https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CAAPDdLxLU As a woodworking hobbyist and a longtime baseball lover, Jim Anderson wanted a fun way to honor the birth of his first child. So, after seeing an ad for trophy bats in a mail order catalog, he decided to make one of his own. "My friend and I made this bat," he said. "We had no idea what we were doing but were both intrigued by the process of turning something out of wood." But something about the bat didn't look right. "I knew it would look weird i
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCJJTFeKXSo Play-by-play guys and color commentators have an important job. For many, they are the trusted source of information when watching a baseball game on TV, or listening on the radio. It's only natural that you'd expect the things they say to be true. But occasionally they get it wrong. And sometimes, they get it really wrong. When Jim Anderson, founder of MAX Bats, heard Dick Bremer and Bert Blyleven opine against the use of maple bats during one o
I really hold back what I would like to say about then payroll arguments here. The fact that people don't accept the amount taken in dictates the amount going out requires one of two things. Extreme financial ignorance or fanatical bias that prevents the acceptance of something some basic. I did not change the argument. It's the same idiocy over and over. Do you really want to be on the side that suggests revenues does not determine spending capacity?
At this point in the pre-season, I’m just so happy to be seeing games again, I don’t care about the Twins record in 2023. I think they’ll win it all, unrealistically speaking 🙂