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It’s All About The Grass
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Vivid.” The very first time I went to a baseball game — a real game, with a real diamond and a manicured field — the grass made me blink. I...
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The Friday Night Guy
I’m not sure when college baseball coined the term “Friday Night Guy.” ESPN suggests it came about in the mid-1990s when the SEC (the always power-packed Southeastern Conference) changed its weekend...
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“Soon No Off Season”
“Pretty soon the ball player will not have rest enough between seasons to get acquainted with his folks.” ~ The Sporting News, November 7, 1912 In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge:...
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“Some How. Some Way. Josh Comes In.”
Here are some things The Baseball Bloggess can no longer do. Read the small print on vitamin bottles. This. Stay up past midnight. One can be remedied with cheap drugstore reading glasses and I have 11...
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Know Your Ground Rules
When I was about 10, I challenged my dad to a footrace around the block. I’m not sure why I wanted to race, but my dad and I were always thinking up competitions with each other. I must have figured …...
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OmaHoos 2015
Why do we sing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” when we’re already there? The answer to this corny old joke is simple. Because we do, and not everything in baseball has to make sense. The University of...
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If …
If you graduate from the University of Virginia with a degree in mechanical engineering and a 3.7 GPA … you’ve earned a place on my blog. If you persevere in the sport you love … walking on as a...
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A Cup Of Coffee On The 4th of July
“So, then, to every man his chance — to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity — to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his...
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Free Baseball: Red, White, and Blue Edition
Baseball is the perfect way to spend your Independence Day. But, just in case your guys are the away team today (Dear Orioles, did you forget to pack your bats before you left for Chicago?), here’s...
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Cap-Tivating
If your team is in a mid-season tumble (what, just me?) it might be wise to simply coast through these next few days … close your eyes and crawl to the All-Star Break and hope your team’s bats and...
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Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose.
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” ~ “Nuke” Laloosh, Bull Durham. National Public Radio recently suggested that, as we age, we lose our competitive drive. We play fewer...
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July 24, 2012
On July 24, 2012, the Baltimore Orioles faced the Tampa Rays at Camden Yards. The O’s lost, 3-1. Adam Jones homered, the Oriole’s only run. Nick Markakis was in right and hit a double. Wilson Betemit...
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A Call To Arms
No matter who you are – your gender, ethnicity, country of origin, or age – if you win something big, you will raise your arms in victory. Doesn’t matter who you are … your arms go up. It’s hardwired...
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Requiem for the Tigers, Brewers, Phils … (who have I missed?)
Baseball’s July 31 trade deadline – Trade! Sell! Abandon Hope! – turns a perfect pastoral game into the dirtiest place in town. It’s the bathroom in a sketchy dive at closing time. (Step carefully,...
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Home Teams & The Cap Game
Do you root, root, root for the home team? If you did last night … Congratulations! Your team won. Because last night, for the first time in baseball history (well, actually for the first time in any...
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Salad Days
There are few things as wonderful as an egg salad sandwich on a summer Friday when you’re not working and everyone else is. Yum! Today is, I thought, one of those “salad days.” Because, as with many...
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Free Baseball: 1-2-3 Edition
One A’s pitcher – and former UVa Hoo — tells us about life on the DL. Two Dodger’s pitchers you may have heard of. And, three home runs – a dinger, a moon shot, and a slam – from a Met. … Continue...
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Good Day. Good Advice.
Mondays are rarely singled out as good days. I mean, how can they be better than Saturday, right? But, good days come in all shapes and sizes. And, this Monday was good. Let’s check the “Good Day” box...
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6 for 6. 6 for 6.
The Baltimore Orioles are in the kind of late-season slump that makes you go … Yup, there goes your post-season. When you were little, did you ever have someone hand you an ice cream cone and you...
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“The Official Table of the Slaughter”
Oh, for crap’s sake. Can nothing go right for the Orioles? Yesterday, I shared one of those “On This Day In Baseball” stories. It’s here. How, on September 3, 1897, two Baltimore Orioles – outfielder...
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