The Clog

April 13, 2012 03:51 PM

David Roth

Best Internet Ideas: Inappropriate At-Bat Music

In real life, at-bat music is a bummeriffic stretch of mambo, contemporary Christian rock, and whatever the right-now counterpart is to Alien Ant Farm's awful "Smooth Criminal" cover. On Twitter, though, it's a different story entirely.

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April 12, 2012 04:57 PM

David Roth

The Ballad of C. J. Nitkowski

C.J. Nitkowski started a website right around the start of his baseball career, giving him a legitimate claim as baseball's first blogger. A decade and a half later, he's using that website to document what the end of that career—or maybe not—feels like.

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April 12, 2012 01:23 PM

Eric Nusbaum

Your Backup Goaltenders of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Matching Game

Do you know who the backup goaltenders are in the NHL postseason? Then prove it with this simple but exceedingly difficult quiz. (You can explain why you know this later, if you like.)

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April 11, 2012 12:55 PM

David Roth

#MULTIPLE#

Ballpark Garbage Nachos: A Conversation

Baseball food services giant Aramark has announced a new line of signature nachos that offers a wide array of aesthetic and ethical challenges. In conversation, David Roth and Ryan O'Hanlon take on the problem that is Arctic Nachos.

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April 10, 2012 02:44 PM

Joe Tirabassi

Bohemians Rhapsodizing: The Joy and Pain of Starting A Minor League Team

We're on record as loving the Baltimore Bohemians, an unique, stylish upstart minor league soccer team in Charm City. With the Bohs season approaching rapidly, we're turning things over to Bohs co-owner Joe Tirabassi for a diary series we're calling (sorry) "Bohemians Rhapsodizing." In part one, we learn about the long odds, long hours, and weird thrills of starting a minor league team.

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April 10, 2012 11:47 AM

Christopher Mann

Understanding Bubba

Further than dreams.

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April 10, 2012 10:23 AM

Eric Freeman

This Week in Mario Balotelli: Down in the Valley

In which our hero is terrible and becomes the devil.

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April 9, 2012 10:33 AM

David Roth

See You Tuesday!

In which we take an unscheduled three-day weekend as we make our ways back to our computers after weekends spent doing various religious/cultural/familial things. Back to our regularly scheduled programming on Tuesday.

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April 5, 2012 10:41 AM

David Roth

Salute Your (Norfolk State Game-Worn) Shorts: Meet Your Classical Bracket Champion

Hats off, and small nylon shorts in the mail, to Kevin Slane, the champion of The Classical's Prognostic-achievers Bracket Challenge. How could he possibly have known that Kentucky could pull this off?

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April 4, 2012 01:51 PM

Bethlehem Shoals

What Shaq's Dove Ad Refuses to Say

O'Neal's ubiquitous skin care spot with his mom warmed a lot of hearts, but did it dodge the very point it was trying to make?

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