Silverback finally got paid. Who needs free agents when you’re continually locking up the Pro Bowlers that are currently on the roster? 6 years, $51.75 mil. That’ll be a significant raise from his bargain price of $1.2 mil in 2008. Winning AP Defensive Player of the Year will do that, I guess.

…But still lost 2-0. The Jack Wilson-Freddy Sanchez-Adam LaRoche combo gave baseball its first triple play of the season and the Pirates their first since 1993. That’s almost back when we were good! “Most managers are afraid to send the runners with two on and nobody out because of this right here.” Dusty Baker burn.

When you have a minute, please read the touching tribute from my friend Matt at Sharapova’s Thigh. Basbeall pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a car accident, as were two other non-MLBers. Matt’s friend Henry Pearson, pictured above, was one of the two others. Matt took the time to let everyone know about his friend’s […]

Hat tip to Ape and WL for pointing this out, I guess. There’s some website that pictures famous people as zombies. For whatever reason, Ben Roethlisberger made the cut. The Internet is a weird place. The site has little information on it, and everything is in French or something. I haven’t studied French in several years, […]

The Penguins have this rad website up for the playoffs where you can upload pictures of your playoff beard for others to rate while you donate money to the Mario Lemieux Foundation or put a fake beard on your own picture in case you can’t grow one. Beard-A-Thon is totally sick…I saw Mondesi had a mention of […]

Excuse me for not being up to date on the current Texas high school football beat. This happened at the end of March, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it. Steelers NT Casey Hampton recently had his high school jersey retired by the Ball High School Tors, his former team from the Galveston area. […]

Remember when the Buccos were undefeated? Yeah, those good feelings lasted exactly one night. All the positives of the comeback, late-inning win on opening day proved to be nothing more than a one-time affair. Turns out that Pirates fans were sarcastically optimistic after the 1-0 start to the season. And we were right. The Pirates […]

Pens win. Bet you didn’t think it would take til game 80 to clinch a playoff spot. Oh well, we’ll take it any way we can get it. Look out, NHL. Go Pens!

http://youtube.com/watch?v= AXj3h-XIUPs[/youtube] Well now the Madden guys have really started screwing with my head. This video is pretty cool in that announcers Chris Collinsworth and Tom Hammond pretty much gush about Ben Roethlisberger for a good 3 minutes. But then, you gotta remember that the reason they’re endlessly complimenting certain players is because they’re looking for […]

It’s no big mystery that the Pirates get the least of my writing attention at PSAMP. Take the past 16 years of Bucco ball and couple that with a Super Bowl champion football team and a Cup Finals-worthy hockey team, and you can guess where most of the blogging effort goes. But baseball as a […]

We’ve discussed the fanaticism of Pittsburgh fans at great length here at PSAMP. Since I’m a fellow crazed fan, I can’t justify passing judgment on others. However, you know it’s getting to be a little much when babies are showing you just how ridiculous you look when you watch a football game. Take, for example, […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v= aHbmZjr8OI0[/youtube] Jim’s latest episode is here for your enjoyment. The end of the season is coming up quick. Big weekend back-to-back games against the Canes and Panthers over the next few days…hopefully we can solidify our playoff spot come Sunday. We need you Kuuuuuuu….nitz. Go Pens!

http://youtube.com/watch?v= Rsh0vvQ0vuM[/youtube] Oh, so you want to eventually lead the NHL in scoring while making a case for league MVP? Then take a cue from Penguin Evgeni Malkin, whose new stretching home video will get you on your way to achieving that perfect level of hockey-superstar-flexibility. And for only four easy payments of $17.75 (ed: […]

Remember earlier in the week when I confidently stated that Jamie Dixon wasn’t going anywhere? Well, there’s legit reason to worry now. Dixon’s name had come up for the Arizona job ever since it was announced that there would be an opening. Then, Gonzaga’s Mark Few was the leader for the job. Oklahoma’s Jeff Capel’s […]