Category: Baseball

500 Home Runs

David Ortiz hit his 500th career home run last night.  Finally, something in this dreadful season for Red Sox fans to celebrate.

Remember when 500 home runs made you a lock for the hall of fame?  I do.  Then steroids happened.  Thanks a ton, steroids.

I want Papi in the hall of fame, I honestly do.  There is just so much working against him.  The steroid link alone will keep him out, at least for a while.  There is also his position.  Despite the 500 home runs and three championships, he’s a designated hitter and no one takes that seriously.  Even without that steroid test he still probably would not have made it in.

Regardless of what happens after he retires, he is the best clutch hitter I’ve ever seen with arguably the best post season resume in baseball history.  Congratulations to David Ortiz on reaching such a huge milestone.

Pedro

The Boston Red Sox have a new hall of famer today. Pedro Martinez. I’ve seen two Red Sox pitchers who were so good it was startling. Pedro and Roger Clemens, and Roger Clemens soiled his reputation with (alleged) steroids.

Pedro is a legend and he is more deserving of induction into the hall of fame than anyone I’ve ever seen with my own eyes.

Hockey Hate

The two NHL teams I hate the most, the New York Rangers and the effin’ jerkwads the Montreal Canadians are both losing in their second round playoff series. Wouldn’t it be something if they both got bounced in the same round.

It wouldn’t make up for the lack of post-season Bruins, but it would be pretty sweet.

Oh, and the Red Sox just took the lead in the bottom of the third.

I’ll enjoy all of this while I can.

Big Leagues

My sister knows someone whose son is a big league pitching prospect.  He was called up to the majors today and could make his debut in tonight’s game.  How cool is that?

I think that by extension this actually brings me one step closer to playing 3rd base and hitting clean up for the Boston Red Sox.  Don’t ask how, just take my word for it.  I totally did the math on this one.

Day Four – Identify Your Audience

Today’s blogging 101 prompt is to identify your target audience, and write a post directed at them.

I’ve been struggling with this idea (well… not really struggling) since I started using Blogger a little more than six years ago. Who was I writing to? Who did I want to read what I wrote? Do I want to pick a specific topic and stick to it?

No. I wanted it to be a source for any stray idea that popped into my pea brain. No topic. If I wanted to post about photography, I would post about photography.
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If I wanted to post about music, I would post about music.

(and hey, did anyone else know you could embed tracks from spotify into wordpress.com posts? I didn’t, but I do now. It’s possible an entire new world of goofiness may have just opened to me)

If I want to post about the Red Sox (I’m seeing a .500 team with an amazing offense and a mediocre pitching staff, and what do you mean Castillo is already injured?) or the Bruins (what do you mean Connolly is already injured?) I will. If I want to post millions of camera phone pictures of my cat acting like a lazy asshole, then I will.

What it comes down to is simple. I will write whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it.

Does that mean I don’t have a target audience? Maybe, but no. It does not. There is a target audience. There is someone for whom each post is targeted.

Hi Jen. I love you with all my heart. I hope your having a good morning at work. Smoooooch.

They Lost

The Royals lost.

When I was rooting against them they didn’t even lose a single game.

When I was rooting for them they lost.

From now on the San Francisco Giants will be known as the San Francisco Jerkfaces.

Once again the Giants are your World Series Champions. Is it April again yet?

The Last Game

The Boston Red Sox reign as World Series Champions will officially end tonight when either the Royals or the Giants (it’ll be the Royals) win game seven of the 2014 World Series. Well… the game is on Fox, so we technically might not have a winner until tomorrow morning. What with the ridiculous length of each commercial break and all of the crap they add in because they don’t believe the game is enough to hold our interest and the games end up lasting four hours and then they wonder why the games are too long.

Anyway, as a Red Sox fan it will make me sad to see the title given to someone new. As a baseball fan it will make me sad to see a good series end, and even more sad to see the season come to an end.

Although… from a Red Sox fan’s point of view, this season sucked so bad. So very, very bad.

Bring on 2015!

Oh yeah, and Go Royals.

MLB PLAYOFF PREDICTIONS – World Series

So let’s recap the League Championship predictions, shall we? As with the two previous rounds, I didn’t do all that well.

I predicted the Royals would beat the Orioles and they did. Easily. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Royals have yet to lose a post season game. (I’m not wrong) They are 8-0 in the playoffs. Finally picking them was an easy choice.

I predicted the Cardinals would beat the Giants. Nope. Screw you, Giants for winning and screw you, Cardinals for losing. Urgh.

So in round three I was 1-1 which gives me a post season total of 2 out of 8 which means I SUCK.

In the World Series?

Kansas City Royals vs San Francisco Giants. I hate all New York baseball, even when the New York baseball teams left New York when my parents kids. I have always like the Royals. At least I have liked them since George Brett hit .390 in 1980. This is an easy pick for me. The undefeated Royals will win over the jerky not-from-New-York-but-still-kinda-from-New-York Giants. The only question I have is will the Royals sweep again. That would be something amazing to see, wouldn’t it?

Go Royals.