Dodgers

I haven’t really written about sports on here but I do happen to be a sports fan. I follow football (both college and the NFL) and men’s college basketball but the sport that I love the most is baseball. I love the history of it, I love the excitement of it and I love the perfection of it.

My team is the Los Angeles Dodgers. I actually got to watch an entire series this past weekend because they were playing the Mets so it was televised where I live (Central New York,) three of the games were on the Sports New York channel which simulcasts all the New York Mets games broadcast on channel 11 out of New York City. Saturday’s game was actually the game of the week on Fox. Usually the Dodgers are hardly ever on TV around here. I think they’ve been on ESPN once this year (for the 50^th anniversary of Jackie Robinson playing in the majors) and as far as I know, they are scheduled to be on for a late season game against the hated San Francisco Giants. There were also a couple of games on TBS when they played the Atlanta Braves. Mostly I listen the radio broadcasts of games on the internet, for a small fee you can listen to every game on MLB.com, it’s a really good deal, I almost prefer to listen to games on the radio anyway, there’s just something enjoyable about baseball on the radio.

During my internet surfing this weekend, I happened to come across the fact that two former and one current Dodger players all share a birthday today: shortstop Pee Wee Reese, pitcher Don Drysdale and current third baseman, Nomar Garciaparra. Reese and Drysdale are both in the Cooperstown and hopefully one day Garciaparra will be too.

Go Dodgers!