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Meeting a Legend
September 6, 2009 in Baseball, Life, Memories, SportsFourteen years ago today, Cal Ripken, Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive baseball game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s long-standing record. I remember that day like it was yesterday, and I was proud to call myself a Baltimoran. Since it’s the anniversary of the record being...
Playoff Bound
December 28, 2008 in SportsWhen football season started a few months ago, most were predicting the Atlanta Falcons would win two games. Today, they won the final game of the season, heading into the playoffs with an 11-5 record and coming just shy of winning the division. The...
Ohio Weekend, Part 1: The Colonel and the Cincinnati Reds
September 22, 2008 in Baseball, Family, Life, Marriage, Sports, TravelGood afternoon! We pulled into the driveway at 6 a.m. and were up 5 hours later to head to Emory for my ultrasound. Needless to say, we are exhausted. Joe’s taking a quick power nap but, since we have to be up around 5...
The Weekend that Was
September 7, 2008 in Baseball, Cats, Grrr, Life, Sports, Trying to Conceive (TTC)I had a very lazy weekend, and I really enjoyed it. We slept in *really* late yesterday because Callie kept us up all night, and then after a quick lunch, Joe got ready and headed to Atlanta for Jon’s bachelor party. I settled on...
Football Tickets
August 28, 2008 in Life, Shopping, SportsI really want to go to an Atlanta Falcons game this year. Yes, I know the Falcons suck. According to a recent story on Yahoo!, Atlanta is the worst city for sports. But, despite the fact that will most likely lose the game, I...
bring on the olympics
August 10, 2008 in Sportshave any of you been watching the olympics? we watched off and on this afternoon and while there are some olympic sports that still surprise me (ping pong and badminton anyone?), there are several that i always watch: swimming, diving and gymnastics. we watched...
class act to reach third milestone
April 22, 2008 in Baseball, Sportswhat do the numbers 200, 150 and 3,000 have in common? they’re all milestones reached by atlanta braves pitcher john smoltz. well, almost all have been reached. tonight, smoltz is expected to reach 3,000 strikeouts. he comes into tonight’s game against the nationals only...
the power of the rally cap
April 1, 2008 in Baseball, Life, Marriage, Memories, Sportsi’m not one for sports superstitions. when joe told me how he and a college roommate spent an entire baseball game sitting indian-style on the floor because they thought getting up would cause the braves to lose, i laughed. when he put his baseball...
a comedy of errors
March 31, 2008 in Baseball, Life, Sportsjoe and i watched a show of atlanta braves bloopers last night. at least that’s what it seemed like we were watching. the first inning of the braves vs. nationals last night was anything but good. it was a bad throw here and a...
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