I played softball last night and 2+ hours of full court basketball tonight – my knees are barking at me. I’ve played baseball (now softball) since I was 6 years old, so picking up after 4-5 months off was no big deal. If I take 2 weeks off from golf my swing falls apart. C’mon…

Today was NOT a good fantasy baseball day for my pitchers – why can’t the closers do their jobs! First Hudson carries a 2 hit shutout into the 8th, the Macha leaves him in too long, Dimitri Young gets credit for a HR that never left the yard and in the 9th, Tejada throws the…

Congratulations Joey Su (nothing to see there really, but a name without a link?) on winning the 3rd season of our fantasy basketball league. Joey took the lead in the adjusted standings in early December and pretty much kept his foot on our throats the rest of the way. As I write this, it looks…

It’s like I told my buddy Mark before the season started: I don’t have a problem with the closer by committee approach Boston is taking, I have a problem with the relievers in the committee. You want a closer by committee, you want to assemble a group of arms like the Mariners had in 2001:…

In his first game as manager of the Oakland A’s, Ken Macha resisted the temptation to keep starting pitcher Tim Hudson in the game in the 9th inning even though he had a shutout going. Letting your starter go for the complete game shutout was not the right thing to do on a cold opening…

The Rangers and Angels kick off the season tonight, the game is on ESPN. I’m so glad it’s baseball season again! 😀

Baseball fans should read this excerpt. When Bob Costas’ book Fair Ball came out, I got the audio version and listened to it on my way to and from work. It is a very well thought out and clearly presented plan for how to save baseball. The whole book is great and I gained a…

We just finished the 2003 draft for my keeper league. I think I did ok, although I know I made some mistakes since I wasn’t at all prepared. I’ve put up the info for the 2003 Delta Six league as well now that the draft for my league is completed. As you can see, I…

I made a small change in my golf swing and I seem to have added about 20 yards per club. This is a very strange feeling. I hit over 6 greens including 2 into the water behind the green in my first round since making this tweak. Kind of a happy frustration on the golf…

Dave Kindred at the Sporting News gets it right in his article… an admission and an apology are the right thing to do, but rules are still rules and actions have consequences – end of story.

The Mariners and the Diamondbacks played to a 6-6 tie today… what do they think this is, the All-Star game?

We had the draft for the 2003 Delta Six league last night. A bunch of guys were drafted that I hadn’t even heard of before – youngsters I guess (hope?)… I think I did ok. My hitting was fairly set, I picked up a bunch of starting pitchers early and some decent bats later. I…

Just ordered my season tickets for the A’s. Actually, just the 20 game pack, split with T-Bone… but "season tickets" sounds much cooler 🙂 My apologies in advance to those who don’t want to see a whole bunch of baseball photos again this summer.

KNBR has been replaying Giants games for the last 2 weeks and I’m getting excited for baseball season. I feel very lucky to live in an area where there are good radio announcers. Jon Miller and Dave Neihaus may be the best in the business and the rest of the Giants broadcast crew is very…

I’m starting to get ready for my fantasy baseball leagues, my keeper list is due in about a week for the Delta Six league. I’ve got 10 guys I’d like to keep but only 9 spots: Todd Helton Jeff Kent Nomar Garciaparra Troy Glaus Bobby Abreu Gary Sheffield Ryan Klesko Pedro Martinez Mark Mulder Derek…