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Ugliest Players in Major League Baseball

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 0:55:01 EDT

So, I haven't posted on my blog in quite some time. What better way to brush off the cobwebs than post a Top 10 list?

Any true baseball fan watches at least 100 games a year. That's a nice round number, wouldn't you say? Not too high, not too low. Anyway, there's lots of slow time during a baseball game. Batters re-adjust their gloves between pitches. Pitchers take strolls after they don't get a call on a ball on the black.

The point is, we as fans get a lot of time to look at these ballplayers standing still for a long camera shot. Most of them are fairly modest to good looking men, and I say this in the most hetero sexual way possible.

But there are also a handful of players whose existence defines the word ugly. You know who they are. If you don't, allow me to share with you, in no particular order, a list of the ugliest players in baseball.

Shove It, Sharpton. It's a Free Country.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:26:35 EDT

Rush Limbaugh has been in the news lately because he's taken interest in investing in an NFL franchise, the St. Louis Rams.

Cue Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and every black sportswriter in the United States getting their panties in a bunch.

Limbaugh, a radio personality and conservative political commentator, has been accused of being racist by Sharpton and Co. That's a crushing-blow-of-an-accusation, considering the fact that over two thirds of current NFL players are black.

Before I go further, I want to let it be known I am by no means a fan of Limbaugh's, nor am I a Republican. In fact if I did vote, and I don't because America is a free country and I choose not to, I would vote democrat. In addition, I have never listened to Limbaugh's radio show or read any of his books. I could care less about his political views.

Media beats the dead horse that is Pacman

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:49:06 EST

In the past, it has usually been Adam Jones doing himself in. Whether it was brawling with his own bodyguard or making it thunderstorm in the club, Jones just couldn't keep himself out of trouble. Jones had received multiple suspensions, usually correlating with how the legal proceedings went.

The Dallas Cowboys have released Jones, after a report on ESPN implicated Jones in past incident they were unaware of. In the story, Jones(allegedly) was the ring leader behind a shooting outside of a club. To be honest, the details of the story don't matter to me.

What does matter to me is how quickly the Cowboys dumped Jones once they heard of the allegations. Jerry Jones and the Cowboys stuck with Jones through his initial reinstatement, his mid-season suspension, and second comeback. Then all of a sudden, a story breaks about an past incident (in which no charges were filed against Jones), and they release him. Apparently, lack of evidence to press charges against Jones didn't stop the Cowboys' quick trigger-finger.