By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): In July of 2011 I had the idea of taking the sport that I love the most and talk about it through a blog, so that I could let others see baseball the way I see it. I wrote about the Seattle Mariners, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes and whatever…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): This blog is going to be a little different than usual because it is more than just baseball. October is one of my favorite months of the year. It’s not because of the weather, I live in the northwest and once it starts raining in October it won’t…
Having been raised playing baseball and watching games since I was a baby I have found countless ways to try and entertain myself during the boring parts of games. I’ve done everything from spitting sunflower seeds into a cup, bouncing a baseball onto steps in the dugouts to try and get ‘singles’, ‘doubles’ and ‘triples’,…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): With the building of the new stadium in Hillsboro, OR, a suburb of Portland, OR, the question is brought up as to whether or not Portland is a baseball city. Will the people of Portland actually come out and support a team, or has the NBA and MLS…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): 9 Inning: Who influence you growing up in terms of playing baseball? MG: There were a couple of people. My father did a really good job of pushing baseball as a fun game instead of like a job. So he did a really good job of balancing when I…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): When guys talk about their glory days playing baseball they always make it sound so amazing. The grass was always green and soft, the sun always shined and opposing fans rained down compliments because of how inspired they were by that player’s greatness. That isn’t close to what…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): When ‘experts’ talk about baseball they often overlook the northwest. It’s always raining up in the northwest and there really isn’t a lot of good baseball up there anyways right? Wrong! I firmly believe that baseball in the northwest is the most underrated locations for America’s pastime in…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): Saturday night marked the end of my third season volunteering with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, the short-season Single A affiliate of the San Fransisco Giants. The conclusion of the season means a few things for me. First is that I suddenly have a lot of time in the evenings…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): With the blockbuster trade that became official this weekend people are starting to question whether or not the Dodgers are simply the Yankees of the West. To that I simply say, yes they are and it’s about time. For too many years the Dodgers, who are one of…
By Josh (9 Inning Know It All): Earlier this year I was able to sit down and catch the final 7 innings of the Philip Humber perfect game against the Mariners. I was both excited to watch a perfect game and saddened as it came against my favorite team. Then came June 8th, when I…
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