Recent Posts Tagged With 'baseball'

• Fantasy For the First Time!

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 16:21 in baseball, fantasy

  I cannot believe I did so, but I signed up to participate in fantasy baseball on ESPN.com. I was watching a show during lunch time that was promoting the leagues and how to draft players and compete. It is all free, so I decided to give it a try. The...

• Competition in the Air

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 11:52 in baseball, competition, ncaa basketball, march madness, spring training

  Right now there is extreme competition going on in at least a couple of realms. One is the NCAA basketball world. March Madness is just beginning and will infect the country for the next three weeks. The jockeying for a place in the 65-team tournamen...

• Pujols & Pedroia

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 17:27 in baseball, mvp

  The most valuable players in the National and American Leagues, respectively, are Albert Pujols and Dustin Pedroia. They are not similar in stature, Pujols is big and powerful, Pedroia is diminutive--physically! But both are intense competitors and t...

• I Got My Taco

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 18:16 in baseball, world series, tacos

  Taco Bell had a promotion going that offered a free taco to everyone in America if someone stole a base in the first game of the World Series. Jason Bartlett of the Rays became a favorite of many fans when he stole second in the game. The give away ...

• Go Rays!

  Posted on Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 at 16:57 in baseball, world series, tampa bay rays

  After the blown seven run lead in the seventh inning of game 5 of the ALCS, I was not sure the young Tampa Bay Rays would be able to hold off the veteran Red Sox. But they did.I have long been a National league fan, and almost always pull for the Nat...

• Network Nightmare?

  Posted on Sunday October 19th, 2008 at 23:03 in baseball, world series, tampa bay rays

  The executives at the networks are probably not very happy about the outcome of the American League Championship Series. No doubt they would rather have had the Red Sox in the World Series. But the previously lowly Tampa Bay Rays have upstaged the So...

• Infuriating!

  Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 15:46 in TV, baseball, mlb playoffs

  Since 1998 I have hated the staggered playoff schedule that has, until this year been limited to the first round of the baseball playoffs. That year the Astros played the Padres in the first round and lost to Kevin Brown. Because of the extra day off...

• Evacuate or Go To The Ball Game?

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 09:21 in baseball, astros baseball

  I have tickets to the games scheduled for Minute Maid Park tonight and tomorrow night. But Hurricane Ike is heading toward us and I live in Galveston County. The community next to us has been issued an evacuation order because it is in danger from a...

• Group Blogging Experience Topic #27--Music

  Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 21:59 in baseball

  This is my first post as part of the Group Blogging Experience.For those of you unfamiliar with the GBE, it's an informal gathering of minds, led by the utterly brilliant and dedicated Alicia. It works like this: Each week, she recommends a broad top...

• Baseball In the Newspapers!

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 15:55 in baseball, astros baseball

  I was out of the country for a few days in the middle of this month. When I got home I realized one of the reasons I love late February so much. It is because baseball has started!When I opened the newspaper this morning to the sports section, I fo...