Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes and clips and puts it all in perspective. I remember when my dad took me to one of my first games at Fenway (I grew up in Boston, and I promise I won't go on about it like your other Boston friends), Oil Can Boyd was pitching, and my dad said "You'll like this guy! He's crazy!" Which was true. Oil Can danced on the mound. He was nuts. Oil Can was my hero for a long time. Oil Can's eccentric predecessor, Bill Lee, was a little before my time but he would often provide color commentary for baseball news shows, and so I'd watch him say completely out there stuff, and I wished I had grown up on him, too. Athletes are not typically known for being eccentric, but baseball pitchers are the weirdos of sport,...
- 8/1/2016
- by Jon Davis
- Hitfix
So, this is actually happening -- Roger Clemens in a real life pitching duel with Oil Can Boyd ... in a real life baseball game ... in the year 2015. It's all going down in the Men's Senior Baseball League -- 50 and over division -- in Tempe, Arizona. Both Roger's Houston Old Stars and Oil Can's Boston Wolf Pack beat a bunch of other old guys from around the country to play in the World Series tonight ... 26 years...
- 10/20/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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