spring training

Florida's Go-To Stadium Economist Is A Hack, A Shill, And Also Not An Economist

If you are even a casual Deadspin reader, you know a couple of truths: Stadiums and arenas provide little-to-no economic benefit to their communities, and studies written to support public funding for stadiums and arenas are almost universally bogus. Tampa CBS-affiliate WTSP found a frightening collision of these two…

Everybody Hits The Deck As Bees Swarm Spring Training Game

The above is a snapshot from today’s spring training matchup between the Rockies and the Padres. What, pray tell, is going on here? A terrible game of hide and seek? A few guys choosing a weird time to practice their “stop, drop and roll” skills? Nope. Just a good old-fashioned swarm of bees:

Asdrubal Cabrera Got Ejected While Running To First

Spring training is a long, monotonous motherfucker, and playing meaningless games day after day appears can fry the patience of players and umps alike. During the fourth inning of a game between the Mets and the Nationals this afternoon, Asdrubal Cabera managed to get himself ejected in the middle of legging out a…

Blue Jays Pitcher T.J. House Leaves Field In Ambulance After Being Hit By Line Drive

A spring training game between the Blue Jays and Tigers was called off in the bottom of the ninth after Jays pitcher T.J. House left the field in an ambulance.

Of Course Tim Tebow Knows Where The Dang On-Deck Circle Is

So poor lil Tim Tebow, the world-famous football refugee and circumcision doer now trying his hand at baseball, prepared for his first spring-training plate appearance for the New York Mets yesterday by doddering all the way around behind home plate, from the third-base dugout to the first-base side, to take his…

Here Is A Thing That Happened In Tim Tebow's Spring Training Debut

At the start of the bottom of the third inning, New York Mets designated hitter Tim Tebow left the dugout to get some warm-up swings in before stepping into the box. But, strangely, he walked all the way around behind the plate—from the Mets dugout on the third-base side to the on-deck circle in front of the visitors’…

Spring Training Is Good

One of my midlevel life regrets is that I’ve never gotten to Florida or Arizona for Spring Training, because it seems like it offers the things I like most about live baseball: Sitting outside in nice weather, eating and drinking, and just absorbing the entire sensory experience—the smells, the sounds—without…

Mets Prospect Makes Incredible Nonchalant Catch Of Flying Bat

This is…maybe the coolest thing I’ve ever seen a human being do?

Spring Training Can Be Rough, Folks

This Astros-Tigers game is not being broadcasted and there sadly do not appear to be any beat reporters who were interested in taking cell phone videos, so we instead are left to imagine just how terribly Edison Frias must have telegraphed that he was trying to intentionally hit Miguel Cabrera in order to get ejected…

Aaron Judge Gives Us Our First Massive Dong Of 2017

Yankees prospect Aaron Judge welcomed us to spring by absolutely crushing a pitch off the scoreboard in Tampa. Thank you, baseball, for making us feel alive again.

Apropos Of Nothing, Here's Chris Sale In A Red Sox Outfit

Courtesy of the Boston Globe’s Pete Abraham, on Twitter: