AL WILD CARD This game is going to be hard for me to watch because my Mariners were so close to being in this game. With that being said I am picking the Royals to beat the A’s. The A’s have not looked good the last half of the season and say what you want…
By Kelly, Over the past week I have had a few opportunity to spend some time with my family at a couple different baseball venues. What came of it was 2 memories that I will never forget and I hope my girls won’t either. Memory #1 Last Tuesday I took my middle daughter Malia to…
(If you have never seen the autograph game rules you can read them here The Autograph Game) Mariners Fan Fest (45 points) Every last weekend in January my family goes to Safeco Field for Fan Fest, 2013 was our 10th one. In past years we didn’t count Fan Fest for points in our Autograph game…
Salem-Keizer Volcanoes Good This is the stadium that I have been to more than any other over the past 5 years and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that for an autographer like me there is no better stadium. Both the visiting team and the home team walk right through the fans…
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…
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…
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…
There is just something about sitting in the seats at a baseball game and enjoying some beautiful summer weather. I honestly think that food tastes better, grass is softer and bad jokes are funnier when you are watching baseball. The Week in Review Why do I bring this up? It is because this past week…
By Josh: This was going to be just a short ‘check out our new logo blog’ but I guess I wanted to say more than that. In a few previous posts I have talked about a few of the reasons why I started this blog and what my hopes were, but today I want to…
Tyler LaTorre was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Giants in 2006. Tyler, thanks for taking some time. Please tell us more about yourself. What has been the best moment of your career so far? I have had many great moments in my life because of baseball. In 2003, while playing for UC…
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