Confession time: I’ve only been a baseball fan since 2004. It all started for me on July 19th, 2004, when the Cardinals visited Wrigley Field for a brief two-game series, which, due to a quirk in the scheduling, would actually be the last games between the teams for the rest of the season. I had just moved from St. Louis to Olathe, Kansas, having just finished 8th grade, so I had nothing to do for the rest of the summer, kind of like Scotty Smalls in The Sandlot. I basically spent all day watching TV, browsing the internet and generally contributing nothing to society.
What’s up with King Felix?
Notable events that have occurred on the date of August 4th throughout history:
-1892: Lizzie Borden’s family found murdered
-1914: Germany invades Belgium, the UK declares war on Germany.
-1944: Anne Frank and family discovered by Gestapo.
-1993: Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell sentenced to 30 months in prison for Rodney King beating.
And, last but not least:
-2005: Felix Hernandez makes his MLB debut against the Detroit Tigers, pitching five innings, with four strikeouts, two walks, three hits, two runs (one earned), and earns a loss in the first decision of his career.
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The National League MVP Race
With less than a month’s worth of games left remaining in the regular season, the whole of the season is starting to come into focus, and the time for foolishly definitive statements has arrived, statements such as:
-The Cubs are the best team in baseball this year. (I just shuddered while typing that.)
-Cliff Lee is ten times better than your favorite starting pitcher.
-K-Rod is going to be massively overpaid this offseason. Saves!
-Now begins a new era of Yankee futility, in which they do not make the postseason for the next ten years.*
*A guy can dream, can’t he?
And, the single most blindingly obvious conclusion that can be made from the 2008 MLB regular season:
-Albert Pujols is, by far, the most valuable player in baseball this year.
First post
I have what I consider to be a semi-significant amount of writing talent, and practically no outlet for it, which is what spurned me to create this blog. That’s pretty much the long and short of it, so if you get some entertainment out of my posts, that’s great, and otherwise, I hope I haven’t wasted too much of your time.
