Tag: baseball
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Padres @ Giants, 5/5/15
I got tickets to see San Diego play San Francisco last week, via my wife’s work. It was a last-second, unplanned thing, but my first game of the year, so I went to eat, take a few pictures, and eat. Here’s a quick bulleted list update of the game: I took BART from West Oakland…
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Baseball 2012
I haven’t been writing any posts about baseball this year. Reason being, the wheels fell off the Rockies pretty early in the year, and then things just went from bad to worse. I think I got a few weeks into April before I decided to stop watching, and things got exponentially worse after that. I…
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The Agony of Defeat
I’m so depressed about the baseball season right now. The Rockies have catastrophically failed in almost every aspect, and I don’t foresee it getting much better any time soon. And if they had a bad start, and continued a slump through May, that would be one thing. But they were leading the division — they…
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20 Facts About Baseball You Didn’t Know
1) PNC Park, home to the Pittsburgh Pirates, was built on what was later identified as an American Indian burial ground belonging to the Shelmikedmus nation. Since its construction, the Pirates have not had a winning season. 2) No player in history at the major league level has had the middle name Xavier. 3) During the filming of…
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List: 30 Ways to Reach First Base
Hit a single. Reach on an error. Walk on four balls. Get hit by a pitch. Catcher drops the ball after the third strike. Fan interference. Catcher interference. A pitching infraction that results in a 4th ball. A pitched ball lodges in the catcher or umpire’s mask on the third strike or fourth ball. Replacing…
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9 Tips on Surviving Your Fantasy Baseball Draft
Forget Libya. Forget work. And forget anything you normally ignore, like family, friends, or the federal agents who have been sitting outside your house in an unmarked Crown Vic for two weeks. It’s time for all of us hardcore baseball fans to become obnoxious assholes and statistics wonks and get ready for The Draft. Pitchers and…
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I’m a baseball photographer and didn’t know it
I did not realize this until today (when I was googling my own name), but a bunch of the baseball pictures I have posted on flickr (i.e. over here) are being used by a bunch of wikipedia articles. In fact, several of them are the main image used in the article, which I think is…
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Goodbye Bradley
So Brad Hawpe got let go this morning. What a bummer. I mean, the guy was not doing well statistically, and the Rockies have a deluge of outfielders that are outperforming him, and they need to clear the roster spot to get some kind of pitching relief. But still, it bothers me. Hawpe’s one of…
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Weekend with Bernie (the Brewer)
Last night I booked the big annual pilgrimage to Denver to catch some Rockies baseball at Coors Field. We’ll be going August 12-15th, to catch two of the games in the series against the Brewers, which should be awesome. We’re staying at the Warwick again, which was a pretty decent place, although it’s a little…
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Rockies-Giants
The first Rockies game of the year for me was today, and it looked to be the pitching duel of the year, with two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum versus Colorado’s ace who may be the 2010 Cy Young winner, Ubaldo Jimenez. It didn’t end up that way, but it was still a great game,…