April 6, 2012
The Exciting Excitement of Dee Gordon
One of my favorite baseball players of the previous decade retired over the winter, and if you’re not the type of person who follows every lukewarm development of the hot stove league, there’s a very good chance that this news — which was casually announced by the player on a Colombian radio station — passed […]
Read moreDiamond Reflections: Who Is the Pitcher King?
Welcome to Diamond Reflections, a video wrap-up of yesterday’s MLB action. In this post, we talk baseball, share a few laughs, and watch some highlights. Our friends at MLB.com don’t allow embedding on recaps and highlights, so for now there are just links to the video. That will have to suffice until things get a […]
Read moreDwight Howard and the Art of Cool
The reason LeBron James took such an L after he made The Decision wasn’t so much because of where he decided to play as it was about how he conducted himself while making the announcement. Simply put: It was corny. A faux-casual/faux-altruistic setting, a rigid line delivery that made it seem like he had been […]
Read moreAbout Last Night: Red Sox Collapse Continues
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. Detroit’s Austin Jackson got the first walk-off hit of the season, an RBI single in the ninth as the Tigers beat the Red Sox 3-2. “Wait a second,” slurred inactive Boston pitcher Josh Beckett, staggering out of […]
Read moreApril 5, 2012
Stan Van Gundy Diet Pepsi Can Power Rankings
Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard starred in what might be the most cringe-worthy impromptu press conference of the NBA season on Thursday. But you know who, or more accurately what, stole the show? Stan Van Gundy’s Diet Pepsi can.
Read more28 Days Later: Dubs Over Dunks
In the locker room after the Lakers’ win over the Clippers last night, Kobe Bryant was asked about an assessment he’d made early in the season about the burgeoning NBA rivalry in Los Angeles. The reporter paraphrased it for him, something along the lines of, “We’ll let them be exciting. We’ll take the wins.” Bryant […]
Read moreBill Murray Is Still the Best
Here’s Bill Murrary running the bases on Opening Day at Wrigley Field on Thursday. Welcome back, baseball.
Read moreHow to Restore the Legend of Opening Day
At long last, the daytime, American, non-Miami version of Opening Day is here. For some teams. If you’re keeping track at home, here’s how the gradual unveiling of the 2012 season has gone: Phase 1 — Last Wednesday and Thursday, Seattle and Oakland split a pair of games at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. Apparently […]
Read moreWhy Was Gregg Williams Quoting Memoirs of a Geisha?
You know what’s crazy about the audio of Gregg Williams’s pregame speech that was released to the media today? Everything. It’s pretty crazy. You know what is funny about it, though? For all the “kill the head and the body will die,” Brando at the end of Apocalypse Now, and tribal nonsense Williams told the […]
Read more28 Days Later: The Lakers Playlist
With the Lakers, Clippers, and Kings hosting a whopping 28 home games in 28 days from March 11 through April 7 — all happening at Staples Center, which is only a wind-aided Andy Lee punt from Grantland’s headquarters — we couldn’t resist attending these 28 games and writing about as many of them as possible. […]
Read moreTip Your Cap to This New Era Ad
“Once you get north of Division Street, you might as well be in Wisconsin.” This is Parks and Recreation‘s Nick Offerman and The Office‘s Craig Robinson arguing about the virtues of their respective Chicago baseball teams for a New Era hats ad campaign. It is pretty great. The only thing that could have made it […]
Read moreJosh, Will You Go To Prom With Alaina?
Hey, Josh. What’s up? Grantland here. Look, here’s the thing. Earlier this week, your girlfriend, Alaina, e-mailed us with a very simple request: “I need YOU to post an article asking him to prom for me ASAP! Prom is May 12th. Can you do it Grantland?!?! Can you do it?! Please… it will be the […]
Read moreAn Art Gallery Opens and a Baseball Game Breaks Out
We’ve already established the limitations of small samples and how tough it is to glean useful information from one game. But occasionally, we can in fact learn some things from a single game, when we’re watching something we’ve never seen before. For Wednesday night’s Marlins-Cardinals game (Cardinals 4, Marlins 1), that something was Marlins Park.
Read moreB.S. Report: Nick Watney
We’re trying something different for the Masters this year: That’s right, we’re adopting an official favorite golfer for the B.S. Report and Grantland! The big winner? Nick Watney, who recently beat Tiger in a match play tournament. He came on the podcast to discuss his Augusta chances, playing against Tiger, living in Vegas, whether his […]
Read moreAbout Last Night: Bienvenido A Miami!
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. In the first major league baseball game of the regular season on American soil, Kyle Lohse pitched six no-hit innings and lasted into the eighth as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Miami Marlins 4-1. It was […]
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