Kelly Byrnes with Dave Hansen

Kelly’s 2014 Predictions

Last year was the 1st year I did my predictions but instead of me just thinking about it, everyone who read my predictions knew what I thought, all 27 of you. Here’s to a few more readers this year. Let’s start with the AL East. Red Sox win the AL East again but this year…

Tales from Behind the Plate

By Kelly: I love all parts of the game; playing, coaching and even umpiring, well most the time I love it. I umpire Slow-Pitch adult softball men’s and co-ed and I have been doing it for about 7 years now. Now you would think umping adults would be somewhat easy and it is most of…

9 Inning Baseball Movie Madness

By Kelly: It’s time for the 9 Inning Know It All March Baseball Movie Madness bracket style competition. I have been thinking about doing it for a while and it took some time to complete. I spent about 3 days in January picking out all the movies ranking them based on their ratings from IMDB.…

Mariners FanFest 2014 Recap

By Kelly: Every last weekend in January my family and I converge on Seattle on Friday night for Mariners FanFest weekend. My wife and I started going before we had any kids and we haven’t missed one since our 1st one in 2004. I knew this year was going to be a little crazier than…

Winter Meetings Thursday Recap

By Kelly Slow day to end the Winter Meetings there was still a few signings, a handful of trades and of course more rumors. NEWS Today was the Rule 5 Draft. Not much to report here except one interesting pick was in the minor league part of the Draft. The Rangers selected Russell Wilson, yes…

Winter Meetings Recap Wednesday

By Kelly: Getting closer to the end of this year’s Winter Meetings. Today there were more signings, a handful of trades and of course more rumors. NEWS This morning they announced this year’s winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. The winner was Eric Nadel of the Texas Rangers. He…