Patrick Havens on July 6th, 2008

OK… this was a great clip from a minor league game (Fresno vs. Tacoma).  This ball girl uses some ninja skills and shows up the left fielder.

Yes, you might want to play it a couple times. It is hard to believe…

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Patrick Havens on September 26th, 2007

The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, its owner said Wednesday.Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball’s fate, and the [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 17th, 2007

Even before he hit it Barry Bonds had a lot of controversy on him. And when he hit ball number 756 that controversy came to a head. Now it could of slowly tapered off, but Marc Ecko decided to extend the fate a little longer by buying the ball, and then offering to [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 12th, 2007

Baseball is one of those sports that generally gets played the same the world over with only minor changes. But this video shows something VERY different.

glumbert.com - Hold your feet! Korean baseball gets strange
I’ve no idea why they do that, if it was a rule added because of conduct that happened [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 16th, 2006

After being swept in AL championship series by Detroit, the Oakland Athletics fired manager Ken Macha on Monday.
[The Associated Press]
Now this has got to be the biggest little sentence I’ve seen in a long time.  The Oakland Athletics fired Macha, who had brought the A’s to the playoffs.  Now rather then posting that after a [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 6th, 2006

8-3 Final Score…
3 games in a row sweep…
w00t!
enough said.
Oakland Athletics : The Official Site

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Patrick Havens on September 26th, 2006

12 - 2 Final Score…
w00t!
enough said.
Oakland Athletics : The Official Site

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Patrick Havens on July 17th, 2006

ESPN.com - MLB - Recap
For the New York Mets, it was a grand slam of an inning.
First, Cliff Floyd homered with the bases loaded. Then, Carlos Beltran did the same. After David Wright added a two-run shot, New York had 11 runs — the most in a single inning in club history.
“It was just amazing [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 16th, 2006

Most outrageous minor-league baseball promotions
10. The Nashua (N.H.) Pride commemorated the 32nd anniversary of Watergate by giving out 1,000 Richard Nixon bobbleheads. Anyone named Woodward or Bernstein got in free.
9. The Charleston RiverDogs tried to play the quietest game ever on “Silent Night” in 2003. There was no talking for the first five innings, and [...]

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Seagull Is Hit by Pitch
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Seagulls shouldn’t fly between Bisons and Bulls. One of the birds found that out during last Sunday’s Triple-A minor league game between the Buffalo Bisons and the Durham Bulls. The Bisons were batting in the bottom of the eleventh when a seagull flew between the pitcher’s [...]

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