Fire Eric Bruntlett

Meet The New Beardo, Better Than The Old Beardo

Since Eric Bruntlett departed the Phillies have had a desperate need to fill the gaping hole that his only useful feature left: his tremendous beard.

New ace/greatest pitcher ever Roy Halladay has a pretty good beard.  Kyle Kendrick has been copying Mr. Halladay in every way and also has a decent beard now.  Chan Ho Park grew a nice beard last season but that damn traitor has gone off to the Yankees so screw him.  All looked lost for filling the void left by Bruntlett’s chin hat.

And then Jayson Werth showed up for training camp today sporting perhaps the greatest beard ever!

Hells yes.  Here’s hoping Werth keeps on rocking this beard for the entire season!

More awesome bearded photoshop of the Werthwolf can be found here: http://jaysonwerthbeards.tumblr.com/

Tune Into the BBA Podcast Because We Might Be On It Sometime Soon

Press release from the muckety-mucks at Baseball Bloggers Alliance… (I use the word “muckety-mucks” very loosely, by the way.)

“The writers of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance would like to announce that they are taking to the airwaves.

Beginning Tuesday, February 16th at 11 pm Eastern, BBA Baseball Talk can be found at Blog Talk Radio.  This one-hour show will discuss the big stories of the day in major league baseball and other baseball-related topics.  Callers are welcome to chime in at 347-884-8690.

Your hosts for the first edition will be BBA founder Daniel Shoptaw, who writes at C70 At The Bat, and Ron Kaplan of Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf.

Hosts will rotate on a weekly basis and the time and date of the show may move depending on the requirements of that week’s hosts.

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is a confederation of 132 blogs working together for collaboration and discussion possibilities.”

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Former 3B Coach to Appear on Reality Show

Former Phillies third-base coach, WFC, and current Cleveland Indians third-base coach Steve Smith (he was part of the trade that netted us Cliff Lee, if you remember) will be a contestant on The Amazing Race with his daughter Allie. They will be one of 11 pairs of contestants on the 16^th season of the CBS reality show premiering February 14. (They do two season per year, by the way. It has not, in fact, been on since 1994.)

As I’m assuming most of youse aren’t really the Amazing Race type of reality show people – more a fan of Jersey Shore, right? No? Lil’ Jersey Shore? – here’s Wikipedia’s explanation of The Amazing Race, seeing as I’ve never actually watched it myself, either.

“The race utilizes progressive elimination: the last team to arrive at a designated checkpoint (Pit Stop) leaves the game. The race starts in a US city. Teams must then follow clues and instructions and make their way to checkpoints in places around the world, eventually racing back to the finish line in the US. Along the way they perform tasks that represent the culture of the present country or city. Tasks include Detours (an option between two tasks of various difficulty) and Roadblocks (a task that can be done by only one member of a team); additionally, other optional markers, if reached first, can provide a team with a Fast Forward (allowing a team to skip remaining tasks and go to the checkpoint), a Yield (the ability to delay another team for a short amount of time) or a U-Turn (the ability to force another team to do the other detour they did not choose). Teams race with limited possessions and are given a fixed amount of money for all travel purposes save for airline tickets, which are paid for by production-issued credit cards.”

On CBS’s page for the show, they ask each of the 22 contestants a series of questions about themselves and their partners. ATJ, some of Steve’s and Allie’s answers that I thought were particularly interesting…

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Fire the Bum: Fire Eddie Jordan

Major props go out to the guys over at Liberty Ballers, SB Nation’s Sixers blog, for putting this together…

That’s right, Fire Eddie Jordan shirts. Through the SB Nation store, you can get the tee for $16, the ringer for $17, and the long-sleeve for $20.

Come on, you know you want one! (Steve…)

Now if only we can get them to do something like that for us…

(H/T to @soundofphilly for being on the look-out. Check out his great blog, The Sound of Philly.)

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