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Early season prediction of how 2011 Red Sox would rival 1927 Yankees as greatest team in history... Hmm.

Sorry, I had to, I'm a Yankees fan and Mandi is an O's fan... 

Moneyball

A new movie is coming out this weekend called Moneyball starring Brad Pitt who portrays Billy Bean, the manger of the Oakland A's who was really the groundbreaking GM in terms of using modern advanced statistics in evaluating players as opposed to relying on the human eye of scouts. While the A's haven't won a championship, they certainly became a wonder-team for several years during Beane's tenure. Mandi and I will be watching this weekend, hopefully!

The Stadium Shmadium Tour 2: Make It Stop (Pittsburgh Pirates)

The second installment of the Stadium Shmadium Tour, PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Another hilarious entry for these guys. I'd say the best part is Dave's "winning streak" of questioning the knowledge of the Pirates' fans. Hilarious.

Ninemoreouts Stadium Shmadium Tour

As the baseball season winds down and my job is becoming increasingly more demanding, Mandi and I will likely be unable to review any more stadiums and games this season. With that said, I'm going to introduce you all to some of my favorite videos on Youtube and will link some of their videos on our page. The premise is that three best friends get together for a trip each year to a baseball game and become that home team's biggest fans for a day. They have some pretty humorous stuff - here's their first one, for the Blue Jays. Probably my favorite lines are regarding the pitch speeds in centimeters/hour to poke some fun at the metric system. You can watch below, or click here!

Enjoy! Thanks to Scott, Dave and Mike for letting us post their videos on our website!

Standby in the future for more of Ninemoreouts' videos as well as a second post regarding the Corpus Christi Hooks! 

Nick Swisher and Wife Plan "Honeymoon" to Afghanistan

Yup, you read that right - they're doing it to visit troops over there. All the more reason to love the fun-loving right-fielder for the New York Yankees.

Columbus (GA) Yankees featured in ESPN's Uni-Watch for Confederate Flags

ESPN runs a column called Uni Watch that looks at some interesting and notable uniforms throughout the decades of sports. This one I found to be particularly interesting as it details how the Columbus, GA Yankees, a AA affiliate of the New York Yankees from 1964-1966 and were often known as the Columbus Confederate Yankees (ironic, I know), wore a Confederate "Stars and Bars" Flag on their sleeves - including their black players. (You can see Yankee Roy White in the uniform, above.) Today, I think many people would be aghast at that, but Uni Watch did some thorough investigating as to the background of the patch and whether it was sinister racism at play, a marketing ploy, or an afterthought that is a bigger deal nowadays. You can read Paul Lukas' article here.

Indians Band Together to Help One of Their Own

A great story about how the Indians banded together to chip in $35,000 to rent a private jet so that journeyman infielder Jack Hannahan could rush back to Cleveland to see his wife give birth to their (very) premature baby. Read the story here, it's a good one of all you baseball cynics out there.