Rant Week is Now Underway! Rant 1: FJM: The Mets Suck. Why Can’t Everyone Understand That?

This post marks the beginning of “Rant Week” here at Usually Useless, which is all leading up to a big week next week, as well. I came up with roughly ten things that really pissed me off over the weekend, and will rant about them all this week. First up, from the Associated Press, I [...]

Phillies Leading AL East

Yesterday, I wrote the first post in a recurring segment called, “Great Mistakes in Journalism History.” A South Florida newspaper had a Brewers-Marlins box score from their series over the weekend against the Phillies. Well, the Phillies showed up in another great journalism error. But this time, your Worldwide Leader made the mistake. In the preview [...]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Forgets Who Marlins Are Playing

As you can tell, this is the box score from Friday night’s marathon 5-hour game that was featured in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Sunday. Do you see any mistakes conveniently boxed in red for you? What’s that? The Marlins played the Philadelphia “Brewers” on Friday night? Is this a softball game? Did the Publix [...]

Top Two: July 20th, 2009

This is a new twice-daily feature I’m starting over here today, in my effort to both cover more news and cover more in one post. The morning version, “The First Five,” will cover the five biggest stories from the night before. In the evening version, “The Final Five,” I will cover the five biggest stories from that [...]

The One Where Chase Utley Gets Us All Some Sleep Despite Brad Lidge’s Best Efforts

You know, that has always been my favorite Friends episode. But on the actual game…
The Phils won what felt like the longest in the history of sport, a game that included a 78-minute rain delay and 3 extra innings. The actual game lasted a total of 4:05, and from first pitch to last, took up 5:23 [...]