It’s the trading deadline & Miguel Tejada just got moved to the Padres. Remember when he blew a gasket after D Lowe K’d T Long to end the 2OO4 ALDS? So do we. It’s the All-Temper team….
It’s the trading deadline & Miguel Tejada just got moved to the Padres. Remember when he blew a gasket after D Lowe K’d T Long to end the 2OO4 ALDS? So do we. It’s the All-Temper team….
29. July 2010
Nats fans, if you missed BSG at the ballpark last night, fear not, the good folks at MASN made sure to capture the magic for us all. Check it out as BSG breaks down the Nationals starting lineup for Johnny Holliday and Ray Knight. Thanks to everyone who came out to the park, to MASN for taking such good care of us, and to Ray Knight just for being Ray Knight. Enjoy!
25. July 2010
Batting Stance Guy would like to send a heartfelt congratulations to Andre Dawson on being the lone player inducted into the 2010 Hall of Fame! We’ve got nothing against Whitey Herzog, but that’s some difficult stance footage to come by. Enjoy your day in Cooperstown Hawk… I’m sorry, Mr. Hawk.
20. July 2010
Earlier this year BSG put down the razor for a few days to bring you good people the 1st and 2nd All-Mustache teams, the All-Beard team, and the first ever All-Fu Manchu team. It was a strong, but incomplete effort. Today he completes that illustrious set of facial hair goodness, by bringing you the best kept chin hairs in MLB history. It’s the All-Goatee Team, in under a minute!
19. July 2010
Now that we’re through the allstar break, we hope everyone enjoyed the start of the second half of the season this weekend. The Cardinals and A’s for sure did, picking up where they left off to stretch their winning streaks to 5 games. The White Sox on the other hand…. BSG breaks it all down for you this week, from where else, but Jackson Mississippi, home of the Mississippi Braves, Brian McCann’s MLB roots, and Phil Wellman’s antics. It’s the Week in Review!
12. July 2010
It’s official folks, we’re halfway through the season. Which means, amazingly enough, that you are watching the 14th edition of the Week in Review. Congratulations for making it this far with us, we hope to see you at week 28. But before that, how bout a visit at the All-Star game? Thanks to the good folks at FoxSports, YardBarker, and Lexus, BSG will be all over FanFest and the other All-Star festivities this week, so to track him down, use your social media tool of choice to tweet or facebook him. It’s the Week in Review!
5. July 2010
Coming to you from the shores of Mailbu, it’s the Independence Day edition of the Week in Review! BSG has much to say about the upcoming all-star break and the league’s first rendition of the rosters, but he’ll save that for later in the week. For your national holiday, he digs deep into the numbers supplied by the good folks at wezen-ball.com, and comes back with the only 4th of July, baseball-themed, video-blog to analyze base-running times. God bless America. It’s the Week in Review!
2. July 2010
Is there anything sexier than the chest hair of David Wells? Batting Stance Guy gives him a run for the money today as he takes the form of some of the best chest-bearing players to ever half-wear a MLB jersey. Get this and many other lists of silly baseball goodness in the one book written to glorify such things. Enjoy!
29. June 2010
Not too much to add to that title, so we’ll just say thanks to the Bleacher Report for including him. And #6 at that. It’s a great list though, and we gotta give props to our buddy Josh Womack for topping the group. So far, it’s the only stance BSG can’t imitate. So check it out > The 20 Coolest Sports Tricks in History.
25. June 2010
The Yankees and Dodgers kickoff an interleague series for the ages tonight in LA. Will Torre and Girardi let it be a free-swinging affair for their clubs? If so, we could see some other hitters join this group. It’s Batting Stance Guy with the All-Strikeout Team. Enjoy!
24. June 2010
Been a rough week for the Tampa Bay Rays, but they’ll try and stop the bleeding as they look to avoid the sweep vs. the Padres this afternoon. If not, Evan Longoria won’t be able to cheer himself up with a Starbucks Lemon Loaf. What else does he not like? Find out in Questions From BSG’s Daughters.
23. June 2010
When you’re trying to imitate stances for all of baseball, it helps to talk to someone who’s been around. Enter Hard Hittin’ Mark Whiten, who played for 8 MLB teams in his illustrious career. BSG took some time at spring training in Tampa this year to talk stances with the journeyman slugger. Enjoy!
22. June 2010
After the Yanks defeat at the hands of the D-Backs last night, the Rays will look to reclaim a share of the best record in the league tonight as they take on the NL West leading San Diego Padres. The Rays will have many questions to answer down the stretch about their ability to hang in the brutal AL East, but first Carlos Pena has to answer questions from BSG’s daughters.
21. June 2010
In this week’s rendition of the Week in Review, BSG takes a look at the “stop-action-pose,” and who’s doing it best. And he had some heavy contenders this week with things like Adrian Beltre’s falldown blast over the Green Monster. But in the end, Hanley Ramirez takes the cake. BSG explains why. It’s the Week In Review!
20. June 2010
The Mets had a rough weekend, losing the subway series to the Yanks and ending their 7 game road winning streak. And to add insult to injury, Johan Santana managed to tie the Mets’ single season record of 3 allowed grand slams in the process. Ouch. But fear not Mets fans, BSG is here to ease your pain with memories of times not so long ago. So here they are, fresh out of 1986, the World Champion New York Mets.
17. June 2010
As interleague play plunges onward, the Tampa Bay Rays take their best-record-in-baseball up against the NL East leading Atlanta Braves as they try to win the series tonight. Rays fans will be hoping for a repeat of Evan Longoria’s 3 RBI Tueday night outing this evening. But first, he’s got the ultimate challenge before him. It’s Who Knows you Better with the Batting Stance Guy.
16. June 2010
Tampa Bay Rays slugger, Carlos Pena, recently ended a 6 game HR streak, coming just 2 games shy of the MLB record held by Dale Long, Don Mattingly, and the recently retired, Ken Griffey Jr. It was the 2nd biggest moment of his 2010 season, as just a few months earlier, to his great surprise, he got to play Who Knows You Better with the Batting Stance Guy. It’s been a big year for Carlos, its been a real big year.
15. June 2010
In honor of the Boston Celtics, and their chance at an NBA title tonight, BSG brings you another group of champions from Beantown. So here they are, the curse-ending, Yankee-beating, Cardinal-dominating, World Champion, 2004 Boston Red Sox. In under a minute.
14. June 2010
Coming late to the party on a Monday evening, it’s the MLB Week in Review, Week 10 edition. This one’s for the kids, as BSG takes a look at the youth of the baseball nation. It was a big week for the Nationals youth, with Bryce Harper, Strasburg, and our buddy , Drew Storen on the scene. And even the US – England World Cup match couldn’t top the Daniel Nava, rags to riches story. It’s the Week-In-Review!
10. June 2010
It’s not likely that you’ll get face-time with one of the 50 greatest batters of your lifetime. It’s even less likely that you’ll have recently been allowed to write abook about such a subject and get to show that batter his chapter in your book. And it’s way way less likely that you’ll compare that batter to Pedro Cerrano as you hand him a copy of said book. But when BSG meets Jim Thome, we’d expect nothing less.
10. June 2010
If you’ve read his book, then you know BSG is a bay area native. If not, Amazon’s got plenty of copies of A Love Letter to Baseball just waiting for you to enjoy! So it was quite the homecoming last week when BSG took the field at Oakland Coliseum to chat it up with the A’s. Only slightly less interesting to the crowd than the post-game fireworks, BSG was still able to talk stances with Andrew Bailey and Daric Barton. Enjoy!
8. June 2010
14K’s. Not a bad start. But was the stance better? You be the judge.
8. June 2010
Last night the Washington Nationals drafted 17 yr old hitting golden boy, Bryce Harper, 1st overall. Tonight, in a story receiving almost no media attention, the Nats pitching prospect phenom (say that 3 times fast) Stephen Strasburg, takes the mound for the 1st time. Big news for sure, but the Washington rookie drafted after Strasburg last year (and called up first), Drew Storen, is the first of those 3 to play Questions From My Daughters with BSG, sooooo…… what’s bigger?
7. June 2010
Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but apparently something went down in Detroit this week involving a pitcher, an umpire, and a 28 out Perfect Game. Well BSG wants to chime in too, so for his take on the Galarraga/Joyce debacle, and the rest of the news from the 9th week of the 2010 season, here’s the Week-In-Review!
4. June 2010
BSG will be back in the Bay Area tonight for a book signing @ Oakland Coliseum as the A’s take on the Twins! If you missed BSG’s media assault on the Bay Area last week, don’t worry, it’s NBC Bay Area’s Laurence Scott to the rescue. We’ve got his story on BSG’s Bay Area roots right here for your Friday. Once more for fun… Bay Area. Enjoy!
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30. July 2010
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