The Rookies

(Editor’s note: The US Open gets underway tomorrow at Bethpage Black on Long Island, New York. Resident Rookies golf nerds 310ToJoba and Chilltown, both avid players, took it upon themselves to preview the Open for you, the reader)

The Dark Horse

310ToJoba - Dustin Johnson. While Anthony Kim may have gotten all the attention for making 11 birdies in the second round of The Masters this year, it is important to note that the “other” Johnson put together quite a nice tournament himself. Consider that Johnson made nine less birdies than Kim but still finished only a stroke behind him on the final leader board. Even more striking is the fact that Johnson made 3 less bogeys and the same number of double bogeys as his counterpart. In short, he can be his own sort of scoring machine, as is evidenced by his four eagles in this year’s first major. Read the rest of this entry →

This is my attempt at a “weekly column.” Things for the upcoming sports weekend are ranked according to their merits and the level of interest that they should command from the general viewing public. Calling this a “weekly column” implies that it will happen every week. Rest assured this implication has no bearing and this column has no regular schedule aside from when I stop assaulting my body with alcohol long enough to sit down to write it.

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As was pointed out, pitchers and catchers don’t report to MLB spring training for what seems like a vast eternity. Hey, if your other blog was strictly dedicated to baseball you would be edgy about lack of adequate material too! Therefore, let us continue delving into previews of the teams playing in the grandest series of baseball exhibition games Bud Selig et al. could think up. Today we cover Team Japan.  Writing this post was excessively difficult because not only do all the players look alike (hooray mild jingoism!), their names are also incredibly hard to spell and the spellchecker feature on Wordpress responded by giving me a giant middle finger every time I tried to use it. Anyway, getcha sushi ready.

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Why, hello there.  You may recognize me from here or here but if you don’t, I can hardly blame you. Well, round these parts I am known by my Deadspin ID as 310ToJoba. It appears I may have gotten confused and wandered into the wrong corner of the Internet, but while I’m here I figured I would stay for a little while and Rockabye was nice enough to let me do so. Anyway, a bit about me: I am 20 years old, an undergrad at a school that would probably be ashamed of most of my antics, and I am desperately craving attention, looking for love in all the wrong places,  in possession of an undying love for all sports but specifically baseball. I promise I don’t smell . Well now, introductions aside, let’s cut to the chase.

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