AL WILD CARD My predictions at the beginning of the year I had the Oakland A’s making it to the ALCS but they had a huge melt down and barely backed into the 2nd Wild Card spot. After saying that, I think Oakland beats the Royals and only because they have Jon Lester starting. I’m…
Former LA Dodger GM Fred Claire talks about what it’s like being a GM at the trade deadline. Micky (Micky and the Motorcars) and Willy (Reckless Kelly) Braun talk baseball backstage at the Crystal Ballroom with Norm.
By Josh: Here I sit at Story Field in Longview, WA as Day 2 of the 2014 Babe Ruth World Series comes to an end and I am trying to imagine what the players are feeling as they walk into each game. The pressure that they are dealing with, the adrenaline that is running through…
By Josh: Here we are the middle of August, still two months from the World Series, but playoff baseball is going on all across the country from Little League up through the College wood bat leagues. Every day memories are being made as young men, young women, boys and girls are going to practice preparing…
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…
It has been a few weeks since we updated everyone on the results of the Mt Rushmore voting but we are back at it. Kelly includes his thoughts on the voting along with every vote that was tallied. Arizona Diamondbacks Randy Johnson (15 votes) Luis Gonzalez (14 votes) Matt Williams (11 votes) Curt Schilling (9…
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…
With the loss of one of the greatest players and human beings to ever play the game of baseball, we at 9 Inning Know It All, as well as across baseball, are saddened by the death of Tony Gwynn. In Gwynn’s career there were many amazing moments and Norm welcomes Wayne and Rebecca from Padres360…
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…
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…
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