So now I’m selling things

 Image from Yazoomer.com  Yesterday was the first time that I noticed any ads in this space. I never really bothered to read the agreement that I entered into when I first joined WordPress, but I’m assuming that they reserved the right to use their bandwith to sell things and make money. And it turns out

Wow. Just Wow.

If you ever needed proof of the magic of baseball, you got it tonight. “Thrilling” doesn’t even begin to describe these games. Tampa came all the way back tonight, and all the way back in the last month of the season, and now they get to keep playing games into at least next week. Boston

Winners go on, losers go home

No other professional sport comes close to baseball for sheer number of games played in a season. Playing (almost) every day, for six months plus the post season, shows that baseball is the American game. Football is too violent to play once a week, and the idea that NBA teams could play two or three

Is he a ballplayer or a candy striper?

I got the card you see above in a trade with Josh Wilker of cardboardgods.net. It’s really a great blog, and on some level he inspired me to start writing this blog. I enjoy baseball cards, because they connect me to both the game I love and to my long-gone youth, but I wouldn’t have