• fastbreakblog

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  I saw that.   Dude was going to cry like a baby.     That was funny stuff.    He asked how the food was there.

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• allonthefield

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  Kyle Kendrick for the former hot dog eating champion. Sounds like a deal1

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'Trade' to Japan leaves Kendrick in shock
MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports — Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick was shocked to learn that he'd been traded to the Yomiuri Giants in Japan for a player named "Kobayashi Iwamura." "I don't know what to think right now," he told reporters outside his locker shortly after getting the news from assistant general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. Had he truly been thinking, he would have realized that such deals are prohibited. And with a little digging he could have found out that there is no Kobayashi Iwamura playing in Japan. The "trade" was, in fact, a prank. The ruse was orchestrated by pitcher Brett ...

This Phillies prank on Kyle Kendrick works on so many levels
Big League Stew — There are still eight months left in the 2008 season, but the rest of the 29 teams are going to need the time if they're going to top the prank the Phillies played on young Kyle Kendrick over the weekend. If you haven't seen it yet (video here), the setup went like this: Manager Charlie Manuel called the 23-year-old pitcher into his office and told him he had been traded to the Yomiuri Giants for a player named "Kobayashi Iwamura." The ruse, expertly orchestrated by Brett Myers (who else?), worked so well that Kendrick was shocked into silence for most of the trick. Couldn't even stop to realize that MLB ...

Weekend Sports Notes
Boiled Sports — Et Tu, NASCAR? As sports continually are emasculated, it becomes less and less surprising that events become less about the sport and more about the spectacle and Disney-generated BS. We had the sheer, uncomfortable displeasure this weekend of getting to watch Chubby Checker lip sync "The Twist" prior to the Daytona 500...followed by Michael McDonald singing an adult contemporary pop song as NASCAR and racing legends alike awkwardly were forced to watch from the very same stage. I've said it before, I'm not a NASCAR fan, but taking a gritty sport that was founded on the guts of bootleggers and making it into ...

Kyle Kendrick gets PUNK'D - Watch this funny video
Dom D's Mets Fan Blog — Brett Myers Plays a little trick on Rookie Pitcher , Kyle Kendrick.

Oh Those Funny Phillies
Diamond Thoughts — I laughed. I wonder what happens if they really have to trade him someday. I'll bet in our PC society someone gets at least verbally reprimanded for this.

Phillies are staying loose early on.
Philly Sports Net — Phillies are staying loose early on. I think the Kendrick prank has gotten enough talk by now that most people have seen it, and in case you missed it, here’s a chance to view it. Kendrick prank. I’m glad to see that the Phillies are getting news on ESPN because of how relaxed they are. Also, pulling a prank like that requires a close chemistry among the team. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Charlie Manuel is a great manager. I know as soon as the season begins, there’s going to be head hunters out there calling for his job. But sometimes, knowing strategy isn’t the only requirement for managaing a team. By keeping them ...

Woody Paige’s Off Season Suggestions for the Broncos
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Kyle Kendrick Prank
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The Power Lunch, 2.18.08
The Buried Lead — News and notes while the Patriots go after Matt Walsh … Ranking the best GMs in the game (SI.com) Jon Heyman of SI.com has the usual suspects atop the list. Great nugget: The poster boy of  “Moneyball” is retiring.  Jeremy Brown, the pudgy OBP machine, is hanging ‘em up at age 28. Study: Jeter is worst defensive shortstop in baseball (New York Post) Predictably, the New York media is none-too-happy with the results of this University of Pennsylvania study. Time for Pettitte to tell the whole truth (FOXSports.com/New York Post) Joel Sherman of the New York Post wants Yankees pitcher to come clean. Tennesse punter ...

Phillies Prank: Kyle Kendrick Traded To Japanese League For Kobayashi Iwamura
FanIQ Blog — Best. Prank. Ever. Brett Myers might not be the best husband in the world, but the man sure can pull of a prank. Wow. From his agent being in on it, an actual transaction written up on Phillies stationary, and Charlie Manuel offering up advice from his time in the Far East you had to feel a little bad for Kyle Kendrick who had no choice but to believe the ridiculous scenario presented to him. Even the media was in on it, which is impressive that they were able to keep quiet. "I wanted to cry," Kendrick said. "I'm going to call my agent and tell ...

Phillies Pull All-Time Prank
My Pinstripes — A great prank takes planning, timing, secrecy, and an easy mark. Apparently the Philadelphia Phillies, especially Brett Myers (guess he took a break from hitting his wife) came up with this prank for the ages. ...

Random Blue Bird Droppings
Drunk Jays Fans — Spring Struck As Jeff Blair wrote on Saturday in the Globe On Baseball Blog, "Major League pitchers [are] throw[ing] Major League bullpen sessions to Major League catchers." It doesn't get much better than that. Although, I suppose having Major League hitters involved somehow would be sort of cool. Most of the team has already arrived at camp and I'm sure that if you close your eyes in the dressing room, the magic of a mediocre team assembling is almost tangible. To mark the beginning of another Spring Training, every newspaper in Canada reported that B.J. Ryan is ahead of schedule on his ...

Kendrick Gets Punk’d
Knuckle Curve — This video is now making the rounds (hat tip to reader Peter F.). Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers set up an elaborate plan to convince teammate Kyle Kendrick that he’d been traded to Japan. I’m not normally a huge fan of these gags, but this one is brilliant: Tags: baseball, brett myers, charlie manuel, kyle kendrick, mlb, philadelphia phillies, ruben amaro Share This ...

This Would Be Funnier If Brett Myers Wasn’t a Wife Beater
Defensive Indifference — Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick gets taken for the ride of his life. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Guest post COW: Jama jumps into the fray
Randball — Jama has a lot to say about quite a great many things. But as a penalty for being late with his entry, he is sharing this space with Paul Paulos, who sent in the picture you see with the following information: “On a fishing outing near Helen Lake in the Wind River Range off Wyoming, I stopped to ...

Kyle Kendrick to Japan?
Bleacher Report — Kyle Kendrick is a 23-year old pitcher for the Philedelphia Phillies. Brett Myers decided that Kendrick should have a heart attack. He orchestrated, with the help of manager Charlie Manuel (right) and even Kendrick's agent, a full trade to Japan that included Hendrick. Of course none of this was real. Not even the Japanese player (who is actually the Japanese competetive eater) is real. But Kendrick was on the verge of tears when he was called into Manuel's office and was explained. The trade was taken to a whole new level when the Phillies staged a full press conference to announce the trade between the ...

Kyle Kendrick, you’ve just been PUNK’D!! [Video]
Hail Mary Jane — This is hiliarious.  Ok so we all know that it is tradition to play pranks in the clubhouse in baseball but this one has got to take the cake. The prank starts off with Pitcher Kyle Kendrick being called into Manager Charlie Manuel’s office where he’s told that he’s been traded to a Japanese team for “Kobayashi Iwamura.”  For those of you who don’t know, thats the guy that eats all the hot dogs. The Phillies went all out on this one, they even got the press to get his reaction.  The really funny part is that somehow, Kendrick forgot that you can’t make a trade from the Majors to Japan.  ...

Oh Man, Those Crazy Phillies
Love Without Nagel's Sports Blog — Unfortunately for the Phillies, Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi is not currently available, as he has developed a chronic jaw injury limiting his Nathan’s  hot dog and bun consumption to 63 in a mere 12 minutes.  Also unfortunate for the Phillies, Kyle Kendrick thinks he’s Batman. ...

Presidents Day Links: Fat Miguel Cabrera Loses Weight, Kyle Kendrick Gets Punked
Baseball Mastermind — Notes From Around Spring Training Newly acquired Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera came to camp for the Tigers having lost at least 15 lbs. This is good for Cabrera, obviously, who has taken a lot of heat for his weight. He is excited and motivated now, playing for a contender. Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA projects a .300/.374/.515 season with 28 home runs, but I think that’s a huge low-ball. I’m thinking Monster season with improved defense–he can only go up in that department. Colorado Rockies pitcher Ubalndo Jiminez put on ...

Links
Cardinals Diaspora — By the time you read this, I’ll be in a plane headed to Las Vegas for a long 3 day weekend. This might be an appropriate time to ask you how you like them apples. But I’m better than that, dick. So I’m going to wish you, Ron Villone and Juan Gone’s hypodermic needle circa 1996 you a very good weekend. And if you don’t here from me on Tuesday, start to worry. If you don’t hear from me on Weds. go a head and plan on a wake next Saturday around 3. It’d be later, but my corpse doesn’t want to miss Without a Trace. Some links in the meantime… You’ve probably seen this by ...

NY Mets: Spring Spewings
Rakin' & Slashin' — The NY Post reports on Beltran getting plunked by Santana, after Carlos (among others) complained that they had enough of facing rookies in batting practice who had something to prove. Manager Willie Randolph put him in the batters box against the best control pitcher on the Mets, Johan Santana. Johan promptly beaned Beltran in the arm, leaving a nice baseball sized and stitch imprinted welt behind. Beltran was later overheard begging Willie to bring Tom Glavine back for spring training BP. Beltran's knees are still sore after off-season surgery and will most likely sit out the Mets first intrasquad game ...

The Jolly Roger is Raised for the First Time This Year
Raise the Jolly Roger — You know what that means...the Pirates were victorious today! Who did they defeat? The mighty Lancers of Manatee Community College, that's who. Now, before I actually get into what happened on the field, let's try and figure out what the heck a Lancer is. Wikipedia: "A lancer (uhlan) was a cavalry soldier who fought with a lance:" Ok, so what's a lance? "A lance in the original sense is a light throwing spear, or javelin." Great. Im still wondering why they aren't just called the Manatees, but whatever. The Bucs won their annual spring scrimmage with the Lancers, 5-0, with Cuban defector ...

Weekly Blog Kiosk
Blue Heaven — More links to wet your whistle. In case you haven't seen ESPN's Dodgertown tribute by Eric Neel click here. It's a must see! Saito experiences a calf strain, but he ask us not to worry. Just a note, everyone should not worry about me, and I appreciate reports. Tony Jackson praises Delwyn Young. What I can't figure out is how this guy has stayed under the radar for so many years while coming up through the minors. He can really play. It's time to give him his due. Maury ...

The Best Prank, Ever
Eli's MLB Rumors — This happened over at the Phillies camp involving everyone except Kyle Kendrick. From Ruben Amaro to Brett Myers, everyone was involved.

MLB Previews: NL East
All on the Field sports blog — When Jimmy Rollins called the Phillies the favorites to win the NL East last season, the average fan would have thought he was just running his mouth. The Braves had owned the division from its inception in 1995, and the Mets were coming off a 97-win season. But last year was a different story: New York caved and Philadelphia surged, and Rollins' words proved correct. This year, Carlos Beltran beat him to the punch and called the Phillies the favorites, attempting to take a little pressure off of New York. I, for one, am not buying it. ...

A Team A Day [Day 19] Philadelphia Phillies Preview
Sportable.com — Will City of Brotherly Love Finally Toast a Champion? Last season was a strange, strange journey for the Phillies. After star shortstop (and future MVP) Jimmy Rollins predicted a division title in the offseason, the Phillies stumbled out of the gate, culminating in manager Charlie Manuel going senile and challenging reporters to a fight. But months later, the Phillies made good on Rollins’ guarantee, capitalizing on the Mets’ historic choke and winning the National League East. Unfortunately for the Fightin’ Phils, their good fortune quickly ended at the hands of the red-hot Colorado Rockies. Now in 2008, the Phillies must make good on yet another ...

Game Recap: Mets 8 -- Phillies 2
The 'Ropolitans | NY Mets Baseball Blog — The Mets took advantage of a multitude of errors by the Phillies Wednesday night, scoring six unearned runs and breaking their nine game losing streak against the Phillies, winning convincingly 8-2. Mike Pelfrey pitched five innings, needing exactly 100 pitches, 66 went for strikes. Big Pelf allowed two earned runs on five hits and two walks while striking out three. Pelfrey gave up a run in the second inning off of a Carlos Ruiz single, which scored Pat Burrell, who singled earlier in the inning. In the fifth inning, with Pelfrey starting to tire as his pitch count rose, he ...

Game Recap: Mets 8 -- Phillies 2
Mets Merized Online — The Mets took advantage of a multitude of errors by the Phillies Wednesday night, scoring six unearned runs and breaking their nine game losing streak against the Phillies, winning convincingly 8-2. Mike Pelfrey pitched five innings, needing exactly 100 pitches, 66 went for strikes. Big Pelf allowed two earned runs on five hits and two walks while striking out three. Pelfrey gave up a run in the second inning off of a Carlos Ruiz single, which scored Pat Burrell, who singled earlier in the inning. In the fifth inning, with Pelfrey starting to tire as his pitch count rose, he walked ...

Dey Took Our Jerbs: Starters Moving to the Bullpen
Walkoff Walk — Perhaps the only thing more embarrassing for a veteran Major League starting pitcher than giving up a home run to Jason Kendall would be getting demoted to the bullpen. Here are three such pitchers who might be facing this utter and soul-sucking humiliation: Kyle Kendrick: No, the Phillies don't exactly have a bunch of available arms to fill his spot, but that didn't stop Uncle Cholly from pushing Kendrick's next start up a bit in favor of the shockingly decent Adam Eaton. Kendrick has allowed 12 hits and 8 walks in just 7 and 1/3 innings pitched across two starts. He's not really pitching this ...

Mini-Advance Scout: Phillies, May 16-18
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine — Here to save us from the doldrums of another boring AL-style pitchers' duel, Interleague Play is back at last! The Jays will open up the NL portion of their schedule in Philly's bandbox against their 3-4-5 starters. ...

How Do You Spell “Retard”, Brett?
N/A — You think the Phillies should’ve told Brett Myers he was being sent down to Japan?  

Kyle Kendrick may be a bit hokey, Brett Myers is probably a douche
The Sports Complex — Kyle Kendrick, the youngest member of the Phillies, has a sweet charm about him.  He’ll answer questions the day before games, he’ll forget to answer them after his starts (then apologize profusely) and seems to genuinely like being a baseball player (and not in the ways that, say, Pat Burrell likes being a ballplayer).  He’s one of the guys who is probably enamored with the concept of being part of a team. Which means that while pranks like this may be funny, they’re also probably a little dickheadish as well.  I bring this up ...

How Much Off-the-Field Violence Is Acceptable for Professional Athletes?
The Big Lead — Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton finally received his six-match suspension for a brutal, unprovoked training-ground attack on (then Manchester City) teammate Ousmane Dabo in May 2007, that left him looking like “the Elephant Man.” The original estimate was fifteen matches, with many calling for his outright ban from professional soccer.  Barton was also fined $50,000. Barton also recently finished a four-month prison term, for an attack on a 16-year-old boy in a Liverpool McDonalds.  Additionally, He has had two other alleged incidents of assault with a taxi-driver and a ...

LCS Preview in 3 Minutes
Cardinals Diaspora — The CD LCS Preview in less than 3 minutes… Boston Red Sox V Tampa Bay Rays Do chicks dream about having sex with Brad Pitt or Matt Damon? I’m sure they have dreams where they’re dating someone famous and holding their hands and shopping for puppies and shit, but do they have dreams where they are boning the living hell out of their fantasy man? Because guys do. A lot. And you know what sucks the most about those dreams? Waking up. Especially on a Monday. Ugh. Well Tampa Bay is in one of those dreams right this very moment. Joe Maddon was cleaning vomit off school bus seats this time last year (I ...

Phillies Pitcher Kyle Kendrick ‘Excited’ That Backstreet Boys Sang National Anthem
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — I’ve had a soft spot in my (cold, black, decaying) heart for Kyle Kendrick since the prank of him getting traded to Japan hit the Web. That was rough. (It was also awesome, pretty awesome.) But this, well, this just takes it to an entirely new and exciting level: After we won Game 1 of the World Series, I texted some of my buddies, guys I grew up with back in Seattle. “You won’t believe this, the Backstreet Boys were here,” I told ‘em. I was standing on the third-base line at Tropicana Field with my teammates when they sang the national anthem. It was pretty exciting for me. ...

Kyle Kendrick Has Shockingly Awful Taste
TheScore.com Blog — Apparently Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick occasionally does some writing for a site called PhillyBurbs.com. Uh... he might want to consider not ever, ever, ever publishing his opinion again. In an article posted on the site this morning, Kendrick reflected on texting his friends back home about excited he was at the start of game one of the World Series. No, not because of the game. Because he was so close to the Backstreet Boys. Go ahead and read that again. Let it sink in. Yeah... let it settle down nice and good. Got that? Yes. The Backstreet Boys. And there's more. ...

Breaking: Kyle Kendrick Hearts Backstreet Boys!
SPORTSbyBROOKS — For professional sports players, having a personal blog is a dicey gamble. While they provide the much-needed service of allowing sports fans a glimpse - and sometimes more - into their personal lives, it also comes with the built-in stipulation that you’re willingly giving fans of opposing teams’ more material to heckle you with. Case in point: It has now been confirmed that Kyle Kendrick loves the Backstreet Boys . Run with it, Rays fans! Kendrick hearts Backstreet Writing on his “personal diary” for the series over at PHILLYBURBS.COM - not being on the World Series roster gives him a decent amount of free time ...

Daily "Linkin' Logs" - Ode to Mussina (11/20/08)
The Bad News Bloggers — Fear not, Daily "Linkin' Logs" will make an appearance. Mike Mussina, coming off a 20 wins season, will retire. We at BNB would like to formerly bid adieu to the Orioles great (and...ugh...Yankee pitcher) who is well over 100 games above .500 in career record and should (deservingly) earn a spot in the Hall soon enough. Chase Utley will have Hip Surgery next week. If, like me, you're a Phillies fan, you knew Chutley was hurt, but he sucked it up and still produced above the level of an average second baseman in the second half. Given his previous history with his wrist injury in 2007, I believe ...

Baseball’s Strangest Pranks and Bad Jokes
Phightin' Phils Phorum — Continuing our Strange Baseball series, here is the latest installment:  Baseball Pranks and Jokes.  Please, do not try these at home J Atlanta Braves Minor Leagues – a player, who apparently will remain nameless, was told by his teammates that his hotel room in Scranton was haunted and that a ghost was going to try to kill him.  His teammates even got a key to his room and re-arranged things so he would think that the ghost did it.  This poor, gullible ...

All Time Great Sports Pranks, Including Glasses Stolen From Joe Paterno Statue
FanIQ Blog — The glasses were stolen off of the Joe Paterno statue outside of Beaver Stadium at Penn State. It happened sometime around January 2, and PSU police are very interested in finding out who pulled it off... literally. Stealing the spectacles from a senior citizen's statue is certainly a spectacular scheme, but how does it stack up against some of the greatest sports pranks of all time? Let's find out: Brett Favre Stinks Well, maybe not Favre himself. But his prank stunk pretty badly, according to Jets teammates. Favre dumped some ...

A Pitch for Kyle Kendrick
The Good Phight — Each of the four candidates for that last spot in the Phillies' starting rotation offers a pretty interesting baseball story. J.A. Happ, the rookie left-hander who probably starts camp as the front-runner for the job, looks like a power pitcher at six and a half feet tall, but his style of setting up hitters with location and deception rather than blowing them away is more suggestive of the Northwestern University grad he is. Chan Ho Park, the team's big offseason addition on the pitching side, carries the stigma of having signed one of the worst contracts in baseball history but took a first stride toward redemption with a big season for the ...

Kyle Kendrick is struggling
3:10 to Joba — Pretty badly too, even by Spring Training standards. Take it away, MLB.com. Kendrick allowed 10 hits, eight runs, one walk, two home runs and one balk in three-plus innings in a 12-10 loss to the Braves in a Grapefruit League game at Bright House Field. Kendrick is 1-1 with a 14.29 ERA in two Grapefruit League starts. That does not include the four runs he allowed in 2 2/3 innings last Thursday in an exhibition against Team USA, when he allowed his emotions to get the best of him. "[Kendrick's] probably got three more whacks at it," pitching coach Rich Dubee said. Kendrick has three more whacks ...

A little housekeeping
The Blue Jay Hunter — Tommy Boy - House Keeping Scene As you can probably tell by now, there have been a few changes and a little site housekeeping here at The Blue Jay Hunter. I am proud to become the latest member of TheScore.com Sports Federation, along the likes of Drunk Jays Fans, Ghostrunner on First, Sports and the City, and Mop Up Duty (basically, people who know way more about baseball than I do). Also, in an order to cut down on precious keystrokes, you can now visit www.bluejayhunter.com to get here. That's a total savings of ...

Phillies’ Kyle Kendrick to Wed ‘Survivor’ Survivor
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Things are finally looking up for Kyle Kendrick . You may remember the Phillies pitcher as the victim of a team-wide prank where he was told he was being traded to Japan . And also you might recall how Kendrick admitted to being a big Backstreet Boys fan . Well, it’s all turning around for Kyle now, buddy boy! Kyle Kendrick Stephenie LaGrossa Okay, so Kendrick is currently stuck in Triple-A, pitching for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. But he only gave up five hits in his last start last Thursday in a win against the Rochester Red Wings. But more importantly, Kyle’s about to become an honest man, as he’s getting ...