Sure, I'll take another reason to adore Dennis Eckersley!
Absolutely nothing remotely interesting has happened to me lately. There is simply nothing going on in my baseball life or real life that is worthy of talking about right now.
Well, except for maybe the fact that Daisuke Matsuzaka is going to be on my TV tomorrow facing off against Scott Kazmir. I really hope my schedule works out in such a way that I'll get to watch.
I have gotten pretty far into H2, though. I've read thirty-eight of three hundred thirty-eight chapters - just three hundred chapters to go! - and I'm enjoying it so far. It's pretty cute. The basic plot revolves around three friends who end their middle school baseball careers and go on to high school. One goes to a power school (think Yokohama High School, Matsuzaka's alma mater), whilst the other two, who have been a battery since fourth grade, are misdiagnosed by an unlicensed doctor and are forced to quit playing. But since this is a shonen manga, they discover these incorrect diagnoses and get the opportunity to play again, building up their high school's team from scratch since it does not have a baseball team. I'll do a full review once I read the entire thing, but right now I have to say that I like it up to this point. It's definitely entertaining.
Also, I'm watching the Mets and the Cardinals, and according to the commentary it was our ('our' referring to fans of the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals, because he played for all of them) very own Eck who coined the phrase "walk-off," referring to the act of the pitcher having to walk off the mound. Can anybody verify this? If it's true, I think it's pretty darn cool. I love Eck.
Well, except for maybe the fact that Daisuke Matsuzaka is going to be on my TV tomorrow facing off against Scott Kazmir. I really hope my schedule works out in such a way that I'll get to watch.
I have gotten pretty far into H2, though. I've read thirty-eight of three hundred thirty-eight chapters - just three hundred chapters to go! - and I'm enjoying it so far. It's pretty cute. The basic plot revolves around three friends who end their middle school baseball careers and go on to high school. One goes to a power school (think Yokohama High School, Matsuzaka's alma mater), whilst the other two, who have been a battery since fourth grade, are misdiagnosed by an unlicensed doctor and are forced to quit playing. But since this is a shonen manga, they discover these incorrect diagnoses and get the opportunity to play again, building up their high school's team from scratch since it does not have a baseball team. I'll do a full review once I read the entire thing, but right now I have to say that I like it up to this point. It's definitely entertaining.
Also, I'm watching the Mets and the Cardinals, and according to the commentary it was our ('our' referring to fans of the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals, because he played for all of them) very own Eck who coined the phrase "walk-off," referring to the act of the pitcher having to walk off the mound. Can anybody verify this? If it's true, I think it's pretty darn cool. I love Eck.