"The coach . . . threw in the towel to spare his pitcher’s arm with his team losing 66-0"

Um, wow. That's a pretty tough kid, though, just to be able to stay in there through all of that. Also, this kind of reminds me of some of the worst of our little league games when I was a kid, which probably would have gotten this bad if we didn't have the ten-run rule.

"Lets Play Two"

I'm a baseball fan and a Cubs fan, and I knew about the statue going up at Wrigley, but I hadn't heard about this wacky controversy until today. I'm glad they fixed it, though. Misplaced apostrophes drive me nuts! I'm looking at you, CNN news crawl.

Language Log gets into it.

Deadspin makes light of it.

Chicago Sun Times explains how long it took to chisel in the apostrophe.

Comedyball

From one of my favoritest web sites: some baseball-related comedy yucks.

Yeah, Well You Can Take That Velocipede and Shove It Up Your—

Old-timey baseball + tons of cursing = magic.


Also, for folks who just can't get enough cursing and baseball, here's a classic.