We've done quite a bit of crapping on the Baltimore Orioles in the past week, and rightfully so. The organization has reached a different level of depressing, a level that's included an absolute shellacking at the hands of the New York Yankees, their star player trying to fight the manager in the dugout and their outfielders getting hit in the head with the ball while attempting to make diving catches. “Sad” might be too kind of a word to describe Baltimore's season.
And yet, the O's are not the worst team in the MLB, not by a long shot. That designation belongs to the Detroit Tigers, who, at a horrific 35-81, are two full games worse than Baltimore, though they have the same amount of losses. Let's be honest, they both stink, but the Tigers outfield outdid the Orioles outfield on Tuesday night with the new most embarrassing play of the year in the MLB (Baltimore held the crown for almost three full months).
In the top of the ninth, with the Tigers in full “let..

Over the past few years, the wide world of baseball has been blessed with some truly amazingly terrible strike calls. Calls so bad that the very fabric of America's Pastime begins to frays. Calls so bad that baseball Twitter collapses in on itself like a dying star. Calls so bad that we can't help but watch them again and again and again. Enter professional MLB home plate umpire Marty Foster, who delivered one of the worst strike three calls in the history of organized baseball on Monday night, sending Tony Kemp to the showers in the away ninth of a two-run ballgame with this big, fat matzo ball.
https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1161461997713743872
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You hate to see it. Really you do. Now I love a good ol' punch out as much as the next guy. I also love watching the Cubs lose. But with every wonky strike call MLB umps ring up, the arrival of RoboStrike only hastens, followed closely by a ma..

She was always there for me, Scott Harrington thought. In Jennifer’s darkest hour, Scott was damn sure he was going to be there for her.

The law of averages finally caught up to Padraig Harrington this week. The European Ryder Cup captain traveled from New York to Prague on Tuesday for this week's Czech Masters on the European Tour. Unfortunately, his clubs didn't make it there with him.
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But this isn't your typical tale of tour-pro travel woes because the three-time major champ had previously been a zero-time victim of airlines losing his precious cargo. And Paddy acknowledged just how lucky he's been over the past three-plus decades:
https://twitter.com/padraig_h/status/1160822938800730112
Considering all the traveling Harrington has done during his long career, that really is something. He was long overdue to have this happen, and fellow European Tour pro Chris Paisley quickly weighed in on this remarkable streak:
https://twitter.com/ChrisPaisley86/status/1160859546690162688
Forget Tiger Woods' 142 consecutive cuts made or his..

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Golf fans are hoping to see Tiger Woods tee it up at least one more time this season at this week's BMW Championship. But one golfer, PGA Tour winner C.T. Pan, is wishing Woods plays more than anyone.
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We say “hoping” because Woods withdrew before the second round of last week's first FedEx Cup Playoff event, the Northern Trust, citing an oblique strain. As of now, the reigning Masters champ is still in the field at Medinah Country Club and no one is as excited about that as Pan, who drew a Thursday-Friday pairing with the legend due to their proximity in the FedEx Cup standings. Here was Pan's amusing reaction to learning of his tee time with Tiger on Monday night:
https://twitter.com/ctpangolf/status/1161057483143692288
About an hour later, Pan, who won the RBC Heritage in April the week after Woods' historic victory at Augusta National, was back on Twitter wearing a special shirt to celebrate t..

Garrett EllwoodLet’s get right to it.
Tacko Fall signed a taco. Here’s the video from Reddit, which is where all of the best NBA signatures on random pictures and items stem from.
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1161006232146255879?s=20
It’s not a taco taco, which is a tad disappointing. But it is a picture of a taco and that’s a much better photo to have autographed from Boston Celtic rookie, Tacko Fall, than a signature on a normal photo of the 7’7” behemoth.
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Despite the seemingly open-and-close nature of the 21-second clip, I have plenty of questions about what’s happening here. This is my Zapruder Film.
Where did our unnamed protagonist, the teenager looking for a Tacko signature, print this photo?
Does his family have a printer at home or did he make a trip to the library or even a nearby Staples in order to use a public printer?
Did he pay the 25 cents or wha..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we secretly hope the PGA Tour’s slow-play problem never gets solved. Bryson DeChambeau's dawdling at Liberty National gave us a pair of viral videos, a collection of critical tweets by fellow tour pros, and even a “say it to my face” moment between Bryson and Brooks Koepka, the PGA Tour's self-appointed Sheriff of Slow Play. Of course, things didn't escalate beyond that because this is golf, but still, that's some good content. Thanks, Bryson! Keep up the good slow work! On the other hand, to anyone playing with or ahead of me, please pick up the freaking pace. Anyway, here's what else has us talking.
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Patrick Reed: How about this guy’s timing? For a second time in three years, Reed won his first event of the season at the first FedEx Cup Playoffs event, all but locking up a spot on Team USA for the Presidents Cup in December. Captain America winning in the shadow of Lady Liberty. How PATRIOTIC.
Fa..