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Jingu Stadium Ballpark Beer Review
“Nama biru” is Japanese for “draft beer.” Go to Jingu Stadium in Tokyo for a game — it’ll cost you half as much as the Tokyo Dome, and you’ll get to see the same game. You know what will stick with...
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Spotted: Picture of Cubs Fan
Last night I was drinking in a bar in Chicago, mostly because drinking in a bar in Chicago is what sustains me and allows me to suffer existence. So I was drinking a selection of German lagers when I...
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Baseball Teams and Their Fellow-Traveling Beers
Today’s billet-doux pairs for us, the made-love-to readers, base-and-ball squads with representative cans and bottles of wholesome, nutritious alcohol. In some cases (pun!), of course, there’s room for...
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The Next Big Thing
Felix Cortez Reyes Sarris was born yesterday afternoon. Now all eight-pounds-plus of him is barreling towards a career squaring the barrel or barreling the best. Or not, of course. Whichever sport he...
View ArticleBallpark Beer Review: Citi Field
I left New York for California in the summer of 2010, and though New York City is the best city I’ve ever lived in (compared to Negril, Hamburg, Atlanta, Mountain City (population 2500ish), Vero Beach,...
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GIF: Matt Cain Is a Horse
Mike Krukow: Seabiscuit likes beer, I didn’t know that. Duane Kuiper: The guys in the truck say it’s obvious: Cain is a horse. Mike Krukow: That was… ah. Duane Kuiper: [laughs] Mike Krukow: Ahh. I...
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The Best Bar in Baseball
Brawlin’ Bartender. Dayn Perry did a all-drinkers team, and I’ve done an all-ugly team, but there’s one team in between the two that deserves mention. It’s the cast of characters on the beer-league...
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Ballpark Beer Review: Dodger Stadium
Depending on your goals, Dodger Stadium is either a boom or a bust from a beer perspective. If you are looking to alter your experience through the use of a society-approved liquid drug, then the...
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A Strange Baseball Brew
The Hillsboro team in Oregon needed a team name. They were in Oregon, a “proud agricultural” state that produced the second-most hops in America — it was obvious. The Hillsboro Hops will begin play in...
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Young Ryan Theriot
The name on Young Ryan Theriot’s fake ID reads, “Fraternity Paddle Made Man.” “Are you the quarterback?” Angel Boudreux once asked Young Ryan Theriot. No, I play baseball, Young Ryan Theriot started...
View ArticleIntroducing Beers Above Replacement
We took sabermetrics to the streets this week, and tried it out with concerts. But the ‘readily available’ or ‘replacement-level’ concert is woefully hard to define. Beer? Not so much. Go to your local...
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Boileryard Clarke Endorses “Four Loko”
Those concerned about creeping Maoism will recall that Four Loko — the drink that helpfully combined restorative caffeine with mind-clearing alcohol — was banned by the meddlesome crypto-Etruscans at...
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A Beer And A Ballplayer: Pliny the Younger
This author recently made The Pliny Pilgrimmage, which is to say he woke up early, drove two hours north, and waited in line for an hour for a beer (Pliny the Younger) on a Tuesday morning. Given this...
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How to Tell if a Beer Is Made of Honor
How can one tell if a refreshing can of alcohol is made not only of hops, barley and melted snow from Valley Forge but also honor itself? Reach for a can of Narragansett Beer, the one with the...
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A Team Full Of Beers: Eno’s BeerGraphy NotGraphantasy Club
Today, we launched a beer website, a family member for FanGraphs: BeerGraphs. On that site, we hope to ruin beer with spreadsheets much like FanGraphs ruined baseball. But we hope to celebrate beer,...
View ArticleSuds and Studs: A Different Kind of All-Star Team
The best and brightest in baseball players are headed to CitiField today to represent their teams and battle for home field advantage. What this post wonders is what it would look like if it were beers...
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On the Unintended Consequences of Hack Wilson’s Gut
I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of Mickey Kefauver’s forthcoming biography of Hack Wilson, The Aching Beauty of an American Sot. Kefauver’s work contains multitudes, and among those...
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Going to Puebla to Watch Baseball
The Diablos Rojos del México play in a fairly crappy ballpark. It’s way too big for the team’s fan base, and the only game that gets near to selling out is the home opener. So it’s nice to go to other...
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You first notice it during the top of the fifth inning. Don’t wanna break the seal. You wait. Then your buddy brings you another beer. Let’s say it’s, I dunno, something like a Mac & Jack African...
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Walking Around Nápoles
I was stuck for an idea. I’ve got a folder on my desktop called NotGraphs Stuff, with a bunch of half-finished/half-arsed ideas that may or may not end up being used now that NotGraphs is in the...
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