baseball

Well, sort of betraying them. I know, I know… you’re thinking, “Hold on, this blog has principles?” Don’t be alarmed. We can have fun anyway.

In this blog, I aim to avoid what used to be known as player hating (I’d spell it in the street dialect form, e.g., playa-hatin’, but who am I kidding). I say “used to,” because I suspect the term has passed out of fashion; unfortunately I don’t know what expression may have replaced it. The point is, a fundamental characteristic of our National Miscourse™ is the cheap, lazy rhetorical default of saying that everything sucks. For examples of this, I would reference the vast majority of the blogosphere. Therefore, I strive to remain solidly in the remaining minority of bloggers by devoting a large proportion of my writing to things I want to praise; and when I must indict, always including a thorough reasoning for my disapproval.

Kind of a lengthy preface for link-blogging Dickipedia, a site that made me laugh pretty hard when I found it this morning. It’s a funnier (IMO) offshoot of the comedic news site 23/6, and, it should be noted, not an actual wiki but a parody of one.

I’m not actually issuing the scorn, I’m just linking to it. I admit may be cutting it pretty fine, but Dickipedia is certainly a few cuts above mere player hating: it simultaneously parodies Wikipedia while identifying prominent individuals as the dicks they are with wit and verve. I don’t have a problem with the inclusion of anyone profiled on the site, but this may be because I apparently share the site owners’ politics. I’ll excerpt a non-partisan example just to be on the inclusive side:

William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962, in Dayton, Ohio), is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, one of the preeminent pitchers in Major League Baseball history, an alleged user of steroids and human growth hormone, and a dick.

Clemens has won seven Cy Young Awards. He has also won two World Series championships, one for each banned substance he is alleged to have taken during the same two years he “won” the rings.

Clemens throws and bats right-handed. It is unknown whether he banned-substance-abuses left-buttocked or right-buttocked. His nickname is “the Rocket,” though this is not thought to be connected to the fact that his personal strength coach Brian McNamee, as the Mitchell Report put it, “injected Clemens approximately four times in the buttocks.”

Enjoy the dicks, everyone!