By Kelly: I look forward to Mariners FanFest weekend every year. In fact it’s one of my favorite weekends of the year. My family and I head down to Seattle and make it to the Caravan event Friday night. This year it was in Lynnwood, WA at the Alderwood Mall, Mike Zunino, James Paxton and…
I joined the IBWAA in October of this year and was extremely excited to vote for the Hall of Fame. As a baseball fan I have always had my picks to who I thought should be voted in but they never counted towards anything, until this year. I took this honor very seriously and here’s…
By Kelly: Big changes to the 2014 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects. First of all they changed the name to just Bowman Draft. Another one of the big changes is that there are no more rookie cards in the set. It now focuses more on the latest draft picks just beginning their journey to a…
By Kelly: I’m beginning to think I enjoy the Hot Stove Season almost as much as I do the regular season so why not do some predictions. I pretty much stunk up my Pre-Season Predictions and Postseason Predictions so maybe third time is the charm. Max Scherzer (Yankees): Scherezer gambled on himself last year when…
AL WILD CARD My predictions at the beginning of the year I had the Oakland A’s making it to the ALCS but they had a huge melt down and barely backed into the 2nd Wild Card spot. After saying that, I think Oakland beats the Royals and only because they have Jon Lester starting. I’m…
By Kelly: Yesterday was one of the most exciting ending to a Trade Deadline that I have ever seen. Norm and I did a pretty good job keeping up with all the trades on the 9 Inning Know It All Facebook page but just in case one fell through our hands here’s everything that happened…
By Kelly, Over the past week I have had a few opportunity to spend some time with my family at a couple different baseball venues. What came of it was 2 memories that I will never forget and I hope my girls won’t either. Memory #1 Last Tuesday I took my middle daughter Malia to…
It has been a few weeks since we updated everyone on the results of the Mt Rushmore voting but we are back at it. Kelly includes his thoughts on the voting along with every vote that was tallied. Arizona Diamondbacks Randy Johnson (15 votes) Luis Gonzalez (14 votes) Matt Williams (11 votes) Curt Schilling (9…
Here are the results from the second division in the Mt Rushmore voting. Chicago Cubs Ernie Banks (21 votes) Ryne Sandberg (18 votes) Ron Santo (14 votes) Fergie Jenkins (12 votes) Other receiving votes: Billy Williams (6 votes), Sammy Sosa (3 votes), Hack Wilson (3 votes), Kerry Wood (2 votes), Mark Grace (2 votes), Three…
The voting is complete and here are the complete results counted by Kelly. Also check out his thoughts on each team. Mt. Rushmore: NL East Edition Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron (21 votes) Greg Maddux (20 votes) Chipper Jones (19 votes) Warren Spahn (8 votes) Other receiving votes: John Smoltz (7), Tom Glavine (6), Bobby Cox…
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