2010 Strike Zone Ump-by-Ump.

Please excuse the self-promotion, but I thought some here would have fun with this. Full link is here:

http://princeofslides.blogspot.com/2011/03/umpire-strike-zones-in-2010.html

In case you haven't seen it yet, here is Scott Stapp singing the 2010 Marlins anthem.

It's amazing.

I got Dye.

Best 4 minutes and 31 seconds on the internet.

LB Keith Bulluck uses a sabermetric analogy to explain the Titans' quarterback situation.

Theo Epstein interview. Awesome, awesome stuff.

This is from the great DShepp of Lone Star Ball. Linking it here because this amazing video must be recognized.

What if sports announcers called classical concerts? Skip to the one minute mark, and then it just gets better as it goes on. (Yes, it's just audio.)

"And they're off!"

The Baseball Card Movie

A mini-documentary on a hobby most of us probably shared put up by Casimir Nozkowski on YouTube. Pretty neat, definitely makes me want to go out and buy a pack. I don't actually collect, and never did seriously, but when I was little, 90% of my baseball interest came in looking at cards. Until I knew what he was like, I loved Barry Bonds just because his card picture was so cool. I still buy a pack now and then and have a shoe box of cards, but it's just not the same.

Matt Vasgersian authors the most uncomfortable segue in the history of television in trying to lighten the mood after video of Brad Hawpe being hit in the head by a throw.

I really like Vasgersian as a play-by-play man, but that's very unpleasent to watch. It's like something from the British Office, but it's real. . .

For what it's worth, I do think Vasgersian was pretty stand up in showing his face to the Kissing Suzy Kolber crowd and owning up to his mistake in the comments section:

"I am an idiot .. Save the racial stuff which is just flat out wrong, almost all of what has been posted on my regrettably horrific timing is spot on .. It was a bad decision made on live tv and i can absolutley understand how that make an announcer sound insensitive. Bad on the spot judgement. Nobody feels worse about it than I do guys"

HT to Deadspin on both stories.