ANIMATED: Fielding Error By Nationals Outfielder Belongs On A Blooper Reel

With so many games in baseball there are going to be those wacky plays that are just hilarious. The latest comes between the Washington Nationals and Atlanta Braves game where Stephen Lombardozzi and Rick Ankiel get tangled up in the outfield.

Lombardozzi goes for the ball and catches it off the bounce, but for some reason Ankiel runs from the other side to make a play and gets so close that he has to slide and in the process he takes out Lombardozzi who tumbles over Ankiel.

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by Jeremy Mauss • May 25, 2012 9:26 PM EDT

Braves Lose On Yet Another Homer in Cincinnati

The homer happy Cincinnati Reds got a walk-off home run from Todd Frazier Wednesday night to send Atlanta to its third straight loss and fourth in its last five games. The estimated distance of the game-winning blast was 355 feet which is an out at basically any ballpark but Cinci's Great American Ballpark. After the game Fredi Gonzalez talked about the homer and his own team's struggles with the bats of late.

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by Kris Willis • May 24, 2012 8:01 AM EDT

Georgia Tech To The Big XII: Why?

If DeLoss Dodds were Saddam Hussein, then Chip Brown would be Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, aka Baghdad Bob. With that caveat out of the way, Brown is reporting that Georgia Tech has put out feelers to the Big XII. To me, this calls into question how Georgia Tech sees itself in terms of its sports programs. If Florida State and Clemson were to move to the Big XII, then the ACC would return to its roots as a basketball conference. (A move by Virginia Tech to the SEC would complete the dynamic.) As Bobby Big Wheel pointed out this week, being a basketball conference isn't what it used to be, but at least the ACC would be firmly within its niche and could brand itself accordingly, as opposed to being a two-headed monster where the football schools are pulling in one direction and the basketball schools are pulling in another.

So where is Georgia Tech?

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by B&B Michael • May 23, 2012 9:58 AM EDT

This Is Why You Fail, Sports Radio Edition

This is how my brain works when I am going for a run this morning. I was at the start of a jog, listening to the Solid Verbal interview with Chris Brown from Smart Football* and Dan Rubinstein was talking about how he normally does not get much out of athlete interviews, but he enjoyed talking to recent NFL draftees (especially David Wilson) at an NFLPA event at the Rose Bowl. My first thought was to agree with Rubinstein. I don't really care for interviews with sports players and coaches, either. What is the point of listening to 5-10 minutes of an athlete doing his best to avoid saying anything? This mentality was sufficiently mocked in Bull Durham and then, more recently, by Brewers closer David Axford.

At this stage, it occurred to me why athletes say nothing: they don't want to be criticized afterwards in the event that they lose to the team or player about whom they said something critical. The Mayhem in the AM hosts on 790 illustrated this perfectly after the Hawks lost their series against the Celtics...

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by B&B Michael • May 23, 2012 8:07 AM EDT