Baseball-less for the first post

 Hello, friends, family, baseball fanatics everywhere; welcome to my new blog, The Baseball Diaries. I figured I should start a new blog to talk all about baseball since the beginning of this season. I decided to wait until the end of the season because it's a great time to go on rants about acquisitions. Think about it, imagine if I started this blog this time last year and I had written a post about Jacoby Ellsbury signing with us (the New York Yankees), I would've perhaps blogged about... probably... maybe... for a century. Or, perhaps, if a team were to let go of some people I'd feel like were a necessity to a team's success, (no this is not about Robinson Cano, people) then I would blog about that. However, this is not all about my beloved Yanks and more about baseball in general (after all, it is what I would like to do when I'm older). So sit back, relax, and just wish baseball was on 24/7, 365 days a year. :)

 Since the season had just ended, I figured I should not only cry, but reflect on what this season was like in the eyes of andie. We shall call this segment on my blog,

just so it can flow nicely and make some sort of reference to my other blog, eyeslikewallflowers. ;) 

 Right off the bat, I knew this season was going to be a great one. How come? Long ago, towards the end of March, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks opened the season in Sydney, Australia. (Forget about that? It's okay, I [kind of almost] did, too.) What screams "this is going to be an awesome season" more than Clayton Kershaw and a baby kangaroo? 

I'll answer that for you, baseball fanatics, nothing! The two are just as cute as can be (and then there is he and his wife, Ellen, and they are a completely different story). 

  I'm going to be real, this baseball season was the most unpredicted, totally bonkers, season I have ever laid my two eyes on. Did you know the Boston Red Sox we're going to collapse again? No. Did you expect two wild card teams to battle it out in the World Series? Well, maybe... if you're going to believe the "San Francisco is winning every other year til the end of time" theory. 

so in odd years do the Giants just do ice cream socials instead of spring training?
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) October 17, 2014  

Yanks pitcher, Brandon McCarthy is just so funny on Twitter and so very accurate with this tweet

And it's totally okay if you did not predict the Giants would go on to win the entire thing, anyway. ESPN predicted that the Tampa Bay Rays would hold the best record in the American League and yet, they failed to make it above .500 all season long. Move over, Joe Maddon, andie's comin' through! (For those who don't know, I do not like the Rays [and the Red Sox...and the Tigers...and a lot of other teams, but I'll explain that a little ways down the road])

 I totally wish someone had kept track of how many almost no hitters there were this season, because boy, there were so many... Do you know how many times I could've gotten a free pizza from #Dominono? Yes, sure, there were five no-nos this year, (one of which was a combined no hitter from the Philadelphia Phillies) but holy moly, you guys, lots of these almost hit-less games were broken up in the eighth or ninth inning.  One of my favorite games this season happened to be when the Yanks were playing the Rays on 9/11 and we were being no-hitted up until the 8th inning. Chris Young (who we had just acquired from the Mets, may I tell ya) hit a double to break up Alex Cobb's streak going on and then Martin Prado ("The Prado of the Yankees") hits a pinch hit, two run shot to left. So, it is 4-2 come the 9th inning and Chris Young is up again and he drills a three run walk-off homer to left. Ballgame over the Yankees win, THHHHHEEEE YAANNNKKEEESSS WIN! ;) This just comes to show you that anything can happen in baseball and games can become so unpredictable. I love it. Fun Fact: All of the no hitters thrown this year are thrown from National League teams... what?

Oddly enough, everything seems to be drawing back to Clayton Kershaw... 

 You know what are rare? Triple plays! They are definitely one of my favorite things in baseball (alongside triples... another rare feat!) and they are great to see everyone's disbelief reaction towards it happening. This year in baseball there was six triple plays. Don't believe me? Here's the list of the teams who had done it: the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets, the Cleveland Indians, the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Colorado Rockies. I have a feeling I need a statistician to help me run this blog, because what on earth are the odds of that?
Fun Fact: The past three Yankee triple plays have all happened with C.C. Sabathia on the mound.
Another Fun Fact: The triple plays that the Mets and the Indians have played both occurred playing against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

 Now onto the most obvious change that started this year... Instant Replay. Baseball is turning into football, you guys! With this change, it shows you just how many mistakes an umpire can make in a simple game. It kind of stinks, really. Unlike football where you have two challenges, a manager has one. If the play is overturned, then the manager gets rewarded a second challenge; if the play is upheld, then the manager loses the challenge. I know sometime this year there was a conflict, like the manager could not challenge a play in the 9th because he lost his challenge earlier in the game. Something tells me it was the Diamondbacks, but I can't find any information. Grr...

 And as I wrap up my post, I'd like to acknowledge my favorite player of all time, Derek Sanderson Jeter. Yes, many players have retired this past year, including one of my favorite first basemen and fellow Captain, Paul Konerko, but I'd like to pay my RE2PECT ;) to Jete.

Derek Jeter had played since the time I came into this world and I feel like it is only fitting for him to retire the year I started college aka went off into "the real world". Growing up a Bronx Bombers fan, I  have received so much hate, however, this past season, almost everyone who dissed me had told me, "Jeter is the best. #RE2PECT!" Even Jayke, one of my best guy friends (who is a fan of that team... that I don't like... called the Boston Red Sox...) told me he respected the Captain, which I had no idea about until the last day of the season. This guy's a hall of famer for sure and I cannot wait until that day comes along. 

Maybe during his time off, me and "Philip" can go get some coffee or something. Tehe! :) 

 Well, as I wipe off my tears from my favorite season and publish my first post for The Baseball Diaries let me just say that I am super excited to blog about my first love, BASEBALL! Let the off season activities commence! :)