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Baseball Road Trip: Game 8 in NYC (Mets)

by David June 19, 2009 Ballpark Reviews

The 2009 season marked the opening of two brand new ballparks for the New York teams. Overshadowed by the publicity surrounding the “House that George Built” up in the Bronx, Citi Field can definitely hold its own as a first-class facility. This $850 million home of the Mets sits adjacent to the site Shea Stadium [...]

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Baseball Road Trip: Game 7 in Baltimore

by David June 16, 2009 Ballpark Reviews

Our visit to Baltimore’s beautiful ballpark marked the seventh stop on our trip and the second of eight consecutive games to finish our trip.  Oriole Park at Camden Yards was the trend setter for all the new downtown stadiums that have popped up in the majors in the last couple decades.  After visiting, we can [...]

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Baseball Road Trip: Game 6 in Washington D.C.

by David June 15, 2009 Ballpark Reviews

We switched gears from Canadian baseball played on fake grass to the just-opened Nationals Park in Washington D.C. for our sixth stop on this roadie.  Having just opened its doors and field for play at the beginning of the 2008 season, this is one of the most beautiful parks we have seen on this trip.  [...]

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Baseball Road Trip: Game 5 in Toronto

by David June 12, 2009 Ballpark Reviews

Our visit to Comerica Park and the Tigers was followed by a whirlwind day of driving from Detroit to Toronto to Niagara Falls to Williamsport, PA.  Technically we can say that we visited Toronto, but we were only there long enough to park the car, buy food and tickets, and watch the game between the [...]

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Baseball Road Trip: Game 4 in Detroit

by David June 8, 2009 Ballpark Reviews

The Motor City.  Motown.  Rock City.  Our fourth stop on our 13-game circuit was Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan. We arrived at the stadium just as the gates opened and made our way to the Beer Hall where we had some dinner.  We each had our first ever beer at a baseball game and as [...]

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Baseball Road Trip: Game 3 in Chicago (White Sox)

by David June 5, 2009 Baseball Games

Unfortunately, Chiquita did not recover as quickly as we had hoped from being sick. After taking her to urgent care and getting a prescription in Chicago on Monday just before the game, we decided that only I (David) would go to the White Sox game (a little late) and check out US Cellular Field. I [...]

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Waiting for Strassy

by David March 16, 2009 Baseball Games

Last Friday (the 13th), we ventured out to take in some college ball down at Tony Gwynn stadium on the campus of San Diego State.  While we consider ourselves serious baseball fans, we may not have attended this particular game had it not been for all the hype surrounding SDSU’s starting pitcher, Stephen Strasburg. Strassy [...]

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Would You Rather… (March Baseball Edition)

by David March 10, 2009 Spring Training

In high school, some friends and I got our hands on a book called “Would You Rather…” that contained tons of silly scenarios where you were forced to choose between two odd items.  It would ask things like,”Would you rather run a marathon in wooden shoes or ride 200 miles on a bike with no [...]

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Mannywood Act II

by David March 5, 2009 Editorial Thoughts

As a regular, working stiff, I can only dream of how I would spend $45 million.  But for the Dodgers, they may have just bought themselves a second consecutive National League West pennant for that exact price.  After four months of deliberation, the Dodgers and Manny Ramirez agreed to a 2-year deal worth $45 million. [...]

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