Baseball thoughts and stories from Inside Chris’s head

Fan is Short for Fanatic

Fan is Short for Fanatic

Filed Under: Baseball, Marketing

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 [...]

When Did Amateur Become a Dirty Word?

When Did Amateur Become a Dirty Word?

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 [...]

Bonds Home Run History

Bonds Home Run History

Filed Under: Baseball

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.

Star-Spangled Banner

Filed Under: Baseball, History

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!”.

Dark Day In History

Filed Under: Baseball, History

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 [...]

Giants Retain Schmidt, et all

Filed Under: Baseball

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 [...]

Coincidence?

Filed Under: Baseball, History

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 [...]

Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch

Filed Under: Baseball, Movies

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 [...]

Visits to ER Fell as 2004 Red Sox Rose

Filed Under: Baseball, News

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 [...]

Barry's Back

Filed Under: Baseball

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 [...]