The San Francisco Giants fans were yelling like crazy, slapping high fives and jumping up and down. Two things in particular were amazing about this scene. The first was that they were sitting in the rain as they did this. The second is that they were not watching any game. They were sitting in the ...

It seems over the last few years main stream media has increasingly taken the position that main stream media is “professional” and that bloggers and podcasters are “amateurs”. When did “amateur” become a dirty word? I am an amateur, after all I have a podcast that proudly proclaims myself the “Amateur Traveler“. But what’s so ...

I am going to wager that not everyone woke up this morning to a special section in their home town newspaper chronicling the home run history of Barry Bonds.

On this day in 1931 The “Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the national anthem of the United states. So before 1931 baseball games started with that awkward pause before “play ball!”.

On this date in 1973 Baseball’s American League adopted the “designated hitter” rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher, starting the slow decline of the American civilization. Disco also came out of the 1970s, clearly those were the days that tried men’s souls.

And there was much rejoicing from Giants fans over this good news: The Giants exercised their 2006 options on P Jason Schmidt ($10 million) and CF Randy Winn ($5 million). Also, 2B Ray Durham ($7 million), OF Moises Alou ($4 million) and P LaTroy Hawkins ($3.5 million) exercised their player options to stay with the ...

On this day in 1964 the Warren commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone to kill president John F. Kennedy. On this day in 1998 Mark McGwire hit home runs 69 and 70 to break the home run record long held by Roger Maris. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Fever Pitch is light romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon about a couple who meet and fall in love in Boston during the baseball off season. Only later does Barrymore understand just what it means to be a baseball fan and a Red Sox fan at that. This movie ended up being more ...

I enjoyed this article after just watching Fever Pitch last weekend. We already knew that Red Sox fans were fanatical, but you don’t expect them to be saying “oh it’s only bleeding a little and it is only the top of the 7th”. From the Washington Post: Everyone knows that Boston Red Sox fans endured ...

For a brief moment the crowd thought that Barry Bonds had hit home run number 704 tonight at Pacbell Park. But after the scoreboard started to flash “704″ the 2nd base umpire signaled a double due to fan interference. We all booed but the call was correct. A fan had reached down below the top ...