Saturday, May 30, 2015

Squirrel Power

Two weeks ago, we told you about Baseball America's Logomania bracket. We still haven't gotten
over how terrible that name is, but we did manage to make it through. And we couldn't be happier about the winners.

Your Richmond Flying Squirrels topped the Southern League's Biloxi Shuckers in the final, earning more than 61% of the vote in a thorough victory for sciuridae the world over. The Eastern League affiliate of the San Francisco Giants scurried (waaaait a minute. scurried, sciuridae? I see what you did there, science.) through the Quad Cities River Bandits, Tennessee Smokies, and Greensboro Grasshoppers on their way to the final matchup.

No word on what Nutzy did to celebrate, though I bet there are some squirrel hookers in the Fan walking around with just a little more pocket change today than they had yesterday.

21 comments:

Mark said...

An underrated name I forgot to mention when Rob first posted about this: Savannah Sand Gnats.

Mark said...

The Sand Gnats offered me a job and I didn't take it because I'm stupid and the 25 year old version of me didn't realize what a cool city Savannah is.

zman said...

I never turn down a sand [gnat] job.

zman said...

Everyone needs to start listening to 103.9 New York. Old school and 90s hiphop. Get the I heart radio app if necessary.

Mark said...

The owner of Orlando's MLS team chose to privately fund the land purchase and stadium construction for his team. Pretty fucking cool if you ask me.

http://bit.ly/1KusHL8

Mark said...

I was looking at the roster for the USA Basketball U16 team because I'm a loser and basketball nerd and two names jumped out. Charles O'Bannon Jr. and Gary Trent Jr. We are old as hell.

rob said...

headed to awesomecon to record a podcast for work. really hoping to meet michael biehn.

Mark said...

The Tiki/Ronde Barber episode of A Football Life is really good (as most of them are). Tiki is as unlikable as Ronde is likable.

Mark said...

Messi...http://deadsp.in/z3gJ9Na

Dave said...

i'm trying to drink beer and marinate stuff for the grill and my wife and oldest child are totally ruining the vibe. some kind of school math project. i really think teachers assign projects to keep parents from enjoying themselves too much.

Mark said...

I'm outside drinking a couple beers at TJ's favorite hipster hot dog place. A very nice Saturday evening.

rob said...

messi, indeed. 50-yard run, beat four defenders, picked his spot while on the run. silly.

rob said...

according to google stats, this is the second-most viewed gtb post of all time:http://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2010/06/hurricane-igor.html

your guess is as good as mine.

TR said...

We're not that old. I imagine they started getting busy at an early age.

rob said...

did not meet michael biehn at awesome con, but did get two eyefuls of some of the most incredible cosplay culture you can imagine. people are weird and amazing.

TR said...

For a day that's supposed to be terrible, it's pretty nice here in NJ.

Pool at the pool club is up to 73 degrees. Less miserable to swim w/ the kids.

Dave said...

fu tr. my pool doesn't open until next week and we have a soccer game and it's 90 degrees out and it feels like 140. i hope you get a sunburn.

Dave said...

and my older son mistakenly took my younger son's jersey to parsippany, so i had to make a jersey with a duct-taped number for ian. so ghetto.

Mark said...

Pools are still closed up there? Shit, tomorrow is the last day of school here.

Clarence said...

I'm at the beach. We don't need no stinking pools.

zman said...

We went to the zoo. I formed a pool of my own sweat in the feed-the-birds exhibit and swam in that.