Holas y muy besos to you, readers of El Yard-Work.org! It is I, your internacional ambassadoress of beisbol, pop music, y the grande Bolivar-ish revolución del Húgo Chavez! Excuse of me to you for not so much writing on this e-weblog. But it is hard work being the public beautiful face of the new Venezuela. […]
Continue reading →Today, Yard Work will step aside and introduce today’s Season Preview post from longtime A’s manager Connie Mack with an anecdote from Mack’s Wikipedia page: “Once, when [Mack] visited the mound to remove the notoriously hot-tempered [Lefty] Grove from a game, Grove said, ‘Go take a shit,’ when Mack held out his hand for the […]
Continue reading →What, you think the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview shriveled up and died like the site usually does between May and August? Shut up! For the San Diego Padres’ preview, we took a big flying leap and reached out to one of our favorite rock stars, golden god Scott Weiland! And he reached back! Like, […]
Continue reading →It’s never too late for another 2008 Season Preview from your favorite baseball weblog, especially when the preview concerns the New York Mets, and extra-especially when it’s written by longtime Yard Work commentator (and former Mets player / coach) Rickey Henderson! Get paid with Met knowledge! Man, all Rickey has to say about those toilet […]
Continue reading →Greetings, fellow liberty seekers. As you know, this year the baseball team of our nation’s capital finally gets its own stadium. The Washington Nationals will no longer be subservient to the whims of big government and the corporate greed of Major League Baseball. In 2008, as a prime signifier of the coming rise of the […]
Continue reading →Detroit’s poor opening week seems to have strongly influenced Iggy Pop’s prognosis for the season that lies ahead. Read on for his full analysis of the team. I’m cranky and I’m tired, and the Tigers are stinking up the joint at 0-6, ain’t got no fix ’cause Brandon Inge is a rich bitch. They’re uninspired, […]
Continue reading →We break format in our Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning 2008 Season Preview to reprint a recent speech from Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, which seemed to be a pretty good Pittsburgh Pirates preview to us. We here present this speech excerpt, delivered last Thursday in Erie, Pennsylvania, with special permission from the Obama campaign. Thanks, […]
Continue reading →Opening Day’s come and gone, but Yard Work’s 2008 Season Preview keeps limping along! Today we hear from another presidential nominee, Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, as she holds court on her hometown team, the New York Yankees. Just as it has been my honor to serve as a Senator to the greatest state in these […]
Continue reading →A wise man once said, “It ain’t over ’til the kind-of-hot former stripper and Oscar-winning screenwriter sings.” Well, our season preview won’t be over until we hear from Hollywood’s new it-girl, Juno scribe — and Entertainment Weekly columnist — Diablo Cody. Hey there, home fries. It’s me, your girl Dizzy D, lost and found in […]
Continue reading →Like sands through the hourglass, if the hourglass was full of water, so goes the 2008 Yard Work Season Preview. Today’s installment concerns the Philadelphia Phillies, and is penned by AM radio drive-time personality (and Emmy Award winner) Howard Eskin. Ah, Phillies baseball. Like watching retards trying to snap their fingers. Seriously, folks, if you […]
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