By Josh: It is unbelievable to me that we are already more than a week into the season but regardless of that I wanted to do a recap of what stood out to me from Monday April 1st to Monday April 8th. Clayton Kershaw- Can you guess who is #1 on ESPN’s Cy Young predictor…
For baseball fanatics like me, one of the most enjoyable times of the year is the baseball winter meetings. Here, every team is a contender and every team is able to make trades, sign free agents and just give their fan base a little ray of hope. Although this years’ Winter Meetings wasn’t the most…
By Mitch Maldonado: San Francisco Giant: 2012 World Series Champions. That sentence is still hard to read. I was born and bred a Dodgers fan, true and blue. Despite growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I knew where my allegiance was, with the boys in blue. As young as I am (24 years old), being…
It is always fun as a baseball fan to have connections with people in different areas of baseball and to hear about what they get to experience. My biggest connection to the 2012 World Series Giants is a member of the grounds crew for the Giants. Drew Rountree was the Head Grounds Keeper for the…
Let me begin by making it very clear to everyone the Giants are not my favorite team. In fact they are more like 5th on my favorite teams list and they are only that high because I’ve had the opportunity to meet players both on the major league team as well as getting to know…
In March of 2011 I had the opportunity to go to Scottsdale, AZ and interview a number of former Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. The Giants had just won the World Series and getting to hear how things had changed for the players during the offseason was fun. However, there was one former Salem-Keizer Volcanoe’s player who wasn’t…
By Josh R: When I first started thinking about what this World Series would be like I immediately thought about the pitching on both teams. Verlander and Fister for the Tigers up against Cain, Vogelsong and Bumgarner for the Giants. Game 1 kind of surprised me. With Verlander on the mound, who I put in…
By Josh R: As game one of the World Series was about to start I had one thought in my head, ‘Verlander is going to dominate the Giants early on and make a statement to start this series.’ Well a statement was made in a huge way but it wasn’t by Verlander or the Tigers. …
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): This past June, Mariners fans began hearing confirmation that the M’s were going to use the 3rd overall pick on Mike Zunino, a catcher from the University of Florida. Many fans thought, “Oh great another pick used on a catcher.” A lot of fans remembered a previously 3rd overall pick…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): During my lunch break at work I took a few moments to check on recent baseball stories and the scores of the playoff game being played. Instantly a few things stood out to me. So here they are. Nolan Ryan’s Comments Nolan Ryan released a statement saying that…
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