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We sent our best thoughts and wishes to former umpire Eric Gregg and his family after his
massive stroke yesterday at his home in suburban Philadelphia. Always one of our favorite umpires, he lost his job after the ill-fated umpire walkout of 1999. Like anyone else who went to a Phillies home game in the last few years, we were served concessions at Chickie's and Pete's by Gregg, and he even talked to us for a while. He seemed very sad not to still be umpiring. He even had the good humor when we asked him if he ever ran across Don Denkinger in his former umpiring circles, and, if so, he could punch him in the face. We wish him well.
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Perhaps in response to somewhat famous
Grady's Ladies, the official cheering section for Indians outfielder, these Indians fans, either tongue-in-cheek or not, have dressed themselves as "Mrs. Wickman." They're the official fan club of the portly Indians closer, who is, Grady Sizemore aside,
an extremely handsome man.
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We always find it kind of embarrassing when major sports leagues make conscious efforts to try to cater to the female audience. From our experience, a woman is either a sports fan, or she isn't — you know, like the rest of the human population. League executives tend to think of female sports fans they think of their own wives; sedate, obsessively motherly and easily swayed by the waving of shiny objects. The most famous version of this was the NFL's "NFL For Her" campaign, which intended to teach women the rules of football as if they were an infant — albeit an infant who will cook, when need be, and maybe someday raise a linebacker. (The campaign was so embarassing, it has been deleted from the official league Web site.
Mostly.)
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