play ball!

we are here, and where we are every day (without fail, now, for hours and hours and hours), where you would usually find us ( Read more... )

one of the few hobbies that take up what little free time that i have is fantasy baseball, in several varieties ( Read more... )

tuned in this afternoon to the boston red sox through the local nesn broadcast through my mlb package because i wanted to watch a little of my old tiger favorite fister pitching. haven't done so since he came up and thus missed his complete game one hitter -- good to know he still has it some days. ended up seeing a commercial i otherwise wouldn't ( Read more... )

alex avila came back to the tigers this year after a year away now that he's reached the point in his career of being a backup catcher. randomly grabbed my avila #13 tee to wear to today though i couldn't watch most of the game because we're house hunting. (oh did i forget to mention we're house hunting?). so avila, not a guy who homers a ton, hit ( Read more... )

so now then.

we are re-watching cheers gradually. a show that she watched somewhat as it aired (myself i only saw the final episode -- and as a momentous occasion really rather than a televised story, having none of the context of what had gone before), and which we both had watched after it aired (but before we met). so for the first time ( Read more... )

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incredibly dismaying to see more of this april snow and have temperatures dip below freezing. but i took some solace in the extraordinarily rare occurrence of a spring evening on which i could comfortably wear my pittsburgh pirates ugly christmas sweater while at the same time the pirates upon it were playing baseball in the same city (i almost ( Read more... )

tonight was a fantastic night for detroit sports fans. the red wings and pistons both were victorious and both near realization of their playoff hopes (one for an amazing 25th straight season, the other for the first time since spring of 2009) [the pistons defeated the magic (!) to reduce their magic number to 1]. the tigers also won to begin the ( Read more... )

so i made a post about billy burns late this morning after i added him to my fantasy team as a temporary fill-in. despite the description at espn that he " packs little-to-no power" he proceeded to hit his first career home run (in his 34th game) during his first at bat today. can i be played by brad pitt in the movie?