
a leg with one of his warmup pitches. His control improved, his results did
not.

"I got hit pretty good," said the photographer, John Iacono, who was
shooting from near the backstop before the game. "At the last minute, I saw it
coming. I turned my left leg just enough so I didn't get it head on."

From the article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17387607/

How Major League Baseball teams got their names

Montreal Expos. The Canadian city was awarded a baseball franchise in 1968, partly because its 1967 World’s Fair—called Expo ‘67—had been successful. The team was named in honor of the event.

Read the complete post:
http://www.ultimatestupidity.com/index.php/archives/1584