The Travel Channel show Man v. Food is touring minor league parks tonight at 10pm ET. I talked to some of the people who make the food that host Adam Richman will sample tonight for an ESPN article, but the quotes I selected aren’t going to make it into the finished product, so I’m going [...]
Archive for September, 2009
27 Sep
Important Dates For Fall And Winter Baseball Leagues
Browsing MLB.com this afternoon, I found a page with some important dates for various Fall and Winter Leagues, so I thought I’d post them. October 9 – Mexican Pacific League Opening Day October 9 – Venezuelan Winter League Opening Day October 13 – Arizona Fall League Opening Day October 16 – Dominican Winter League Opening [...]
27 Sep
United States Wins Baseball World Cup, 10-5, Over Cuba
The 2009 Baseball World Cup came to an end today when the United States used a six-run seventh inning to defeat Cuba, 10-5. The Americans had two outs and nobody on before Tug Hulett walked, Buck Coates doubled, and Trevor Plouffe reached on an error to open the floodgates. It was the second consecutive World [...]
25 Sep
Bus Leagues Contest: Win A Copy Of Joe Posnanski’s “The Machine”
Thursday was one of those “good news, bad news” days. The good news: I received a copy of Joe Posnanski’s “The Machine” in the mail from Harper Collins (I’m still not entirely sure why this happened, but at least it made me feel important). The bad news: I already bought the book a couple days [...]
24 Sep
Tales From The Minors, As Told By A Minor Leaguer
Almost every other day, it seems, I find a great new minor league-related blog or web site. Today’s find was Life in the Minors, a blog written by Giants minor leaguer Garrett Broshuis. One of his recent entries, “Notes on a bus trip,” had me laughing from the second paragraph on: 10:37 pm: I’m talking [...]
23 Sep
There’s A New Team In Richmond
After a one-year absence, minor league baseball has returned to Richmond, Virginia. Officials announced earlier today that the Eastern League’s Connecticut Defenders franchise, which just lost in the championship round to the Akron Aeros, will move to Richmond in time for next season. The team will play at The Diamond (the ballpark that contributed to [...]
20 Sep
Giants Prospect Angel Villalona A Murder Suspect
Saturday night, a 25-year-old man named Mario Felix de Jesus Velete was shot to death in the Dominican Republic. Earlier today, a suspect, 19-year-old Angel Villalona, voluntarily turned himself in to local police. The fact that Villalona is a person of interest in this case is noteworthy because he is a person of interest to [...]
20 Sep
Minor League Players and Pitchers of the Year (So Far)
About one-third of Major League Baseball’s thirty teams have announced minor league players and pitchers of the year for 2009. Atlanta Braves: Jason Heyward (Myrtle Beach/Mississippi/Gwinnett) and Craig Kimbrel (Rome/Myrtle Beach/Mississippi/Gwinnett) Baltimore Orioles: Brandon Waring (Frederick/Bowie) and Brian Matusz (Frederick/Bowie) Boston Red Sox: Ryan Kalish (Salem/Portland) and Casey Kelly (GCL Red Sox/Greenville) Chicago Cubs: Kyler [...]
19 Sep
In Pedro They Trust
Pirates fans have plenty of reason to look at their franchise and feel a sense of doom. It’s bound to happen when the team hasn’t had a winning season in seventeen years and call for its contraction on an almost monthly basis. There is, however, some good stuff mixed in with the crap. Andrew McCutchen [...]
13 Sep
This Week in Bobbleheads – Remainder of 2009 edition
At this point in the regular season of 2009 baseball only Major League giveaways remain, but that doesn’t mean that this part of the Bus Leagues Blog shuts down. Over the course of the promotional offseason, I’ll go through the year that was such as favorites, unusuals, and invite all of you that read here [...]
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