It’s not good when you’re still sore from your weekend sports events going into your mid-week games. My body still hasn’t recovered from all the volleyball this weekend – I took my vitamin-I last night. We came in second in our softball league this season and our playoffs started last night. We played the #3…

We played in another reverse co-ed 4’s volleball tournament today (intermediate division) and won it! This means in next month’s we have to play in the Take No Prisoners division – I doubt we’ll even get out of pool play and into the playoffs in that division. 🙄 It was a very long but satisfying…

This is a good thing. Seattle is getting whooped by KC, this is a bad thing.

I don’t know what happened, but somehow the Kansas City Royals didn’t get the memo that they were supposed to be swooning and falling out of the AL Central race right about now. I’ve got a high stakes bet (2 lunches!) with a buddy of mine that they will 1) fall apart and finish under…

Ken Rosenthal has written a good little rant about changes and problems with the all-star game. Personally, I think giving home field advantage to the league whose team wins the all-star game is dumb, really dumb. I agree that the all-star game has lost much of its luster, and that it should be a harder…

Got to see Zito get the win today, bummer that it was against my Mariners. I couldn’t believe that he was brought back out to pitch in in the 8th with a comfortable lead – that didn’t work out too well. Assuming Zito and Hudson return to reasonable luck in getting Wins instead of No…

Barry Bonds stole his 500th career base tonight, giving him 500 stolen bases and 500 (well 600+ actually) home runs for his career. No other player has recorded even 400 steals and 400 home runs. This is really a remarkable achievement. Other members of the 300-300 club include Willie Mays (338 SBs and 660 HRs)…

Played in a reverse co-ed 4’s grass volleyball tournament today, my body is tired from playing and from being out in the sun all day. I haven’t played in a grass tournament for about 3 years (I think). For a few summers, I used to play grass doubles tournaments fairly frequently before my ankle injury…

Sammy Sosa was ejected from tonight’s game against the Devil Rays after the umpires found cork in his broken bat. I’d have thought that a big strong guy like him would want a slightly heavier bat, not a lighter one… I think this is the first corked bat incident of a star player since Albert…

1) Interleague play sucks. You want more interest in the All-Star game and the World Series? Get rid of interleague play. 2) The A’s have been a much better team when they have a veteran hitter in the middle of their lineup. Their young hitters struggled early last season while David Justice was hurt and…

I watched a bit of Annika Sorenstam’s first round today at the Colonial. I was extremely impressed with the way she drove the ball and hit her long iron and fairway metal approach shots. I think she played about as well as she is capable of – a couple better putts and she’d be under…

I saw SoftballStats on freshmeat last week and decided to try using it. My teammate Scott kept the stats in an Excel spreadsheet last season and we wanted to see if we could do something better this year. There is a lot about SoftballStats to like and there is also a lot that could be…

A gem by Hudson turns into another blown save by Foulke, then plunks Posada and the ball ricochets off Posada and hits Ramon Hernandez’s right thumb and he has to leave the game – geesh. now it looks like he may get the win as a Chavez 2 run HR has given them the lead…

Last week I saw (on TV) my fantasy baseball pitchers give up 2 home runs that never actually left the ballpark. This doesn’t help my team stats. 😡