Macho macho macho maaannnn !!!

Manny makes the huge guy happy.

Friday Mail Bag

Time to look at some of the letters in the Friday mail bag.  And since no one except me actually reads this blog, these will all be letters that I have sent myself.  A bit self-centered, but .......  hey, I'm a bit self-centered, so it kinda makes sense.

Apologies if the above photo is too cute.  I felt the slacker aspect made up for the overt cuteness.  Looks like a cat that I could hang out with.

Our first letter is from a Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, NJ  who writes "Dear Roseanne Roseanneadana - who the heck is this Billy Fleming that the Yankees just signed?"  Turns out Billy Fleming is neither the 6 year old kid who lives next door to me nor the 87 year old guy sitting on his porch in Mobile drinking a cold one, but a second baseman who played at West Virginia and is actually halfway decent.  He's no Brian Roberts, but who is?  Besides Brian, I mean. 

RIP Brian - dead to me now that you're a Yankee.

Our second reader asks "Hey 69Brooks, when are you going to the National?"  Good question.  And the answer is - IN JUST ONE WEEK I WILL BE WALKING AROUND THE CLEVELAND EXPOSITION CENTER AT THE NATIONAL !!!!   Yay !!!  That's the National Sports Collectors Convention, and this will be my fourth (two in Baltimore, one in Chicago, and now my first one in Cleveland).  Such a cool place to be for us baseball card fanatics.  So many cards to see that I haven't seen before, and lots of cards to see that I've seen about 5 million times (I'm looking at you '91 Donruss).  But I love all of it.  Can't wait to get there and pick up some new stuff.  Many thanks to the family for humoring me on this and letting me out for the weekend.

And the final letter for this go round is from a Mr. J. Dunn from the early 19th century, who asks from beyond the grave "Did you just pick up a sweetheart of a T206 card of me on the 'bay this week?"  Why yes, Mr. J (also happens to be one of my favorite nicknames for my son), I did pick up a smart-looking T206 of you with an Old Mill back just recently.  A little paper loss on the back, but the price was right considering I had a $15 eBay Bucks certificate to throw in to the deal as a personal discount.

Schweeeet !  Maybe I can find a couple more T206's at the National that aren't priced through the roof.

Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

The Heavy Sink

Nooooo - not a walk-off three run homer to the scruffy dude with the mullet!

It's OK Zach - the other two guys reached on a dribbler to third and a broken bat looper behind first base.  Just threw one sinker that didn't sink quite enough to Donaldson.  But give him credit - Mullet-man can take huge swings and drive the ball a long ways sometimes.

The O's came back and won on Saturday 8-4, with Zach picking up a one out save with the heavy sink.  Everybody gets the heavy sink.  Most times it works out.

Let's not talk about Sunday.  Sundays and the Orioles do not play well together this year.  6-10 on Sundays.

Is 33 days between posts too long ?   Obviously, I still need to find my rhythm with this blog post thing.