IT’S LEFT-HANDER’S DAY! August 13th that is…
Cheers to a happy, happy day to these pro sports lefties! You da real M.V.P.
Manu Ginobili 🏀
James Harden 🏀
Clayton Kershaw ⚾️
Phil Mickelson ⛳️
Rafael Nadal 🎾
Shaquille O’Neal 🏀
Chris Sale ⚾️
Tim Tebow 🏈
Michael Vick 🏈
Bubba Watson ⛳️
Stay weird my friends.
XOXO,
First Josh Hamilton, and now Mike Napoli.
Oh yeah, Napoli is once again a Texas Ranger. The deal went down last Friday which will send Napoli back to Texas for cash or a player to be named.
This could be huge for Texas. If you can remember, Napoli was a huge contributor to the Rangers during their road to the World Series in 2011. Although they would end up losing to the St. Louis Cardinals, Napoli’s clutch hits did not go unnoticed.
But hey, props to him, because he did what they couldn’t do over at the Red Sox- Won himself a championship and a nice piece of bling in 2013. 💁💍
Nap has said he doesn’t care where he plays back in Texas, he just wants to contribute to the team and help them win. This year he is batting .205, has 13 HR and 40 RBIS.
But what he can bring back to Texas goes beyond the field. Napoli is THAT guy. A leader with playoff and World Series experience. He knows how to fire up his teammates, as well as the stadium with his badass walk up songs.
Globe Life Park in Arlington will be hearing the chants of “NAPOLI” once again.
Love ya Nap, you the BOMB!
So without further a due, we are pleased to introduce you to this week’s MCM: Darrell Miller Jr.!
Miller Jr. is a catcher for the UCLA baseball team. But let’s just say this guy has quite the family background in sports. Miller Jr. is son to former big leaguer Darrell Miller who played for the Angels in the ’80s, and his uncle Reggie Miller and aunt Cheryl Miller are both in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
For those of you who are clearly still going through puberty and don’t know who Reggie Miller is, this is the guy who straight embarrassed the Knicks in the 1995 East Semis by scoring eight points in nine seconds for the Pacers to win the game. But back to Darrell! At 6’2, 220lbs, besides being a total BABE, Miller Jr. is also a total bad ass on the field. Just some of his highlights from the past season include appearing in 55 games, making 53 starts (52 at catcher, one at designated hitter), hitting .257 with 19 runs and 27 RBI. He also has a slugging percentage of .351 and an on-base percentage of .324. Ugh, if you’re baseball girls like us, these numbers (as a redshirt sophomore) just make you swoon! He has even been described by on air announcers as the best batter west of the Mississippi.
Aye, AYE! We’ll be rooting for that cute face next season Mr. Miller Jr.! And somehow I think after this post, we won’t be the only ones! Ladies, meet this week’s TCD MCM…
Darrell Miller Jr.!
Thanks for chatting with us Darrell! You know us TCD gals will be rooting for you in your upcoming seasons and we can’t wait to see you kill it in the bigs! 😉
Until Next Time,
When it comes to TCD, we say Monday’s can’t come soon enough!
Feastyour eyes on this week’s MCM, Matt Gandy! Gandy is a college hunk of a baseballer that’s most definitely easy on the eyes! 😉
Gandy currently plays on Creighton as the team’s catcher and he also has seen the field as a DH, as seen in his photo where he brought in some runs! Prior to Creighton in 2014, Gandy was the starting catcher at Chapman where he batted an impressive .333 average with 35 hits and 31 RBI.
Can you say D-D-D-DAMN?! Gandy was clearly a force to be reckoned with when it came to the plate, closing the season with a (wait for it…) .667 slugging percentage. (JAWDROP)
Did we mention this was all as a sophomore? Plus the guy made the 2015 first team All Big East Tournament team to top it off.
OKAY. WE SEE YOU GANDY! Want to take on any of us TCD girls at the plate? We’d love to hit a homer with you 😉
As always, we give you the fun deets you want to know about these guys aka the questions no other sites ever bother to ask… So let’s give it a go!
Ladies & gentlemen, meet…
MCM: Matt Gandy!
Thanks for chatting with TCD Gandy and stealing our hearts! If you’re ever in town with any of us gals, we’d be glad to endure in your guilty pleasure all day! 😉
Until Next Time,
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IT’S HERE YOU GUYS! The MLB All-Star Game!
I know, some of you may not be as thrilled as me, but since the winner of the game (American League vs National League) gets home field advantage in the World Series, you know I’m praying, wishing and hoping the Astros will be there! THIS IS A BIG DEAL!
Not to mention it’s so much fun! I went in 2011 in Arizona…
And in 2012 in Kansas City…
I mean, how can you not have fun?! All of baseball’s biggest stars are there and boy do they put on a show.
This year’s All-Star game and festivities will be held at the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, home of the Reds.
There will be events going on all weekend, but the good stuff doesn’t start until Sunday.
Sunday 7/12
This is a game played for players in the minor leagues. It allows the greatest prospects to show the world and their team what they’ve got! Some current MLBers who played in this game: Kris Bryant, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and Carlos Correa.
LEGENDS AND CELEBRITY SOFTBALL GAME
Check out former players, rappers, actors and coaches play a little softball. Here’s the roster this year!
I see Snoop D-O-double G on this year’s roster! Can you picture him running the bases?! #LOL.
Monday 7/13
My favorite event! Great hitters hitting bombs. This years contestants are: Todd Frazier, Kris Bryant, Prince Fielder, Albert Pujols, Anthony Arizona, Josh Donaldson, Joc Pederson and Manny Machado.
Tuesday 7/14
Like I said before, these teams have home field advantage in the World Series on the line aka they actually give a s*** if they win or not. Check out the starting lineups:
American League
National League
If you don’t see your favorite player on there, there’s a chance he’s on the reserve list.
There you have it! It’s time to kick back, grab a drink and enjoy some baseball. You know that’s what I’ll be doing!
P.S. GO AMERICAN LEAGUE!
Monday, Monday! And we got another man for you babes to drool over.
Meet this week’s MCM: Nick Wagner!
Here’s another guy that’s just straight up athletic. This 6’3, 210 lb. hunk was drafted out of high school by the Toronto Blue Jays. Wagner then had a change of plans heading to Oregon to play as a punter for the football team. When he realized how little the team actually punts, he went back to baseball.
He transferred to Dominguez Hills where he spent most of his time batting, with an occasional pitching appearance. Lucky him, because Angels scout Dan Cox liked what he saw when he watched Wagner on the mound and invited him to a private tryout.
He hit 95mph. No big deal.
Could he do it again? Sure, why not.
He hit it again at a tryout at Angel Stadium just before the draft.
Needless to say, the Angels spent a 44th-round draft pick and sent him to the Arizona Rookie League, where he proceeded to strike out 32 batters in 191/3 innings.
Wagner spent this past fall working on his pitching in instructional league, however the Angels invited him to spring training in the early group, before the reporting day for the rest of the minor leaguers.
We love a man with plenty to say and boy did we get that from Mr. Wagner this week! Check out all the elaborate responses Wagner had for all our questions! He even hand-wrote them all out for us in his notebook! From the his crush on a childhood fave to admitting to being a total softy (awww), this is a MCM you don’t want to miss out on reading!
MCM: Nick Wagner!
Thanks for being TCD’s MCM this week Nicky boy! We’ll be rooting for ya!
Until Next Time,
Mr. 3,000.
I’m not talking about Stan Ross (played by Bernie Mac), although that was a great movie. I’m talking about Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. On June 19th, Rodriguez became a member of the 3,000 hit club when he blasted a solo home run off of Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander in the first inning.
CHILLSSSSS! Think about what the announcer just said in the video above. Over 18,000 men to play professional baseball and only 29 are a part of this club. Pretty elite, right?!
A-Rod’s name will now go on a list with big names like Rod Carew (3,053), Ricky Henderson (3,055), Cal Ripken (3,184), Willie Mays (3,283), Derek Jeter (3,465), Hank Aaron (3,771) and the famous cheater Pete Rose (4,256).
Let’s talk about cheating real quick.
Everyone thinks about that word when they think about A-Rod– kind of hard not too.
If you can remember back in 2009, Rodriguez held a press conference and admitted to using PED’s. He apologized and asked for forgiveness. He went on to set records and even win the World Series in 2009.
But like they say, once a cheater always a cheater. In 2014, A-Rod was suspended the ENTIRE season for his involvement with Anthony Bosch and the biogenesis scandal.
Well, he suffered the consequences so I’ll leave the man alone, especially since fellow MLB players are still letting him have it.
So where does A-Rod go from here?
Well, he is certainly not slowing down his pace. Almost all fans thought his year suspension would be the beginning to the end of his career. I mean, after all he is pushing 40 years old. But boy were those A-Rod haters wrong.
Rodriguez is a true leader on his team with 69 hits, 15 HR and 44 RBIs. He even has a couple more years with the Yankees. In December of 2007, he signed a 10 year, 275 million dollar deal with them.
He is even up for an ESPY award this July.
Well, keep doing what you do A-Rod – the baseball thing, not the cheating thing.
Pablo Sandoval aka “Panda”, the home run hitting, always smiling, large teddy bear of a third basemen for the struggling Boston Red Sox (sorry Red Sox fans) was benched for liking photos on Instagram during a game, while using the bathroom.
Jimmy Fallon hit it dead on after the instagram fiasco, “One, Two, Three Likes you’re out of the ball game!” YES JIMMY FALLON. YES.
Now I for one can understand how addicting Insta is- a quick double tap in the bathroom, no harm no foul right? WRONG.
Sandoval had to make a public apology to the team, the fans, the general manager, and has been a laughable topic of conversation on Boston sports radio shows and talk shows all week.
People even investigated the time stamp of the likes (approximately 9:20pm) while the Red Sox were batting in the seventh inning aka with Pablo due up in six batters. I now understand why this can be a bad look, not looking invested in the game and could have something to do with the “lax, laid back” vibe that Boston ownership and John Farrell are currently running over there at Yawkey Way.
Which photos did he like you ask? @diva_legacy an Atlanta based woman, and two of her “selfies”.
Barstool Sports’ Jarred Carrabis via twitter first reported the in game slacking.
And Carrabis kept going…
Still going…
And the FINALE of just, YES.
It’s okay Panda, we understand the insta struggle and addiction. Sometimes you just gotta go like a couple selfies on insta… But from now on during games, just keep doing you on the FIELD and not on INSTAGRAM. 😉
– Morgan
The Coaches' Daughters 
