Hope and expectations. Two things that can be so fleeting and volatile. Coming into the 2013 season, the Rockies had no expectations, and any Rockies fan who told you he or she had hope for this season would be lying. The best case scenario predicted by all the experts was flirting with .500 [...]
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Baseball has always been known as the epitome of American society and tradition. But the problem with the sport, and any sport really, is that they don’t really have a way to for those who are visually challenged to participate. This has always been the case, until now. Beep Baseball is a sport that has [...]
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Jeon Jun-woo of the Lotte Giants attempted to do his best Willie Mays impersonation after hitting a ball he thought he crushed for a homerun. Only problem, was that it wasn’t a homerun and after he dropped his bat and pointed to the sky, he realized, along with the rest of the players on each [...]
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We all know the attendance issues at Miami Marlins park and while the Dolphins fans show up considerably more, fans of both teams are subject to some of the worst owners in all of sports. In order to keep holding Superbowls at the Dolphins’ Sun Life Stadium, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stated the stadium needed [...]
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There’s a saying in baseball that “you can’t win the World Series in April but you can lose it” and that certainly applies to the Colorado Rockies. April has not been kind to Colorado over the years. In the franchise’s 20 years of existence, they have only had three playoff berths. Most of the time, [...]
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Films often take liberties to make stories more entertaining, but may also pay tribute to the real people behind them. Jackie Robinson’s story, 42, balances the life of a sports icon with traditional cinematic story-telling.
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Should you Rickey Henderson or Pete Rose that base? The age old debate that has lasted since the days of little league has been “which is more efficient; running or sliding into first base?” Obviously each method has its own pros and cons; running to first base means you have that extra step of velocity [...]
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Well, that didn’t last long. Obviously inspired by my last post, the Rockies roared out to a 5-1 start. After dropping a game they should have won in the season opener, the Rox reeled off five straight wins, matching their season-high from a year ago. They took two-of-three from Milwaukee before sweeping San Diego at [...]
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Washington Nationals baseball fans have had it with fans doing “the wave” at games. And they have flyers to prove it. A few friends apparently got so sick of people trying to do the wave at games, that they made a flyer to hand out to anyone seen attempting to get one started up. And [...]
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Welcome to another addition to our MLB Female Fan series where we feature all the die hard female fans that support their team through 162 games, hot weather, heated rivalries and good old fashioned baseball traditions. During the series we will feature women for every franchise and their stories on how they became a baseball [...]
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