Losing the Spirit!
Ouch, this hurts–another city that's losing their beloved baseball team. As a Montrealer, I sympathize big time for fans of the North Shore Spirit, a CAN-AM league baseball team who have called Lynn, MA home for the past five years. Victoria Glidden, 9, did her best to keep the Spirit at Fraser Field. She started [...]
Canada loses yet another baseball team
A year ago, I wrote about the sale of the Ottawa Lynx minor league team. Today, the Lynx are playing what's expected to be their final game in Ottawa (though no official statement has been made about the team's future.) After this, they're rumored to be headed down to Pennsylvania to start their new life [...]
Eric Byrnes is a Deadhead?
Last night I was watching the Pirates/Diamonbacks game on MLB.TV and was surprised to see a large white Steal Your Face with Eric Byrnes' #22 in the middle hoisted up by a fan when Byrnes came up to bat. (I tried to get screenshot but was too slow on the draw.) Being a longtime Deadhead [...]
The swing that changed baseball forever
It's now been a couple of days since Bonds hit #756. I've been reading the blog fallout, and trying to form an educated opinion on the breaking of sports' most revered record. I watched the game on Tuesday, and it was obvious from Bonds' first swing that he was in the groove and would indeed [...]
Being a bobblehead
It's got to be a strange feeling seeing yourself immortalized as a bobblehead doll! I can't say that I've ever really figured our facination with the bobblehead, but it certain seems to have become a bona fide baseball tradition. Major League Baseball started producing bobblehead dolls in 1960. These were papier-mache dolls, one for each [...]
More MLB.TV gripes
Yesterday, I griped about not being able to access MLB.TV and Gameday Audio simultaneously. Today, I have a new round of MLB.TV complaints: Blackout restrictions. Why can't I watch the Jays on MLB.TV? Because I'm on the West Coast, in the Seattle-area market? But there isn't even a Seattle game scheduled for today! The MLB.TV/Gameday [...]
Sexist announcers on MLB.TV
I'm watching the Nationals/Astros game right now on MLB.TV, and the announcers have made a number of comments that made me cringe under the weight of their sexist nature. Who are these guys anyway?? First, they mentioned Alyssa Milano's recent blog post where she says this about Dmitri Young: He isn't built for power. He [...]
Martin informally named Dodgers' leader
Anyone who reads this blog on a semi-regular basis knows that I am a huge fan of Dodgers' catcher (and 2007 All-Star hopeful), Russell Martin. If you have any doubts about this man's huge abilities and sky-high potential, you owe it to yourself to check out this ESPN article and accompanying video. Doesn't this just [...]
Best baseball movies
I just came across an ESPN.com Page 2 feature about the best baseball movies ever made. Now I know baseball is a family game and all, but some of the winners are such fluffy films I'm shocked to find such schlock leading the pack. Field of Dreams was picked as the #1 baseball movie ever [...]
Monte Irvin almost pre-dated Jackie's historic MLB debut
Because of the terrible weather in the Northeast that accompanied the first weeks of the 2007 baseball season, celebrations honoring Jackie Robinson's contributions to both baseball and the breakdown of segregation were being held this past weekend in Boston. Simply put, Robinson's influence on society was huge and this baseball fan isn't really sure why [...]
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