If you are a baseball fan like me, you enjoy all aspects of the game. Not just the more analytical, statistics-based evaluations of recent years, or the classic excitement of a dramatic game, series, or season, but the whole enchilada. The history of the game and the background stories of the players and other individuals … Continue reading Diehards: Why Fans Care So Much About Sports
Shady Tip-Gate
I've always operated by a credo that I heard Steve Martin use in the film "My Blue Heaven": "It's not tipping that I believe in: it's over-tipping." I almost always tip well. Check comes, I do the math out to 20%, and then usually round-up a bit. I realize this is how many servers make … Continue reading Shady Tip-Gate
The greatest sporting event on Earth
The 2014 FIFA World Cup opened yesterday with host Brazil coming away victorious with a 3-1 result over Croatia.Every four years, national teams from around the world meet in what has become by far the world's most-watched and followed sporting event.While American football and baseball are king here in the sports-crazed USA, it is "football", … Continue reading The greatest sporting event on Earth
There’s an MLB Draft too?
There is always a great deal of publicity and conversation in the sports world regarding the NFL Draft and even the NBA Draft process each year.But outside of it's most die-hard fans, few others may realize that Major League Baseball also conducts it's own draft process each year.One of the main reasons that the NFL/NBA … Continue reading There’s an MLB Draft too?
Flyers-Rangers: NHL playoffs: Game 7
When it comes to sports excitement, few things can match what is about to take place in the NHL opening round between our beloved Philadelphia Flyers and the rival New York Rangers.Game 7 elicits all sorts of images, all involving the drama of an entire season of hard work by players, and often just as … Continue reading Flyers-Rangers: NHL playoffs: Game 7
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