Archive for December, 2006

Pesäpallo (Or Finnish Minutia)

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Keeping with the winter theme and the long stretch between pitches we’ll pull away from the holidays and focus on the wonders that the game brings to those encumbered by the cold or in other cases as we’ll see distance from the origins the baseball we watch here in the US of A.
First let’s take […]

Kitten Ball

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

“Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms… The game of ball is glorious.”
Walt Whitman
The winter in the Pacific Northwest is one of short days and long nights. It’s a lot like Michigan, just not as cold. In Michigan the winters were spent […]

New Stuff - Cut from a Similar Cloth.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they’re turned around.
The Cincinnati Reds kicked off their off season with the unveiling of some new uniforms last Friday. One thing about these uniforms is that they try and reach to […]