By Josh: When you go to a baseball game, you go to watch the players. You watch the way the pitcher winds up, and even the batting stance of each batter. Rarely do you pay attention to the umpires unless they make a bad call, or a call you disagree with, even though they are…
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…
Picking who I think will win each division is always a challenge because anything can happen over a full season. Pitchers end up having surgeries, batters get hit in the head with a pitch, and players slip in the shower and break their leg. Things happen and yet I still enjoy making predictions so here…
One of my favorite things to do before the MLB season starts is read what all the so called experts think is going to happen during the season, who is going to make the playoffs and win it ALL. I read everything I can find from ESPN to Yahoo to Fox Sports to Fan Blogs,…
With the 2013 season upon us here’s my preview and predictions. With that said, I’m not an expert so take it easy on me if I’m wrong. Here we go. I will start close to home with the AL West. AL WEST The landscape of the Al West has changed a little. The Astros have…
Dave Edlund is someone who most of us have never heard of. He is known as McCovey Cove Dave. Dave, thanks for taking the time. Tell us more about yourself. I started listening to the Giants radio broadcasts in 1963 and the Giants already had great broadcasters in Lon Simmons and Russ Hodges. I was…
On tonight’s episode of 9 Inning Baseball Talk Norm @tezbaseball and myself @9innknowitall will talk about baseball. I know what a surprise but things are different now. Saturday will be the first set of games that I will be attending and spring training is only days away. Don’t forget to follow on twitter the rest…
Over the next couple of weeks each of the writers at 9 Inning Know it All are going to take a post or two to talk about what got us started in autographing as well as a few other topics about baseball. Up first is Kelly and the reasoning behind his autographing. By Kelly: A…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 57,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 13 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
Today during my lunch break at work I had the great idea of trying to make an infographic. It took me all of a second to decide on doing one for why I strongly believe baseball is great. Be aware not all facts on this are 100% proven to be true but I stand by…
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