Thank you, Arizona Diamondbacks, for one of the coolest troop tributes I've seen! (A deployed 22-year veteran National Guardsman's kids, ages 5 & 6, got to throw out the first pitch. And the catcher stood up and took off his mask, and it was their dad - they didn't know he'd come home. AWESOME ( Read more... )

Last Fantasy Baseball draft tonight. Cutting it a little close - Catherine's dance class ends at 6:15, and the draft begins at 6:30. Fortunately, the studio is right around the corner. This is the SDMB Big League, too - twenty teams this season! So the draft is going to take a while ( Read more... )

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I "won" the super-secret lottery for DBacks postseason tickets (through, I think, the simple expedient of signing up for it) and managed to secure two tickets for Game 2 of the Arizona part of the NLDS. Arizona lost tonight, but so did the Giants, making the DBacks Magic Number 3. However, the Brewers won, which puts the DBacks three games back for ( Read more... )

I have Roku! I'm beside myself with joy. I bought it with my birthday Amazon GC from the in-laws. I've wanted one ever since I got MLB.TV - what it is is a little device (and I do mean little - it's a 3x3x1 inch box. I was expecting something component sized, but this is good because I can take it with me anywhere I go) that streams internet video ( Read more... )

And Tribe fans welcomed Jimmy (T)Home with open arms. Apparently, from the time the trade was announced until game time tonight, they sold 8000 tickets. Considering that the game was against the Royals, that's a pretty big deal. Jimmy went 0 for 4, but that didn't matter. And you could tell how happy he was to be back at that park, in that uniform ( Read more... )

Jim Thome is back in Wahoo red, white, and blue. Probably as a rent-a-player, but still.

This makes me so happy. He was one of my all-time faves, and I was grief-stricken when he left. My old vanity plate was "WAHOO25" - I changed it when he left.

Now I can wear my Thome t-shirts without irony.

There's a birthday present! (Both for him and for

It's a good weekend for baseball for me. My Indians are playing the Giants (who are the primary rivals my NL West-leading DBacks have) and the DBacks are playing the Tigers (the primary rivals the AL Central-leading Indians have). So I'm doubly hoping my teams win ( Read more... )

My Cleveland Indians are 20-8. 4 1/2 games up in the AL Central ( Read more... )

Okay, who replaced my Indians with guys who can actually play the game?