Video - Royals OF Joey Gathright goes Car Jumping - YouTube

Car Jumping Translates Into Baseball Skills…..Right?
Tampa Bay Rays — As a newcomer to the Rays family, I admit that my past history concerning Tampa Bay’s franchise consists on what I watched on television or anecdotes that were mentioned in the news. While I follow them exclusively now, most of the information I remember from the past has to do with special situations or players that stick in your mind. That leads me to the case of former Rays outfielder Joey Gathright, who was traded in 2006 for current Tampa Bay pitcher JP Howell. Gathright was the definition of raw athlete, a slap hitter whose world class speed made scouts salivate. Far from a complete product, the diminutive left-handed hitter never quite turned into ...

Should You Draft Joey Gathright?
Fantasy Phenoms — Beyond The Box Score's R.J. Anderson is our go-to guy for all things Tampa Bay Rays, as well as some of the best outside-of-the-box statistics you can find. Going even further "Beyond The Box Score," R.J. let me in on the former Ray and current Royals' training secret. We all know that he is as fast as they come, but his overall output is low, making him solely an emergency steals guy. But wouldn't you want to consider drafting a guy who can do this??!! ...

Joey Gathright jumps OVER Dodger pitcher, Video
NESW Sports, Sports Videos — Joey Gathright jumps OVER Dodger pitcher, Video. This is an amazing play. Joey Gathright shows us all that baseball players are athletes, during a spring training game. I wonder how high we would have jumped if he was in mid season form? The funny thing is that the pitcher is a dodger but Joey is doing the dodging. That is comedy GOLD Joey also likes to go Car Jumping! ...

Opening Day… Technically
crashburnalley.com — Opening Day… Technically March 25th, 2008 Posted in Sabermetrics , Philadelphia Phillies , MLB Despite the countdown at the top right of Crashburn Alley, the Major League Baseball season officially started at 6 A.M. when the Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox duked it out in front of nearly 45,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome. If you were sleeping or working and couldn’t catch the game, you missed a doozy. Before I begin my recap of the game, I just have to vent and say that I just have a strong disliking of ESPN’s broadcasters. I’m sure some of it is irrational, but it was so annoying to watch the game this morning because at the end of ...

Joey Gathright Jumps Over Hiroki Kuroda
Baseball Digest Daily — After seeing this video of Kansas City Royals outfielder Joey Gathright jump over a Japanese car: I thought it would be enough...but no. Now he has to jump over Japanese baseball players: Huge thanks to our friends at Rays Anatomy , especially Eric SanInocencio !

Joey Gathright Will Jump Over Pitchers, Cars With Ease
FanIQ Blog — Joey Gathright may not be known as an exceptional hitter, but the Royals outfielder is one thing above all else: a tremendous athlete. After the Royals starting center fielder David DeJesus went down with an injury, Gathright stepped into his place and knocked down three hits (amazing by itself), one of which came in quite spectacular fashion. Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda stood in his way trying to retrieve the baseball, so Joey just went ahead and jumped over him. The last time Gathright displayed his leaping ability ... jumping over a car several years ago in a random parking lot. Yes, ...

Royals Player Jumps Over Japanese Man With Ease
The Sporting Blog — By Chris Mottram Sadly for Joey Gathright, he's more well known for jumping completely over mid-sized automobiles than he is for playing baseball. During spring training yesterday, he put those skills to use in a (meaningless) game: Hmmm, why does this look familar? Ah yes, Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda is the new Greg Paulus. In case you'd forgotten, Paulus has received a similar man-bits-to-the-top-of-the-head treatment from both Deron Washington and Danny Green . Note: Please excuse my unsolicited Duke hate. (First seen on Fan IQ , although I done chopped up a slightly higher quality Red Lasso clip of it.)

Joey Gathright Can Leap Over Tall Buildings
MVN Outsider — As you may remember, a video of Kansas City outfielder Joey Gathright jumping over cars was posted on YouTube roughly a year ago. The video was filmed in 2002, and at that time, he would only have been about 21-years-old. Well, nearly six years have passed since then, but Gathright certainly hasn’t lost his leaping ability with his older age. In a spring training game between the Dodgers and Royals, Gathright was brought off the bench to replace Kansas City’s starting center fielder, David DeJesus. Facing Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, Gathright knocked a chopper down the first base line that was fielded by Kuroda. The pitcher ended up ...

Joey Gathright Not Only Jumps People, He Jumps Cars
AwfulAnnouncing — I'd love to see a jump off between Adrian Wilson and Joey Gathright. Yesterday in the links I had a clip of Gathright jumping over a pitcher trying to make a tag along the first base line. This clip is from 2007 but the dude is jumping cars.... I remember watching a timed run from Gathright once and he got from home to third in about 9 seconds. The kid is ridiculous. Joey Gathright Can Also Jump Over Cars (Real Clear Sports)

Joey Gathright is amazing (You Tube link)
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — Baseball Primer Newsblog —The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Joey Gathright is amazing (You Tube link) Last season, this video of him jumping a car came out. I never thought he’d use that skill in a game. Jimmy P Posted: March 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM | 1 comment(s) Related News: General Reader Comments and Retorts Go to end of page Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy . Please report any inappropriate ...

Joey Gathright is Amazing, Part II
Empty the Bench — Yowzers. This is probably the most athletic play we’re going to see on the basepaths this season. Note how the act of jumping over a human being doesn’t even slow him down when he touches down. Joey is such an exciting player, a freak on the basepaths and able to cover so much ground in the outfield, and I’d like to see more of him. That .266 career batting average has prevented him from reaching 80 games in any season so far, but with a .307 BA and .371 OBP in 74 games last year perhaps we’ll be seeing the 26-year-old do more of this in 2008: We ...

2008 Kansas City Royal Preview
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine — Joey Gathright is on the Royals and you know what that means! That's right, the one and only Joey Gathright can JUMP OVER A CAR! But really, besides being pretty cool to watch, there isn't a whole lot of benefit that one gets on the baseball field from doing this. Or is there? Check this out. Now that that's out of the way, where are the Royals? In last year's preview I wrote that the Royals would probably make some progress (71 wins) but still finish in the basement of the AL Central. And they did finish in last place and improve (from 62 to 69 wins). While not a win total you would normally get excited ...

If Only There Was Video Footage Of Buddy Bell Trying The Same Stunt
Can't Stop The Bleeding — circa 2002, Royals OF Joey Gaithright proved he’s got greater claim to fame than having his ass kicked by Julian Tavarez. (video link from Baseball Think Factory)

Outfielder Leaps Player, Sedans In A Single Bound
SPORTSbyBROOKS — By now you’ve probably already seen this video of Royals outfielder Joey Gathwright jumping over Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda : And you might’ve seen Gathright jump over a sedan in a parking lot. But in case you haven’t, hear you go: Incidentally, Gathright was recently selected by Royals’ legend George Brett as having the best Spring Training of any KC player ...

Say hello to Willie Mays Hayes!
Wax Heaven — Joey Gathright may run like Mays, but he hits like shit.

If He Could Only Hit
Sportable.com — Royals outfielder Joey Gathright has never started a full season in the Majors. His inconsistencies at the plate have raised questions about his offensive abilities. What shouldn’t be questioned is his athleticism. While most of us are out hanging with friends playing poker or watching a movie, Gathright is in parking lots jumping cars. Yes, you read that right. This is freakish…. ...

Kobe vs. Gathright
Obscure Sports Quarterly — A friend just pointed me to this video of Kobe Bryant jumping really high right by a moving car. I say jumping right by a moving car, not over, because at 0:33 into the clip, it looks like the car is passing just to the side of Kobe, so while still dangerous, not nearly as dangerous as Kobe jumping directly over the car. ...

Joey Gathright Has Some Jumping Competition
Intentional Foul — In one of the more memorable plays of this young MLB Baseball season, Joey Gathright gave us a choice highlight by jumping over a Dodgers pitcher to avoid being tagged out. We’d like to give you a refresher on the play by showing you the video, but since the MLB is pretty damn stingy with their highlights (yeah, because free advertising is costing you all billions), we’ll settle for this nifty reenactment. Just in case you need an example of Gathright’s ability, here he is jumping over a car. For real (TAKE THAT, KOBE). ...

Advance Scout: Royals, April 25-27
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine — Four game losing streak? Last place? Adam Lind trapped in purgatory? Oh yeah? You think that's bad? Remember when I auditioned to be David Hasselhoff's car? 'Cause for the Royals, it's even worse than that. They're on a seven-game slide that has rocketed them past Detroit into the AL Central cellar. They're allowing 4.68 runs a game, which is OK, but they're averaging 3.18 on offense, which is - I mean it's better than the Giants, but the Royals are doing it with the benefit of a DH who just happens to be one of their few non-struggling hitters, Billy Butler. They have six regulars OPSing below .660, five if David DeJesus starts over ...

Advance Scout, Royals, May 23-26
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine — The Royals bring their league worst (by a hair) offense to town for a four game set having lost four straight. The Jays will seek to capitalize, and potentially crack the elusive .500 barrier. On to the Advance Scout! Now turn around, it's burning down The city we live in Should we mumble lies? Take them by surprise? Let them have their way with us? The Royals are basically the type of team that the Jays should and can beat - they can hardly hit a lick (and got no-hit the other day) and have been struggling of late. They are the type of team that good teams can sweep, like the Red Sox, for example. May is always to early for ...

Back in Black! Yankees move a game over .500
Sox and Pinstripes | Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees – The Greatest Rivalry in Baseball — The critics weren't happy with beating Kansas City by one run in dramatic fashion yesterday, so the Yankees used their seventh comeback in eight games to beat the Royals, 6-3 today. Joba Chamberlain's followup to his debut was an improvement, but suggested he's battling to find the balance between aggressive and overly aggressive. In his first start, ...

Leapin' Lizards
My Pinstripes — Somehow we never saw this video until this past weekend. They showed it a couple of times during the Yankees-Royals games on Saturday and Sunday. During Spring Training, Joey Gathright leaped over Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kurode while running to 1st Base. ...

I call bullshit
Yellow Chair Sports — A few minutes ago, the colorful, legendary voice of the Chicago White Sox, Ken "the Hawk" Harrelson made--in my estimation--a somewhat dubious claim. He and partner Darrin "D.J." Jackson were discussing the incredible out-of-the-box speed of Royals outfielder Joey Gathright. According to Jackson, Gathright has been clocked at 3.3 seconds to first on a bunt and 3.6 swinging. Pretty fast, huh? Not to be left out, however, Hawk, as is his trademark, invoked the exploits of a player from his playing days--just to make sure none of the viewers would get the crazy idea that players today might be as good, or better, than those of yesteryear. According to ...

Royals and Red Sox Come to Terms
The Outsiders Look at the Insides of Baseball — Sometimes I am guilty of unfairly grading a trade based on the partners that are involved. I'm not referring to any extraordinary biases, nor am I claiming that my judgment is based on anything more then personal speculation. Either way, I am guilty of such. ...

Is the Car Jumper a Cub?
The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog — This is far from being confirmed, but I have found several links saying the recently non-tendered KC Royal, Joey Gathright will be finding his way to the Cubs roster. Apparently a report on WSCR-AM mentioned that he's been signed (around 6pm Monday evening). Carrie Muskat then posted this odd mention of Gathright at Cubs.com. Noting that the 27 year old speedy, no power, lefty hitting OF could be added to the roster soon. She also reminds us that Gathright played for Lou Piniella and stole 20 bases for Tampa in 2005. Finally in an interview with Joe Castellano on XM radio monday night, Cubs superscout Gary Hughes (special assistant to GM ...

Back to Work after the Winter Meetings
ChicagoCubsOnline.com — There are only 15 days remaining in the year and Jim Hendry has quite a bit of work to do. The Cubs GM is still looking for a left-handed bat for the middle of the lineup, maybe a little speed at the top of the lineup....but a comment from Sandy Alderson late Monday could have spelled the end of the Cubs' quest for Jake Peavy. A report also surfaced on Monday night the Cubs were close to signing Joey Gathright, who was recently non-tendered by the Kansas City Royals. According to Cubs.com, Joey Gathright could sign with the Cubs this week and he would ...

Cubs to sign Joey Gathright
straitpinkie.com — WSCR 670 in Chicago is reporting that the Chicago Cubs will sign former Rays and Royals outfielder Joey Gathright. Gathright is a very similar player to Felix Pie (Gathright is probably a better athlete), and he’s a bit older than Felix (Gathright is 28). This makes me wonder if Pie will be traded this offseason even though the Peavy deal is over. Edmonds days in Chicago are officially done, as Gathright seems to be LH side of the CF platoon with Reed Johnson. I also don’t believe this changes anything in the market for a power hitting right fielder (as Gathright is neither of those things). We’ll see what the Cubs plans ultimately are, ...

Joey Gathright Signed By Chicago Cubs. Good, He'll Be Able To Jump Over The Bleachers After Batting .250 In April
The Critical Fanatic — The good news is that the Chicago Cubs were able to identify their biggest need: a leadoff man. The bad news, is they forgot that a leadoff must be actually be able to get on base to have any discernable impact on the game. Sure, Joey Gathright is an entertainingp player with his world-class speed and athleticism, but he's a career .263 hitter. He posted an impressive .254 last season. On the bright side, he'll rarely hit into a double play... which, hey, the Cubs could use a few less in 2009. Based on this YouTube video of Gathright jumping a car, I expect the drunken bleacher creatures (myself included) will tab him as their ...

Cubs sign speedy but power-free car jumper to one-year deal
Big League Stew — When followers of the Cubs put a left-handed outfield bat on their offseason wish, we definitely did not have Joey Gathright, he of the one career homer, in mind. But now that the Cubs have made their biggest free agent "splash" by signing the former Royal to a one-year, $800K deal, it would appear that we Wrigleyvillians will have to make peace with Gathright's strength — namely jumping over automobiles in viral videos. I have to admit, though, that it'll be pretty fun to watch Gathright taking Franklins off stunned Chads after clearing their Beamers outside The Central and ...

Cubs Shore Up Left-Handed Bat (Sort Of), Sign Joey Gathright
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — In the wacky, wild, TOTALLY INSANE world of sports blogs, everyone knows Joey Gathright for this: (Ah, look: a younger, equally dumb me posted about his jumping prowess back in March, too. Simpler times then.) So, we’ve established Joey Gathright has hops. He’s also quite fast, as he’s converted on 74 percent of his steal attempts throughout his career. (These traits sometimes go hand and hand in an athlete’s body, or so I’ve heard.) But, um, can he hit and field and do all that other stuff baseball players need to do too? Well, sort of. But anyways, ...

Why did the Cubs sign Joey Gathright?
OUT OF RIGHT FIELD — If for no other reason, it was to impress the team on road trips and boost morale by doing things like this off the field:

The Week That Was....
The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog — The rest of the world might have been on holidays the last few weeks, but general managar Jim Hendry was busy shuffling the deck chairs on the Cubbie Titanic. Things happened at a rather fast and furious pace last week, so let's revisit with a more in-depth look. What you may have missed while in your drunken egg nog stupor... Cubs Sign Gathright Granted, this was before the holiday break, but it's not like I can let a Cubs move go without commenting. Gathright, as we all know by now, can jump over a car and he can also jump over a pitcher if needed. He'll also take a swing at Julian Taveraz which ...

Walkoff Walk Presents the BONILLA Projection System: Age 28
Walkoff Walk — The last thing the baseballblogosphere needs is another cleverly-named projection system for players. And that's exactly why we at Walkoff Walk decided to add our collective voice to the statistical noise: we're just a bunch of jerks. Introducing the first-ever player projection forecasting system that dispenses with the OBPs and the FIPs, instead deciding to group every single player by age and write something mildly interesting about them. We call it BONILLA, or Based On Nothing Interesting, Let's Look At Age. Click here to check out all the BONILLA age projections. Today, in no particular order, we look at the ...

Cubs OF Joey Gathright goes Car Jumping
Docksquad Sports — Check out newly signed Cubs OF Joey Gathright jumping cars, KOBE STYLE!!! Thanks to Big Manay for sending this video in. Subscribe Now

Free Moustache Rides For Distraught Eagles Fans
Rumors and Rants — Who wins in a Selleck/Celek fight? Who? Brent Celek. You know the second-year Philadelphia Eagles tight end out of Cincinnati. Well, you should have known. I only told you on Friday he was going to blow up in the NFC Championship Game. Sure the Eagles lost, but our boy Brent caught 10 balls, including two for scores (he only scored once during the regular season - I also said the Eagles would win, so I’m still full of shit). Not bad Mr. Celek. Not bad at all. But your team lost. Then there’s Tom Selleck. The ...

Joey Gathright has mad skillz (jumping cars only)
Diamond Hoggers — Here's Joey Gathright in 2002, jumping over an assortment of cars. This is pretty cool, and while the video isn't new; we just saw it for the first time last night. Our next thought would be that while its pretty neat, Gathright might have a lot of time on his hands soon to be jumping over cars. Like March through October kind of time. He's not a very good baseball player. But at least he discovered this Kobe Bryant-like skill.

Cubbies Kick Off 2009
Gear Up For Sports — The Cubbies started off this spring season in the right way, taking down the Dodgers to kick off this 2009 season. Not that beating the Manny-less Dodgers in a meaningless game in Arizona is any sort of redemption for being swept in the playoffs last year, but, it does kick off what should be one hell of a season. With all of the off-season hoopla that went on this winter, let me just recap a few moves, and a few stories that could be big for this year’s squad. A couple of fan favorites won’t be enjoying the friendly confines this season. Kerry Wood will get a new start in Cleveland. I’m sure a lot of people were upset to see him go, but ...

His name ain’t chump, it’s Cody Ransom
River Avenue Blues — Okay, so maybe he’s not leaping a car in a single bound, but Cody Ransom’s got some ups. My sincere hope now is that after Ransom officially beats out Berroa for the utility infielder job, he goes up to him and says: “You see Angel, it’s like this. You either smoke or you get smoked…And you got smoked.” Post from: River Ave. Blues A New York Yankees blog

2009 Player Previews - Joey Gathright
GoatRiders of the Apocalypse — Let me start off this preview by officially welcoming The Human YouTube Reel to the North Side. Yes, I’ve decided to nick name Mr. Joey Gathright “The Human YouTube Reel” because he has all the physical abilities to be a “Human Highlight Reel” except for the lack of any actual statistical production. Watch him jump over a car! Watch him jump over an Asian person! Watch him get a not-so-exciting bunt single while playing for a minor league team, err, the Kansas City Royals! Whatever you do though, don’t look at his stats. While he has been having a decent spring with the Cubs (6 hits in 18 at-bats, 2 RBI, 2 SB), ...

Worried
The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog — I'm worried. I'm worried that our best hitter and best pitcher are two of the most injury-prone players in the game I'm worried that we signed Dempster back before the economy completely tanked, and wound up over-paying. I'm worried that the Dempster overpay caused us to trade away DeRosa, which, I worry, has greatly weakened our bench. And, I worry, has greatly weakened our chemistry, whatever the hell that is. I'm worried that Carlos Marmol will tire of his experiment living amongst humans, and decide to return to his normal, alien form, go back to the mothership, and report to the Martians ...

TAMPA BAY RAYS - ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM
SULLY BASEBALL — I'm almost done with Home Grown vs. Acquired and this has been a wonderful experience for me as a ...

2009 Chicago Cubbies’ Season Outlook : Joey Gathright
straitpinkie.com — We are holding off on our backup catcher outlook to see if any announcement is made. So, as a result we are bringing you likely the last man to make the roster out of Spring, Joey Gathright. Gathright isn’t competing directly with anyone for a roster spot, but the Cubs have to decide whether they want an extra infielder on the roster. If they decide to go that route, Gathright won’t make the club out of camp. However, the Pinkie feels strongly that Gathright will be the Cubs’ late inning defensive replacement/pinch runner and they will do without the extra utility man. Gathright was ...

2009 Cubs Preview
desipio.com — Last summer we watched what we figured was the best Cubs team of our lifetimes. They could pitch, they could hit and they could actually field the baseball (well, not Theriot, but…). They won 97 games. They blew away the NL Central (which, everyone says is a bad division, but of the six NL teams to win 86 games or more, four of them were in the Central). They clinched the division so early that Casey McGehee got plenty of time to prove he’s a terrible baseball player, no matter what Phildo Rogers says. And then, the playoffs started, Ryan Dempster shit the bed with seven walks (SEVEN!) in game one, the defense curled up into the ...

Jose Guillen Is A Bad, Bad Man.
Free Fantasy Magazine — FTW Jose Guillen Is A Bad, Bad Man. Jose Guillen is bound to be one of the more popular pick-ups on Monday after his 4 RBI Sunday afternoon against Scott Baker and the Minnesota Twins. Over the past week, Jose Guillen’s hit .357 with 3 HR and 10 RBI and has seen his Yahoo! ownership increase to 19% — Yes, Jose Guillen is a bad, bad man. If you already know Jose’s enjoyable history, you can skip the next couple paragraphs and go directly to his fantasy analysis. First off, I’ll make this clear: I adore Jose Guillen because you really have no clue what you’re going to get from him. Much like Milton Bradley, another favourite of mine, you could get ...

Friday Night Game Thread: Now with Ryan Freel! Cubs @ Brewers 7:05 ET
A League of Her Own — Our hero. A trade! Hooray! Kind of. . . . There's nothing I like better than having a trade sprung on us (WHAMO!!!!) out of nowhere. It's exicting, fraught with possibilities, and breaks up those long days before a night game. That said, I become immediately less exicted upon hearing that the trade involves the Orioles, populated as they are with washed-up, bad-at-baseball, former Cubs. While that wasn't the case here, I have a hard time getting nce I learned of the Joey Gathright for Ryan Freel trade, even though it seems that Ryan will fit right in, in the worst possible way: avg. 133, obp .350, slg .133, ops .483 ...

Freel Departs From Baltimore Unnoticed
Frost King Baseball — The Orioles apparently traded Ryan Freel to the Cubs for Joey Gathright, with each team paying the salary of the guy they were sending away (so unfortunately the O's didn't shed any payroll). Gathright is a career .262/.327/.303 hitter, but can at least go get 'em in the outfield. The deal at least frees the O's the headache that Freel seemed to be becoming, having complained of little playing time already. And it brings in a guy whose best skill isn't used on the baseball field: As useless players go, I guess Slappy Joe (as he was nicknamed by Royals fans for his 38 extra-base hits in 1,311 career plate appearances) is OK.

WORLDS COLLIDE as the Inbox Mentions the Muskbox
Hire Jim Essian — WORLDS COLLIDE as the Inbox Mentions the Muskbox [image] You know that old adage, “If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you suck”? I have to give credit to Carrie for not sucking today . (HT: James ) Good one, Carrie. We’re one step closing to you fisking one of the Muskboxes, and then I’ll have to fisk that, and we’ll just keep passing the same article back and forth in an eternal struggle that will finally end when we’re crushed by an 80,000-page Muskbox. I can’t wait! The game is afoot ! I can’t understand why manager Lou Piniella babies Harden. I understand the Cubs are concerned with his past arm issues, but can we see him ...

Yardwork: Nate McLouth Implores The Pirates to Feast on it
The Big Lead — Braves 7, Pirates 6 F/15: In his first game against his old team, Nate McLouth did his best to inspire projectile vomit across the city of Pittsburgh, hitting two singles, a home run and stealing second for kicks. Bobby Cox earned his 2,000th win as manager of the Braves and celebrated the milestone by playing leapfrog with old pal Leo Mazzone after the dynamic duo downed four magnums of red wine. Marlins 4, Giants 0: Hurry up and sign Sean West (8 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K) to a lucrative 10-day contract in your fantasy league. Yankees 5, Rays 3: This ...

Send in the Links (8/04/2009)
Outside the Boxscore — It’s that time again for Outside the Boxscore to take a look at what you need to know from the blogosphere and the stuff you might not. Rachel McAdams thinks you should. -> Arena Football is pretty much done (BizJournals.com) -> Mike Vick throws to high school students (NESW Sports) -> Urban Meyer is Recession Proof (No Guts, No Glory) -> A look at the past ten days for the Philadelphia Eagles (Inside the Iggles) -> Roy Jones dresses up as Captain Hook in anticipation for fight in Mississippi (Style Points) -> ...

The A.L. Closer Report: 8/14
FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball — For the purposes of the “Closer Report” (which will be a weekly feature), we’ll place the relief aces in one of three categories: Death Grip (these guys have no chance of relinquishing the closer’s role; think Mo Rivera), In Control (a good chance of continuing to rack up the saves) and Watch Your Back (the set-up man is planning a coup d’etat as we speak). Death Grip Mariano Rivera, Yankees Mo racked up two save in three appearances this week, though he did give up a run against the Blue Jays on August 11th (Edwin Encarnacion hit a homer). The former Red’s round-tripper marked the first time that the ...

Red Sox Acquire Joey Gathright from Orioles
Sports of Boston — The Red Sox may have found their long-sought pinch runner. The Sox sent a player to be named later or cash to the Orioles Saturday for minor league outfielder Joey Gathright. Gathright has absurd speed, and can definitely help a slow Red Sox team (besides speedster Jacoby Ellsbury). Gathright, who was traded to the Orioles in May for Ryan Freel but never played for the major league squad, has a career .262 average with the Rays, Royals, Cubs with 79 career stolen bases. With his speed, Gathright brings no power, as evidenced by his one career home run. You may recall him charging the mound in Spring Training back in 2006 to brawl with former Red Sox ...

At Least The Red Sox Get More Athletic
The Mighty Quinn Media Machine — Today the Red Sox swung a minor deal with the Baltimore Orioles, getting much-traveled outfielder Joey Gathright for two minor leaguers. He's a lifetime .262 hitter and has hit just one career home run in six MLB seasons. But he's an expert at jumping over cars, as this 2002 clip from YouTube can attest to. This is a pretty cool video: ...

September Call-ups
Fenway West - A Boston Red Sox Blog — Brian Anderson and Joey Gathright were called up to the Red Sox as rosters expand. Anderson was the player the Red Sox recieved for Mark Kotsay and has already seen time on the big club. The Red Sox obtained Gathright from the O's. You may remember him as the guy Julian Tavarez fought ...

AaronGleeman.com — Link-O-Rama Quoted for truth: "Chunky escorts rip off intoxicated men." White Sox beat writer Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune took a tour of Target Field while in town this week and snapped some good photos. On the same day that someone introduced me to ...