By Josh: All morning long I have been scratching my head that today is Mike Trout’s birthday. Okay not just because it is his birthday, but because it is only his 23rd birthday. The best player in all of baseball, the biggest and brightest star in the game, and the face of MLB now that…
By Josh Let’s be honest, for a few hours I wasn’t able to accomplish as much as I normally do. My phone was going crazy with people tweeting like crazy about all that was going on in the MLB world. Things were absolutely crazy. Heck here is the easiest way for me to break everything…
By Josh: I love watching baseball. Going out to a game when it is 75 degrees outside and a slight breeze is about as enjoyable and relaxing of an evening as I can get. Even when I have had a bad day I can smile and laugh at a baseball game. Baseball has been a…
By Josh: All day I have been thinking about what I want to say about the all-star game and the same thing keeps coming to mind; baseball has the best all-star game in all of sports. Now I know I am a bit biased because of my love for baseball but I really believe the…
By Josh: The midway point of the season in terms of games played has come and gone and I can’t believe how fast the season is going. Since the regular season has started I have made it to one Mariner game, one Salem-Keizer Volcanoes game, and one Cowlitz Black Bears game. (I did go to…
By Josh: I didn’t grow up in the golden age of pitching in baseball. I never got to watch greats like Koufax, Gibson, Spahn, and so many other greats. I have been privileged to watch pitchers like Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez. However, two pitchers who pitched on Sunday are easily the two…
By Josh: It used to be that the phrase Manny being Manny would draw a smile and a laugh from baseball fans. Manny Ramirez was a great but very unusual baseball player. His antics were the talk of all of baseball for a time. However, now the term Manny being Manny brings on a negative…
For a while the 9 Inning Know It All group has been selling shirts to help get the word out about who we are and to draw more baseball fans attention. Today we start a special sale on pink shirts that we want to use to help raise awareness about breast cancer. Most if not…
By Josh: Recently Kelly raised the question ‘if every team were to have a Mt Rushmore, who would make it for each franchise?’ He began raising the question on the 9 Inning Know It All Facebook page, starting in alphabetical order with the Arizona Diamondbacks, to see who the 9 Inning Know It All Empire…
By Josh R: The sports world has been dominated by news of what Donald Sterling said to his girlfriend (not his wife even though he is married) about African Americans. Now I know that Sterling is an owner of an NBA team and this is a baseball blog, but there are some topics that transcend…
9 Inning Know It All 