9 Inning Know It All Empire part 1 9 Inning Know It All Empire part 2 By Josh: Where We Are Now I can’t believe just how active the 9 Inning Empire is at this point. Along with Kelly, Norm and myself the empire has another regular writer in Trevor Winsor. Trevor played college baseball…
Continued from 9 Inning Know It All Empire Part 1 of 3 By Josh: The Team I knew that people would get tired of just reading my thoughts and opinions so I had to branch out and find others with the same passion and knowledge for baseball that I had. I interacted with Norm Ordaz…
By Josh: The Beginning Most people don’t realize the truth behind what sparked me to start the 9 Inning Empire. Although I love baseball and do enjoy writing my thoughts, the real reason was to prove that I could effectively do social media and blogging better than another individual. This person’s level of ineffectiveness and…
By Trevor: The game of baseball has many different approaches to it. There isn’t a one “cookie cutter” type of player. The approaches range from boarder-line insanity to very calm and collected. A few weeks ago I was at the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes game and they were playing the Vancouver Canadians. The Canadians first baseman, Jordan…
Interview done by Trevor Winsor. 1. So you played your college ball at UBC. What was the transition like from college ball to minor league ball? Challenges? Things you enjoyed? The biggest difference going from college to pro ball was and still is the grind of a 140 game season. In college we played every…
I have been very lucky as a fan in a lot of ways. I’ve was at the game where Mike Zunino hit his first career homerun. I was the photographer who took the photos of Chris Stratton’s first professional pitch. I’ve photographed first at bats and even a few first homeruns. On Thursday night I…
Let’s be honest. No one wants to be around someone with a cold or the flu because if they are contagious you don’t want to get what they have. The same goes for teams that lose all of the time. Yes, there are always those diehard fans that will sit in the room with the…
By Norm: I should have taken Josh up on the offer to go to Eugene tonight. But, I decided to go to Volcanoes Stadium for Don Larsen night. I should have known better. I’ve lost count of how many I have been through. For those of you who don’t know who Don Larsen is, Larsen…
By Norm: Jonathan Papelbon can shut the hell up. I have wavered on this question the past week or so. Should Yasiel Puig be an all-star? I say yes, and that’s a big HELL YES. Bottom line players like Harper, Machado, Trout, and Puig are good for the game of baseball. Why not? He’s performed…
Latest Leaders – June 2013. The latest leader board has come out and the 9 Inning Crew is excited to be moving back up the MLB Fan Blogs rankings. We are up to #22 and aiming for the top 10 next month. Things have been a ton of fun so far this summer and the…
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