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Hello Baseball Fans, Hopefully your favorite teams and players are off to a hot start this year.  It’s no where near the All-Star break yet, you know the time when your team’s place in the standings becomes more critical.  That’s when your boys of summer can be deemed to be in it, or sadly, booking… Continue reading RULES GROUND DOWN

Hello Baseball Fans, The ’16 MLB regular season is about to begin.  The American and National League teams will all have their clocks reset to zero and zero in the win-loss columns.  Hopefully, that will be the only clock in the MLB, but that’s for another day.  From foul line to foul line, clubhouse brass and… Continue reading SWEET ’16

Hello Baseball Fans, We’re a mere handful of days before Spring Training kicks into high gear kids. Pitchers and catchers have already begun to start reporting to workout and hangout in the twilight of the 2015-16 off-season.  And what an off-season it’s been.  We’ve had the typical storm of player movement and simply awesome break-the-bank… Continue reading THIRTY 2; VFTD PICKS AT 6

Hello Baseball Fans, Happy New Year to all!  And congratulations to Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza.  They are headed to Cooperstown on the weekend of July 24th to deliver acceptance speeches as the Hall of Fame Class of 2016.  The centerfielder and catcher extraordinaire represent an awesome combination of talent that any team on… Continue reading RESOLVED RESOLUTION??

Hello Baseball Fans, The New York Metropolitans are in the 2015 World Series.  They chewed up the Chicago Cubs in Queens and spit them out like a piece of Wrigley’s.  Four games, four convincing wins.  Sticks.  Mitts.  Arms.  The Mets had it all on display.  And with Kansas City up three games to two and hosting Toronto tomorrow… Continue reading SERIES & STATES

Hello Fans, Yesterday, we lost one of the most loveable public figures the sport of baseball has ever seen.  Sadly, Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90 on the very same date that he broke into the majors back in ’46.  I do not think that is ironic nor coincidental.  I think that’s how it was supposed to… Continue reading HERE’S TO YOU, YOGI

Hello Baseball Fans, As you know, baseball can deliver something new, or at least something new to you, every single day.  Whether it be a crazy fielding play with an amazing dive, throw, or bounce or a batted ball that seemingly took flight, you just never know what you may witness.  Thus, another reason to… Continue reading WITNESS PARTICIPATION

Hello Baseball Fans, Here we go kids, the real season is about to start!  All those days of tanning and toasty temperatures in Arizona and Florida are just about to expire.  Teams will pack up, if they haven’t already, and head north, west, or east to play some games in considerably colder temperatures (yep, even… Continue reading SPRING INTO EASTER

Hello Baseball Fans, Well, here we are heading for Shakespeare’s infamous ‘ides of March’ while on a collision course towards St. Patrick’s Day, the seasonal equinox, and the official start of Spring.  We’re already on Daylight Savings Time and Spring Training, of course, is nearly half over and the games are now featuring big-time starting pitchers throwing a few… Continue reading FOR THE SMELL OF IT

Hello Baseball Fans, We’re inching ever closer to Spring Training 2015 style as pitchers and catchers report in less than a week.  YES!!  Perhaps a fan looking forward to the start of spring ball was the reason behind a most interesting quote having recently been passed along to us here at VFTD.  Here’s the line from the devoted… Continue reading A DECISION

Hello Baseball Fans, Late last night, we lost a great, great legend with the passing of Ernie ‘Mr. Cub’ Banks. He was 83 years young, just eight days short of his birthday.  And to say we lost a legend is to say that America, not just baseball, has one less all so friendly icon to look to… Continue reading EARNEST ERNIE

Hello Baseball Fans, Wow, where has baseball been all of fall and winter?  Check that, where have I been all fall and winter?!  Well, it’s a brand new year that hopefully will have lots and lots of brand new views from the best seat in the house, the Dish baby!  Here’s to a happy new… Continue reading TWENTY-FIFTEEN 1.0

Hello Fans, Last night was a hot start to the A.L. Divisional round series.  After dropping five of six regular season games to the Tigers, the Orioles exploded with eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to emphatically claim Game 1 and win 12-3.  Ironically, the O’s and Tigers haven’t played since April… Continue reading ROUNDERS II

Hello Fans, Well our Wild Card games, the instant Game 7 win-or-go-home style games definitely lived up to the billing of wilder than perhaps we imagined.  After a most entertaining and dramatic game between Oakland and Kansas City that saw the A’s blow a late 7-3 lead, score once in the top of the 12th, and then allow two runs by the… Continue reading ROUNDERS

Hello Fans, O.k., what a regular season 2014 was!  We said goodbye to the iconic ambassador, Derek Jeter (No. 6 all-time in hits as you know, but more on him in future articles), along with the ChiSox’ Paul Konerko (439 HRs, 1,412 RBI, .354 OBP), and perhaps some others (Adam Dunn, 462 HRs).  For the… Continue reading PLAY-INS & OUTS