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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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Braden, A Rod, pitchers' mounds, and superstition
Oakland pitcher Dallas Braden had a perfect game on Sunday, only the 19th in major league history. This isn't Braden's first appearance of late in national sports headlines, about three weeks ago when the Yankees played in Oakland, Braden criticized Yankee Alex Rodriguez for jogging across the pitcher's mound on his way back to the dugout between innings.
We've had several lively conversations at the stadium - boring evenings like yesterday provide ample time to kick issues like this around - whether this is enough of a well established baseball tradition that A Rod should have known about it and respected it; or whether Braden was being unnecessarily picky.
I share more than a few supersitions about baseball. To quote Crash Davis, the iconic minor league catcher played by Kevin Costner in the movie BULL DURHAM; "A player on a streak should respect the streak, and you should know that!" I am uneasy to hear early season predictions that we will be in post season play again this year; that an injury to a key player will heal quickly; that good luck or bad will continue. The tradition of "the curse of the Bambino" intrigues me, I don't think I would say out loud that I didn't believe it.
So I've been asking co workers - was A Rod wrong to run across the mound? Have you seen other fielders take that route? Was Braden being too smart mouthed to have made it an issue in the press?
Opinions are divided. What say you?
We've had several lively conversations at the stadium - boring evenings like yesterday provide ample time to kick issues like this around - whether this is enough of a well established baseball tradition that A Rod should have known about it and respected it; or whether Braden was being unnecessarily picky.
I share more than a few supersitions about baseball. To quote Crash Davis, the iconic minor league catcher played by Kevin Costner in the movie BULL DURHAM; "A player on a streak should respect the streak, and you should know that!" I am uneasy to hear early season predictions that we will be in post season play again this year; that an injury to a key player will heal quickly; that good luck or bad will continue. The tradition of "the curse of the Bambino" intrigues me, I don't think I would say out loud that I didn't believe it.
So I've been asking co workers - was A Rod wrong to run across the mound? Have you seen other fielders take that route? Was Braden being too smart mouthed to have made it an issue in the press?
Opinions are divided. What say you?
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