Kila Ka'aihue is pronounced Kila Ka'aihue

The Royals won their first game of the season with a walk off shot by Kila Ka'aihue... which is easier to write than say.Truth be told, I cut and pasted it, so if I spelled it wrong, blame Yahoo Sports.But I had no idea how to pronounce it, so I went to Wikipedia.This is what they had for the pronunciation:That's not helping me.What's the point of a pronunciation guide if you need to get ANOTHER

A March game that could haunt Milwaukee in late September

Yeah I know it is early.It isn't even April. So with 161 games left to play, why is this game between Cincinnati and Milwaukee so important?It is true that there is a lot of time to make up this one game deficit. But these two teams could be two of biggest contenders for the National League Central crown. And guess what? If these two teams go down to the wire, every game in September will be

Not a bad opening act!

The season was less than 4 hours old and we already had a 3 run, 2 out walk off come from behind wiping away a 2 run deficit game winning homer.Hopefully this is a harbinger for things to come in a great baseball season.Hey Cincinnati... pay attention. You've got a great team.Hey baseball... pay attention. There is an exciting team that could become THE team in a very wide region. But I said that

John Lowenstein and the need for baseball on YouTube

Today is John Lowenstein's birthday and I was going to do a little tribute to a classic late 1970s player with great hair and ubiquitous in my packs of Topps cards.He had the classic 1970s stache, the hair that poured out of his head and wore not only the bright orange Orioles uniforms from the great 1979 World Series but the ugly red unis worn by the mid 1970s Indians.He was a colorful character

Circling the bases with Bill Mazeroski 50 years ago

Today is the 50th anniversary of Bill Mazeroski's homer that ended the 1960 World Series. I've seen pictures and clips of it since I was a kid. And I've always been struck by something in this famous celebration picture.There were kids running up to congratulate Mazeroski. There were also his teammates. Then there is a blue collar guy right behind Mazeroski.Then... there's this guy.The guy in the

Hey! The Angels game is over!

Bobby Abreu finally had enough and hit one out.I have a question for you Angels fans who were actually still there in the 14th.Did you get any reward by the Angels for sticking around?A pin. A ticket. A stuffed monkey.If you were there to the end, then you don't need to prove your loyalty to the Angels in any other way.

But where was the HUMAN ELEMENT to Brian McCann's homer?

I am sure people who HATE instant replay in baseball were disgusted by what happened in Atlanta today.Brian McCann hit a ball that was originally not ruled a homer.It wasn't a walk off homer.And then the umpires got together... and saw something.The ball cleared the fence.It turns out Brian McCann did indeed hit a walk off homer.And guess what? The cameras caught it. And the umpires, who have a

Kirk Gibson's homer as recreated by RBI Baseball

I have no idea how long it takes to recreate these games with RBI baseball... but I think it was worth every nanosecond.This kind of insanity makes me so happy.

Nothing wrong with winning...

The Red Sox shouldn't have gone into extra innings today... and once against a good Dice-K outing was spoiled by one bad inning.And the Red Sox gained no ground because despite another lousy outing by Javy Vazquez (there's NO WAY the Yankees can pitch him in a playoff game, can they?) and a subpar outing by David Price... the Yankees and Rays both won.In other words they needed extra inning