The greatest single game accomplishment a pitcher can acheive in his MLB career is the perfect game, Dallas Braden did just that. How rare is this feat? More people have orbited the moon then the amount of times a perfect game has been thrown.
After the final pitch, which was a ground ball to Cliff Pennington, Braden was swarmed with teammates hugging and congratulating him on such a great accomplishment. The tears streaming down Bradens’ face wasn’t just because he did something only 18 players before him did, he threw the best game of his career on mothers day. After losing ...
In front of dozens of Oakland Athletics fans at the Coliseum, Dallas Braden threw the 19th perfect game in MLB history and second in team history Sunday.
Afterward, Braden was a little annoyed when his teammates ran across the mound to celebrate with him. He attempted to put a velvet rope around the mound before celebrating but was unable to stop his teammates from getting through.
"Stay the f$%k off my mound!" Braden yelled. "Go around and come hug me."
Thankfully, Braden was able to put his grandmother, Peggy Lindsey, in a hold before she was able to step on the mound, avoiding ...
We knew Dallas Braden was good. We knew he was tough. We knew he had a bit of fight in him. But just how good he could be was simply astonishing. Who knew he could be perfect?
27 up, and 27 down.
On a perfect Mother's Day, you really couldn't ask for more. Sure Braden got some really good help from Kevin Kouzmanoff, and the rest of the Oakland A's defense, but as Dallas said after the A-Rod debacle "I don't care if I'm Cy Young or if I'm the 25th man on the roster, if I've got that ball in ...
I have compiled a list of the 6 top fan bases of the NFL.
Before you think my list is biased to my team preference, I can assure you it is not. I am a Charger fan, and my team is not on the list.
This article is solely to give credit where credit is due, and recognize the hardcore fans of each team represented.
Definition:
Hard core fan- Any person who will read up on their team in May.
May- The deadest month of football news. After the draft and before training camp.
Reward- Recognition of the hardcore fan in May
So how does your ...
The JaMarcus Russell experience is over in Oakland.
After wasting more than $39 million for only seven wins in 25 starts over three years, the Raiders released the top overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.
Oakland still owes $3 million to Russell, who completed just 52.1 percent of his passes in his career with 18 touchdowns, 23 interceptions, 15 lost fumbles, and a passer rating of 65.2.
Russell now joins Ryan Leaf, Tim Couch, Akili Smith, Cade McNown, and Charles Rogers as one the biggest busts in NFL history.
As a matter of fact, the entire 2007 quarterback class is looking pretty bad ...
Darren McFadden needs to get in gear to avoid a "Russell-like" fate!
The current offseason put together by the Oakland Raiders has inspired a ground swell of positivity and elation from the majority of Raider Nation. The great draft, the trade for Jason Campbell, and the cutting of dead, unproductive weight is very pleasing to most fans.
The move that seems to supercede all others is the release of former first overall pick, JaMarcus Russell. The No. 2 jersey-burning parties in the parking lot, the heaps of negative press, and the virtually singular voice of the fans demanding his release have finally ...
It’s a shameless sport that seems to wilt rather than expose positive innovations, such as legit sluggers or aggressive base runners.
Instead it consists of shams, boldly juicing their bodies without producing in a pure and artistic fashion. It was just over a year ago, when frequent drug busts revealed con artists from a disturbing list.
All of us felt betrayed and deceived for glancing at overpaid shams, oblivious pitchers and outfielders paralyze America’s Pastime, a competitive game our great grandfathers and grandpas endeared before corruption elicited collateral damage.
In a game with many misconceptions, baseball is still in a ...
OAKLAND, Calif. Sometimes, things have a way of working out perfectly. The often-overlooked Oakland Athletics took on the Tampa Bay Rays, the team with the best record in baseball, in the rubber match of the three-game series. Dallas Braden was Oakland’s starting pitcher, it was Mother’s Day, it was the first game of the Dallas Braden 209 promotion, and Braden’s grandmother, Peggy Lindsey, sat in attendance along with 30 of his closest childhood friends. As if it was not by chance, but by fate, Dallas Braden threw the 19th perfect game in MLB history in the A’s ...
The MLB Index
Alright guys, we’re back with another Monday morning edition of The MLB Index where we power rank the teams according to pre-season expectations. This list doesn’t answer much of anything important, but it does provide you with an idea of where the teams in major league baseball stand and sometimes, that’s all you want early in the week.
Remember, there are four categories teams can fall into and throughout the year they will fall in and out of them. The categories are Top Performers , Biggest Under-Performers , Unexpected Over-Performers ...
In "The 209" they call that pitchin'.
The days leading up to Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden's perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday—the 19th in MLB history and the first for Oakland since Catfish's 42 years ago—sure had its fair share of talkin'.
The New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez said he didn't want to extend Braden's "15 minutes" after continued questions and jawing about the controversy regarding the two players' baseball etiquette dust-up (mound dirt-up?) last month.
ESPN columnist J.A. Adande essentially called him a nobody on the World Wide Leader's flagship yammering sports columnist show, "Pardon The Interruption."
In his ...