SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Goodness, baseball will be the worse for it when Bartolo retires.
posted by holden at 11:42 PM on May 07, 2016
There will be a time when there is no Bartolo Colon, no Ichiro Suzuki, and no Adrian Beltre in baseball.
That's not a time I look forward to...
posted by grum@work at 12:27 AM on May 08, 2016
Memo to Jason Whitlock: there is only room for one Big Sexy in the North American sports constellation and it isn't you.
And watching the clip of the high Colonic, I'm realizing that I don't think I've ever watched a game televised from Petco Park. Damn, that's a nice ballpark.
posted by beaverboard at 09:55 AM on May 08, 2016
I'm a native San Diegan, and I'm really proud that they were able to pull something like PetCo off. San Diego is normally not an innovator for aesthetics, but during the high water mark for retro-styled ballparks, they went and built an actual modernist one. I don't think it's the best one out there, but it's way better than playing at Qualcomm.
posted by LionIndex at 10:50 AM on May 08, 2016
Big Sexy, the Last Expo, the Dean of the Game, Bartolo Colon has hit his first home run.
posted by Etrigan at 09:47 PM on May 07, 2016