You know you miss baseball when...

Joemauer

...you hallucinate and *think* you see Joe Mauer everywhere.

Yeah, this kinda happened to me.  I thought I saw him twice at 30th Street Station and then once at Penn Station on Sunday.  Clearly, none of these men were actually Joe Mauer.  They probably didn't even look all that much like Joe Mauer at all.  But I miss baseball and BILFs, and so I'm seeing Joe Mauer's face on every tall, dark-haired guy who is in my vicinity.

On a related note, I also thought I saw Jayson Werth driving in the car behind me when I was going to the bank today.  (He had Werth-like hair, but he was not Jayson Werth.  How can I be so sure of this?  No ridiculous sunglasses.)

BILF news and notes, 11/13/09

Two of the BILFiest BILFs were awarded Silver Sluggers today...Chase Utley and Joe Mauer!  It's Mauer's third Silver Slugger, and Utley's fourth.  Hot and talented...I love it!

In other news, Brad Lidge underwent successful surgery for his flexor pronator tendon and the loose body in his elbow.  Here's hoping he also undergoes surgery on that godawful playoff beard/scruff he was sporting...'cause there's just no excuse for that.

What IS that...?

Shane

Congrats to J-Roll and the Flyin' Hawaiian for winning Gold Gloves this year!  They earned 'em.  But the bigger issue at hand--or, um, perhaps at crotch--is this: What in tarnation is on Shane's naughty bits there, and why is that the picture MLB.com chose to use in their e-mail blast announcing Shane's and Jimmy's awards?  They couldn't have found a better one of Shane that didn't have some sort of wacky crotch rot on it?  The MLB e-mail blast must have been sent by an angry, bitter Mets fan with rudimentary Photoshop skills...



Congrats to the AL Gold Glove winners...

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The American League Gold Glove winners were announced today.  Buehrle, Teixeira (for whom I have a rather intense and inexplicable hatred), Polanco, Longoria, Jeter, Jones, Ichiro, Hunter, and one of my favorite BILFs, the Twins' Joe Mauer. Congrats to all, and a special congrats to the really hot ones (Mauer and Longoria, I'm lookin' at you...but not you, Jeter, because you've got an oddly-shaped head and I still have no idea why you're considered attractive).

The picture above is from one of my very favorite Mauer plays this season...where he blocked the Yankees' Brett Gardner at the plate after faking a throw to first.  Smart guy, that Mauer.  Gotta love his defensive skills (and his hot sideburns...and his ass...OK, I'll shut up now).

This one's a no-brainer, but...

...thank goodness the Phillies picked up the option to keep Cliff Lee around for the 2010 season.  He's by far the best starter the Phillies have.  Now, if Hamels can work his way back up to being a top-notch starter, and if Happ and Blanton can keep pitching well, then all they really need to do is find one more solid starter and their 2010 rotation shouldn't be too bad.

I'm curious what they're gonna do about a closer, though.  I read that Lidge is having some surgery, so maybe if he gets all fixed up, he'll be better in 2010.  Or should the Phillies not even risk using him again?   If they don't use him, what would they do with him, and how much would it cost them monetarily to not use him?

I do believe (as do others) the Phillies are gonna come back with an outstanding team next year, though.  Hopefully they can make a smart trade or two in the offseason (and maybe, like, get us a third baseman who can hit?) and also get another starter and address the problem of a somewhat shaky bullpen. 

It's only been 4 days without baseball and I'm already entirely too enthusiastic about seeing the Phillies again, haha.  Yes, I am a baseball addict.  Or at least a BILF addict...

Oh, Shane...

If you wanted to invite somebody douchey to your wedding, you could have invited me.  Granted, I am not a douche on a regular basis, but had you invited me to your wedding, I would have gotten tipsy and gaily tossed myself into the laps of your attractive friends, especially if they happened to be professional ballplayers.  So, see, if you want douchey, I can totally provide it.  If you needed the douche factor, you didn't have to invite freakin' Jon Gosselin to your wedding.  I guarantee I clean up better than Jon Gosselin does (I can rock a Betsey Johnson dress like nobody's business!), and I can also guarantee that one of your friends would have had a really, really good time that night.

*sigh*  Shane, I am so very disappointed in your complete and utter lack of taste.  But, oh yeah, congratulations on getting married and all that!  Here's hoping you have better taste in wives than in wedding guests.