Bloggin’ from Blair County, You Got Craig House-ed!!

I finally got to an Altoona Curve game at Blair County Ballpark and it is great! A must see ballpark. The atmosphere is great, it’s small but big enough; not a bad view in the house. And the roller coaster in the backdrop in the outfield is great. Having “GO CURVE” spelled out on the coaster cars doesn’t hurt either.

Aside from the normal in between innings antics that are most likely par for the course in AA ball, it was a great game. Curve was down 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth with two outs when the Baysox elected to have pitcher Craig House intentionally walk a batter to but Curve runners on first and second. A passed ball nullified that effort. The umpire blew what appeared to be a called third strike; the Curve batter then hit the next pitch down the left field line. House, the catcher and the Bowie manager were none too happy. Bottom line, Curve win 3-2

I thought the rule was you couldn’t argue balls and strikes and that was immediate ejection. Well the catcher did quite a job to show up the ump, as did the pitcher who was quite a hot head, glaring the ump after the inning. Then, the manager comes out of the dugout! WTF!!!

I’ll post a link to view the few pictures I took at the game, so long they come out, later this week. Stay posted.

What up with the Nomar to Cubs trade? This poor guy goes from one lovable loser to another. Let me get this straight Red Sox, you don’t get Arod, then you trade the shortstop you already have! OK, no wonder there is the curse of the bambino.

Jimmie Johnson is the modern-day Jeff Gordon. 24 times 2 is 48, JJ’s car number. He’s racing for Hendrick Motorsports and doing well. Yesterday he swept Pocono, winning the Pennsylvania 500.

The Tony Stewart spin-out wasn’t as fun for me as it should have been. I had him staring in my Nascar fantasy league this week!

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review actually has a good idea. I read where they are going to have their sports section in an easier to read tabloid format. Nice move Trib! The sports is something they do well, I hope they pack as much info in those pages as they do currently. They don’t have to “shove it” this time! I am not sure if this marks the end of the Trib P.M. publication, a Monday-Saturday afternoon paper which I also liked. It was especially nice because it had the scorecard in the sports section if the Pirates were home.

Welcome to NYC Kris Benson!