Major League Baseball has been applicable in this country since 1876, so the prospect of there being too many “firsts” here in 2009 would seem far and few between, but if you’ve followed baseball for as long as I have then you become immune to the “OMG, I NEVER SEEN THAT HAPPEN BEFORE” quality of the sport, case and point:
April 13th 2009 - Vacaville native Jermaine Dye along with Paul Konerko became the 1st teammates to ever hit their 300th (or any century number) home run in back to back fashion in the 2nd inning of a 10-6 victory over Detroit
April 19th 2009 - Also in the 2nd inning, the Cleveland Indians pound out 14 runs (that’s what I said) in what would be 22-4 massacre in front of 45,000+ in New Yankee Stadium. The irony is plenty, first off, the 14 run 2nd inning set a record for most runs ever scored in the 2nd beating the previous record set by guess who, u got it, the New York Yankees just 4 years ago to the date (April 18th, 2005), you gotta love baseball. Not to mention ,Yankee pitcher Chien-Ming Wang who started the game, now has an ERA of 34.50, to put that into perspective, he would have to pitch 45 consecutive scoreless innings to get his ERA under 4.00……
April 16-19th - In the same series at New Yankee Stadium the, the Yankees and Indians combined for 20 home runs, the most ever for a opening series in a new stadium.
April 14th 2009 - Jody Gerut became the first player to lead off a game with a home run in a new stadium. On the 3rd pitch ever thrown at Citi Field in New York, Jody Gerut hooked it inside the foul pole for the stadiums first home run.
April 20th, 2009 – This one isn’t relevant but it was the first rainout in Yankee Stadium history but I thought I would list it since it irritated me being an A’s fan and all……
Things I’ve learned from the second episode of Hatton/Pacquiao 24/7:
1. Floyd Mayweather Sr. is almost 60 years old and is in better shape than I am, was, and ever will be.
2. Manny Pacquiao’s wife could get it, I didn’t really take notice of her during the Pacquiao/De La Hoya 24/7 because she was pregnant, but now that she’s back to normal I see whats good.
3. I was initially not too interested in seeing this, but HBO’s hype machine is legendary because I’m dying to see these guys fight now. The entire key to the fight will be Ricky Hatton’s ability to deal with Manny’s speed. We’ve seen Hatton get picked apart by a faster fighter before, so what he has to do now is be a smarter boxer. If Floyd Sr. manages to pull this off and get Ricky to overhaul his style and win…. he’ll be trainer of the year.
THIS is why the NBA Playoffs are the most exciting time in sports period. I may love the NFL most of all, but I can’t front on how great spring basketball is.
Andre Iguodala stuck a dagger in the hearts of Orlando by hitting a rainbow shot over Hedo Turkoglu with 2 seconds left on the clock.
You know how every once in a while something comes along and you’re SURE its a joke of some kind, but it turns out to be 100% real?
Meet Ghetto Golf, the upcoming sports/action video game.
“Ghetto Golf,” a planned downloadable game featuring a scrappy young guy named Vonte in the Bay Area who has to find and complete tricky holes of golf that are set in the wilds of the city — and in the line of fire of gangsters, cops and enemy golfers.
One of the playable scenes they showed involved the hero Vonte needing to use his exploding golf ball to blow up a car that someone was ghost-riding. The player could sheath Vonte’s machine gun, flick past his spiked golf ball and his rubber golf ball to try his explosive golf ball and aim it with a swing at the car.
This isn’t golf at the Masters. This is golf in the hood.
Normally, I would automatically assume a game like this was cooked up by rich white dudes wanting to exploit the inner city……. but oh no. Ghetto Golf is apparently the child of R&B singer Raphael Saadiq, who has coincidentally made some of my favorite songs. This may look like the “Soul Plane” of video games, and it probably wont outsell Tiger Woods Golf anytime soon….. but yeah I’m still going to give it a shot.
Major League Baseball has been applicable in this country since 1876, so the prospect of there being too many “firsts” here in 2009 would seem far and few between, but if you’ve followed baseball for as long as I have then you become immune to the “OMG, I NEVER SEEN THAT HAPPEN BEFORE” quality of the sport, case and point:
You know how every once in a while something comes along and you’re SURE its a joke of some kind, but it turns out to be 100% real?