For those of you who enjoy reading what Teddy Ballgame puts up on The Baseball Zealot, you might be interested to know that he’s got his own blog now.
Whatteddsedd.com will contain the daily spewings of Teddy. Near as I can tell, it will be an eclectic sort of blog which is a nice way of saying he talks about just about everything.
Seriously, check it out.
Posts will be light for about week or so, at least from me. I’ll be in the hospital starting Monday for some med tests. Long story but it’s nothing serious.
Fortunately, they’ll have wireless in the room so I’ll have Internet access (so maybe you’ll hear from me anyway) and a TV so I can catch the World Series.
For everyone in the USA out there, I hope you’re having a happy 4th of July!
Remember the old adage about freedom….
Rights, use ‘em or lose ‘em.
Anyway, have a good one!
I redesigned the site a bit (if you haven’t noticed). The grey motif was getting to me and I thought we needed a banner image.
Comments welcome and please let me know if you notice anything broken.
Gravatars
I’ve enabled Gravatars, a form of avatars, on the site. They’ll show up next to any of your comments. If you don’t have one already, you can upload one at Gravatars website for free. Until you do, I’ve provided a picture of a baseball that looks a whole lot better than the default ones they provide you.
We’ll give it a try for a while… if there’s no interest. We’ll scrap it. Meanwhile, you get to see my ugly mug next to each of my comments.
Simyard
Teddy Ballgame has been talking up Erick Robertson’s online fantasy baseball game, Simyard for a while so I got my butt over there and signed up. The basic deal is free and more advanced stuff costs a bit more. I haven’t played any but I was able to look around and it does look interesting. Maybe if Teddy and CLuke sign up we can a Zealot league going.
College Baseball Blog Interview
With the college baseball postseason in full swing, Brian Foley from The College Baseball Blog is making the rounds with interviews. He was interviewed by The World Ford Sports Show recently.
I’ve enabled nested commenting on the blog now. That will allow you to reply to individual comments on posts giving it more of a “discussion” feel.
It should be pretty user-friendly. If you want to reply to a particular comment, click on “Reply” next to comment you want to respond to. Otherwise, post your comment a normal.
Any problems, let me know.
Back to Gametracker, Illinois is winning 6-1!
Happy Birthday to The Baseball Zealot! Three years ago, I posted the first article for this blog. Coincidentally, it is also the birthday of TBZ co-author Teddy Ballgame.
I gave Teddy a call today over the lunch hour to wish him a happy birthday. I got the latest on the White Sox news. Teddy was hoping to go to the Sox game tonight but as everything with the Midwest lately, it was dependent on the weather. He didn’t neglect to tell me that Joe Crede was leading the AL in rbis. Good thing I kept him on my APBA team.
I updated him on my fantasy auction draft from yesterday. I got Brandon Phillips late in the draft for a song ($7) and my opening bid for Tim Lincecum for $5 went uncontested.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the blog. Here’s to another year!
-tbz
We’re now upon college baseball season and I plan to do a lot of coverage of the Illini. As I found out at the Big Ten Tournament last year, there are one or two who read those posts.
For those who wish to use RSS and are only interested in University of Illinois baseball related articles, you can use The Baseball Zealot Illini feed and plug into your favorite news aggregator like Google Reader.
There’s a handy RSS link on the right sidebar along with a link that will take you to all Illini baseball stuff (the ol’ fashioned way).
We’ve had some issues with RSS lately. Hopefully, they are solved by now. For those of you using readers and are still experiencing trouble, make sure you are pointing to this address.
my apologies for any inconvenience.
I want to take the time to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope everyone had a nice holiday season.
Yes, it’s the dead of winter (it was 0 degrees as I walked to work yesterday) but don’t worry, baseball is on its way!!
31 days till pitchers and catchers report for spring training
50 days till the University of Illinois’ first game of the season at the Al Ogletree Classic
88 days till the Chicago Cubs opening day (it’s a home opener!)
90 days till the University of Illinois’ home opener against St Louis
A timeline to warm the heart.
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