The Gold Glove is one of the most prestigious awards in baseball. 18 awards are handed out each season to the best player in their position in both the National and American leagues. Winners are voted on by league managers and coaches. Today it was announced White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle has won his second Golden Glove for AL pitcher, the problem is it wasn’t the MLB who announced it. Instead, Buehrle’s wife, Jamie Buehrle took to her Facebook to deliver the news. In a Facebook status Buehrle wrote, “So proud of my husband. He is now a Two time gold glove winner!!!”
The MLB is scheduled to announce the 2010 Gold Glove winners Tuesday and Wednesday, well at least we’ll find out the other 17 winners.
Props to my employers the Chicago Tribune for breaking this story 
& keep on chasing Jamie!
Sportress of Blogitude (who has now featured thejerseychaser.com on it’s blog links twice) posted this hilarious picture of the Washington Redskins cheerleaders wearing team jackets with Redskins misspelled. The varsity style jackets though trendy spell their team mascot “Redsikn.” If you ever have any doubts of your political leaders in our nation’s capital, just turn to the city’s sports teams for reassurance.
During Sunday’s NFL games, fans were left at the edge of their seats as they watched a close game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with the Falcons ultimately winning 27-21.
But now there are accusations the Falcons cheated, and they purposely sabotaged the radio headsets between QB Josh Freeman and the Bucs coaching staff. Late in the 4th quarter, the Buccaneers had a chance to take the lead where they were in touchdown position at the fourth yard line. At 3rd and three, Freeman lost communication on his radio headset and did not know which play the coaches wanted him to call. Freeman was forced to call a timeout and failed to score a touchdown on 4th down.
Now Bucs writer Rick Stroud is reporting that Tampa Bay suspects foul play. Stroud tweeted: “Bucs coach Raheem Morris says the coach to QB radio ‘mysteriously,’ went off in ATL after one play near the goal line, forcing a timeout.” I don’t doubt the truth of his allegation based on what we saw.”
Back in 2007, the New England Patriots were caught video taping New York Jets practices in what was dubbed Spygate. During the NFL’s investigation, there were also allegations the Patriots tampered with the visiting opponents’ headsets to cut off communication. The headsets are controlled by the home team and seems plausible but shady.
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