Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
T-ball is organized chaos. Our league throws the players a couple of pitches before placing it on the tee if the player has difficulty. In the meantime, a thousand different things are happening at once. Someone is always picking a flower. Someone is always playing in the dirt. Someone is [...]
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
This is great. Game six of the 1986 world series re-enacted in the old RBI Baseball video game.
I wonder if they'll re-enact this movie next.
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Many of you Orioles fans will remember Jeffrey Maier, the 12 year old who helped the Yankees defeat the O's in a 1997 playoff series when he pulled a Derek Jeter hit into the stands for a homerun. Turns out that Maier has turned into a pretty good ballplayer in his own right.
Pretty interesting [...]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Lucky son of a gun.
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Goodness, I'm listening to Vin Scully announce a baseball game for the first time this year. The man is a national treasure.
Life is good.
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
The long, hard winter is over. Let us all rejoice.
Baseball is back.
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
If you want to know what I think about this latest hubbub over steroids in baseball, this guy says exactly what I've been thinking. It's all pointless.
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Great entries this week, folks. It was very difficult to pic a winner for this pic:
And the winner is:
Though the size of Bonzo’s strike zone seemed ideal, he was often evicted from games for flinging feces at the umpire.
-Comment by Rodney Dill
Nice one.
-Honorable mentions:
Toby tried to break out of his slump by [...]
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
I just received a couple of items from Amazon, and I'm pretty excited about both of them:
--Baseball Prospectus. I've gotten this book for the last six years, and there isn't a better baseball annual on the market. Fantastic. I can't wait to dig into it.
--The Complete Third Season of NewsRadio. If [...]
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
As opening day nears, we just gotta have a baseball theme. Submit your best for this pic:
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
I like the looks of this proposed new stadium for the Washington Nationals. How they're going to pay for it is another question entirely.
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
Oh, my goodness. I have to have one of these.
I can already tell you one of the minor league stadiums I'll be traveling to this year.
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Alton needs a photoshop expert to help with his banner for the Virginia Blog Carnival.
Also, here is proof that he knows how to get a link from me: make a post about baseball and connect it to Virginia. Good stuff.
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
This is sad news:
Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, the buoyant, barrel-shaped outfielder with the perpetual smile who led the Minnesota Twins to two World Series titles in a five-year span, died Monday at an Arizona hospital.
Puckett, whose weight gain in recent years had concerned friends and former teammates, died after suffering a stroke early Sunday [...]
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
Until the majors and minors begin their seasons, I'm content to enjoy college baseball. I mentioned the other day that I took in an inning or two of a UVa-Wise game this week; today, I saw the second game of Wise's doubleheader with King College. Lots of fun, and UVa-Wise looks to have [...]
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
With temperatures in the sixties today, my baseball fever got a little worse. Today it was college baseball, as UVa-Wise played a double-header against Alice Lloyd College. After work, I headed out to Stallard Field to catch an inning or two at the end of the double-header (and to test out my new [...]
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
American Idol, indeed.
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
I don't know if spots are still available, but Virginia Centrist is hosting a Virginia Blogger Fantasy Baseball League.
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Because I am so excited that Reds' pitchers and catchers are reporting to Spring Training today, and because my only son is named Casey (and I wouldn't mind if he were a ballplayer), I decided to reprint this classic poem by Ernest Thayer.
Last night, I watched this movie, looked up this player, and [...]
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