Tales from Behind the Plate

By Kelly: I love all parts of the game; playing, coaching and even umpiring, well most the time I love it. I umpire Slow-Pitch adult softball men’s and co-ed and I have been doing it for about 7 years now. Now you would think umping adults would be somewhat easy and it is most of…

9 Inning Baseball Movie Madness

By Kelly: It’s time for the 9 Inning Know It All March Baseball Movie Madness bracket style competition. I have been thinking about doing it for a while and it took some time to complete. I spent about 3 days in January picking out all the movies ranking them based on their ratings from IMDB.…

The Rule Changes

By Josh: On Tuesday Major League Baseball officially announced two rule changes. The first was a change in when collisions at home plate can and cannot occur. I know a lot of people are up in arms saying that this is just because of Buster Posey getting hurt (I will talk about that) and collisions…

9 Inning VIDEO Show Recap

It is Wednesday and normally that means that tonight the 9 Inning Crew would be gearing up for The Complete Game, but this week things are a little different. The 9 Inning Crew recorded two shows on Saturday and today we are posting the second show for everyone to watch. The guys have way to…

Good bye 2013, Hello 2014

By Josh: I don’t know about everyone else but I can’t believe that it is already 2014. Where did the year go? Well anyways here is my recap of the year and maybe even a little bit of what is to come from the 9 Inning Empire. Games Attended Although I didn’t match my total…

The Fan Series: Part 2

By Josh: With the playoffs starting I felt that today’s stereotypical fan was a needed public service announcement. Hibernation from the end of the World Series to the start of spring training is a pretty good way to describe me. I come out of my baseball slumber for the winter meetings and the occasional big…

The Rankings Are Out

I know for the 9 Inning Know It All crew we get a little anxious at the start of each month because we want to see where we are in the MLB Fan Blog rankings.  A couple months ago we slipped in the rankings, which caused the crew to really focus on getting the word…