The shortest professional baseball game ever played took 47 minutes. It was June of 1966, and on their way to a World Series title the Orioles stopped in California to take 3 of 4 from the Angels, winning the second game 1-0. In that game, every batter swung at the first pitch, only Andy Etchebarren […]
Entries Tagged as 'Miscellaneous'
Stat of the Moment
August 12th, 2008
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Announcement!
August 12th, 2008
If any of you live in the New York area and are looking for:
A) Something to do on a Thursday night
B) A good way to support local theater, or
C) Oh hell, a little bit of both
Then check out … hey, wait a minute, why am I suddenly getting déjà vu?
Anyway, Point of You Productions, the […]
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Let the Games Begin
August 8th, 2008
The Summer Olympics! A time when the finest athletes in the world can come together, run around, throw things, have their fluid specimens tested, and insist that yes, they’ve totally heard of Bahrain and can find it on a map. With the Games of the XXIX Olympiad just hours away, we here at SD wanted […]
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In Their Own Words
August 6th, 2008
“As you can tell from these photographs, the hieroglyphs inscribed in the tomb’s antechamber are fairly straightforward. Here we see a kneeling man followed by an eye, some water, two ravens and a foot — which, as our best Egyptologists indicate, can be loosely translated as ‘foreign interloper.’ Here, the man is shown entering the […]
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Stat of the Moment
July 25th, 2008
According to the guys over at Baseball Prospectus, the only left-handed batter* in Major League history to hit for the cycle the day after going hitless, in an away game against a division rival, facing a lefty, on a day when the team’s hotel had no hot water, using someone else’s bat, for a team […]
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Correcting and Replacing
July 21st, 2008
We regret the following errors that were reported in recent issues. Several rumors have been circulating regarding the measures that we, the editorial staff, have taken to combat the increase in factual errors—measures that, as one rival publication put it, “could charitably be called draconian.” We would like to address these rumors now. In short, […]
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Serpents of the Frost Blade
July 14th, 2008
As you clean the goblin blood from the glimmering blade of Patience, you look around Brennick’s apartment. There isn’t much the goblins didn’t ransack. Your brother’s furniture lies strewn about, underbellies all exposing the same logo in a Nordic script. Dishes have been shattered, clothes piled upon the floor—from the looks of it, they may […]
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Toll free
June 16th, 2008
Please listen carefully, as our menu options have changed.
If you are an existing customer, press one.
If you are not an existing customer, press two.
If you are a customer, but do not exist, press three.
(One)
If you are experiencing a service outage, press one.
If you have feelings of anxiety or dread about the possibility of experiencing a […]
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