Category Archives: baseball

Cy Young Achieves Perfection: Wake-Up Video

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Kyle Anderson

We take baseball very seriously here in the MTV Newsroom. The staff is currently embroiled in a fantasy league, office legend Daniel “Monty” Montalto is about to embark on a pilgrimage to several Midwestern stadiums (wave hello to him, people of Cleveland) and this afternoon several of us plan to be distracted by the daytime [...] Continue reading →

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Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Has A Wicked Knuckler But Needs Some Control

Posted on April 21, 2010 by James Montgomery

If this whole “rock and roll frontman” thing doesn’t work out, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard could totally find work in the bullpen for a major league team. This is because, by his own account, he’s got “a pretty good arm,” and has at least four pitches in his arsenal (and seriously, Mariano Rivera [...] Continue reading →

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All Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Wants Is A Third Baseman

Posted on April 19, 2010 by James Montgomery

We already know that Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard is an avid baseball fan (with above-average arm strength), but we were surprised to learn that he’s also a rather shrewd fantasy tactician, manning “a pretty good” squad that’s positively brimming with talent.
For those not lucky enough to be in his fantasy baseball league, [...] Continue reading →

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‘Jersey Shore’ Comes Home, Will Be Blamed If The Mets Fail

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Kyle Anderson

On Thursday (April 8), the big news finally came down that MTV’s hit show “Jersey Shore” will in fact be coming back to its home in Seaside Heights after a brief sojourn to Miami in the second season. Snooki, the Situation, DJ Pauly D and the rest of the crew will be back on television [...] Continue reading →

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Hank Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth’s Home Run Record: Wake-Up Video

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Kyle Anderson

With the NCAA basketball tournament in the rearview mirror and the NBA and NHL playoffs still a few weeks off, the first two weeks of April belong to major league baseball. The boys of summer are back to hit, run, pitch and catch their way through 162 long afternoons and sweaty summer evenings filled with [...] Continue reading →

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Dr. Dre Turns Up The Volume At Fenway Park

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Kyle Anderson

On Sunday night (April 4), spring officially arrived in the form of baseball. The 2010 Major League Baseball season kicked off in Boston with one of the game’s most storied rivalries. In the first game of the season, the Boston Red Sox topped the New York Yankees by a score of 9-7 in a match-up [...] Continue reading →

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Dodger Matt Kemp Talks Rihanna (And Also Baseball)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by MTV News

By Joel Hanek
Despite the many reports that Matt Kemp and Rihanna are a couple (not to mention many pictures of the pair getting cozy), the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder says the Barbadian singer is just a “good friend.”
In a recent interview with Fox Sports radio station KLAC, Kemp was asked by hosts Chris Myers and [...] Continue reading →

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