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As the close of the 67th California League regular season comes to an end, so does another year closer to the end of a Bakersfield baseball era. A club that has had over 200 former and current major league ball players is on the edge of extinction, but...
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By now we have heard all the propaganda by every media outlet pushing the change for instant replay to be implemented in Major league Baseball. However, with every decision there are pros and cons that must come with this decision. Some will argue for the implementation of instant replay saying...
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The state of minor league baseball in Bakersfield is what its always been in the past few years after the departing of the Bakersfield Dodgers. Bleak at best. I really think that Bakersfield as whole won't even notice when and if the Blaze are moved to the Carolina League. Sad? Yes,...
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I saw this article and that they had to be joking. A kid banned because he is too good of a pitcher!
Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player -- too good, it turns out.
Jericho Scott, 9, warms up on the pitching mound in New Haven, Conn. Saturday Aug. 23, 2008....
Jericho...
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So the Blaze may high tail it out of Bakersfield. Too blazing hot for them? Nah. But attendance is poor and Sam Lynn Ball Park has seen better days.
Can you blame the team for wanting to move? Maybe for wanting to move to Virginia.
Wouldn't it be great to turn Sam Lynn into something the whole...
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So ... I didn't know I was jinxing the poor saps falling asleep at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game (not to mention newspapers on deadline in the eastern half of the country) by saying it was like a softball game, then talking about 15-inning games in my last post.
They're into the 15th...
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Happy Bastille Day to everyone (French independence day, for the uninformed). Greetings from Las Vegas, perhaps one of the least French places (yeah, yeah, fake Eiffel Tower and all) on Earth but a city that actually has something to do with our baseball year in review segment today. It was...
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As you might expect, and as you might have already noticed, the number of posts at School House Zach is going to lessen a little bit here in the month of June. Not a whole lot of high school sports action going on.
There was an all-city baseball game last Friday night at Gerry Collis Field at...
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Ensley Gammel started celebrating Centennial's Division I Central Section softball championship before her final pitch even reached the plate.
It was a strikeout, resulting in the Golden Hawks' 2-1 victory at Madera on Friday in front of an overflow crowd that mostly consisted of blue-clad...
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Jonah Freedman with Sports Illustrated has written a behind-the-scenes tribute to Mets catcher Mike Piazza, who retired Tuesday. Jonah says he feels, in a way, he discovered Piazza when he and his dad drove up to Bakersfield from Los Angeles in 1991 and watched the young player hit the ball over...
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Good thing you weren't like the guy sitting next to me at the Stockdale-Clovis section championship baseball game Thursday evening. He got up and headed out with two outs and nobody on base in the seventh inning, with Stockdale down 6-3 and about to become bridesmaids again.
Well, this stinks...
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Can two rivals root for each other? If Bakersfield wants to sweep the Division I baseball and softball Central Section championships, folks at Stockdale and Centennial will have to. A day after the Mustangs baseball team held off Clovis West 5-3 in a D-I Valley semifinal, Centennial stymied...
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Forgive me for returning to a subject I've harped on before (and this probably won't be the last time, so ignore me if you like), but let's talk about the California Interscholastic Federation.
Why, oh why, do we have random sports with state championships and others with none? As great as local...
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It's championship week for high school sports here in the Central Section, and I've mentioned before this is my favorite time of year. It comes along three times, and for a fortnight at a time, the games and events don't just mean something — they mean everything for a lot of these kids.
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It's been an eternity since my last post here — if you hadn't noticed, we had a pretty big throwing story we ran this week, and we wrapped up section track finals. Anyway, my apologies. I promise to make up for it with a nice, long, involved playoff glance here.
Let's start in baseball....
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UPDATE — Checking back in with Division III and IV news.
Kern County is well represented in D-III, but I don't know how far any of the teams will go. South, which reached the championship game last year before falling to Dinuba, is the highest-seeded K.C. team at No. 5. The Rebels host...
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A big, big weekend in Kern County sports coming up. The last of the league titles will be decided tomorrow when SWYL play in baseball and softball finishes up. (Actually, 11-0 Centennial has already wrapped up that league title, regardless of what happens Friday).
Here's the spring league champs...
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Here's a quick update on the home run race I blogged about on Friday, which at first glance might appear to be over. Jarret Martin blasted three home runs, including a dramatic go-ahead shot with two outs in the seventh inning, giving him the Central Section record for home runs with 17....
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A heads-up to all you history buffs out there. Jarret Martin has already done, and Dustin Robinson is about to do something that hasn't been done in the Central Section in 42 years.
It's a home run chase between two Cetennial players, something out of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa,...
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The kitchen sink didn't make an appearance at Liberty's baseball field Thursday, but it was about the only thing that missed the party. To explain, I'll steal a line from my game story on Liberty's 10-8 victory over Stockdale.
Tootie’s home run actually was a relatively normal play in a...
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I've returned from a weekend getaway down in Orange County and have spent the day working/freaking out about everything that's about to happen. I say freaking out because (1) it's going to be a lot of work to organize and keep tabs on everything (but, hey, that's why they pay me the small bucks,...
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Bakosphere loves to giggle at work and this tab headline got (one of) us going.
The story is actually about a local couple who retrieve batting practice baseballs from behind the fences at Sam Lynn Ball Park in return for season tickets.
No word yet on whether the headline had an uplifting...
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Spring isn't usually the time for big crowds and high-tension moments in high-school sports, but today at Stockdale was an exception. They had the snack bar open between the baseball and softball diamonds for the first time since anyone I talked to could remember.
It was with good reason,...
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The Associated Press on Tuesday released the salaries of all ballplayers on major league rosters to start the season, which then set off the obvious but entertaining exercise of compiling 25 man rosters of the most over priced and the most under valued, or bargain basement players, in the game...
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I should have asked for Monday off. Better yet, I should have requested the entire week off. It's baseball season, and I can't get enough of it.
The only disappointing glitch, and it's a small one because I found a work around, is that the Cincinnati Reds' game...
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League play starts next week, and it's business as usual in Kern County baseball, with the Southwest Yosemite League sitting atop the heap.
The big guns, Stockdale and Centennial, are blazing in the early season to lead the league's charge. Centennial is 13-3 overall and 6-1 against the...
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My wife is an amazing woman. I talked all Monday about how I wanted to stay up and watch the season opener for Major League Baseball. You know the Red Sox-A's game. The game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. The one that started at 6 a.m. EST, errrrrr 3 a.m. in Bakersfield.
Don't worry if you missed...
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Sometimes it's hard to squeeze high school news out of spring break, but there seems to be a fair amount this week. We'll start football, everybody's favorite.
There was a news conference this weekend in L.A., and word is the state football championships likely are on their way out of the Home...
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Read this story in the Los Angles Times about the Dodgers playing the Red Sox March 29 in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and tell me . . . could you take Brad Penny 200-feet deep?
Know anybody with tickets? Know where you can get one or two?
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Being new to the area, I don't have much authority to comment on Liberty's hire of Tony Mills as its football coach. But from what I can tell, Mills will be a good fit. Here's why:
— He's already proven he can take a successful program and not miss a beat. After all, he did it with the...
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? That sentiment, poignantly expressed in the Simon and Garfunkel classic, Mrs. Robinson, carries with it, a whole new meaning today.
This whole new meaning is now contained in a whole new record, by yours truly, Dr BLT.
Remember, for better...
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This game doesn't count! I don't care what Bug Selig and the public relations/spin doctors at Major League Baseball keep pitching to fans.
Alex Rodriguez pulled up almost 10 feet in front of home plate as soon as he realized catcher Russell Martin had the ball as was waiting to tag him.
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When baseball's brightest gather in San Francisco for Tuesday night's All-Star game, they'll bring along a buzz of anticipation, the kind of excitement that only the game's top players can generate.
Willie Mays would...
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Barroid Bonds was voted in on the last day, overcoming a 119,000 vote deficit no less. They must love him in the Bay Area eh? Of course that is the home for this years AllStar Game.
The Boston Red Sawx and the Detroit Tigers lead with 5 players each selected this year. Pay-Rod(Alex Rodriguez)...
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Investigator Mitchell set to interview active players.
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said he expects interviews with active players to begin promptly as part of his investigation into steroids in baseball.
Mitchell sent a letter to the players' association in late March...
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On June 3, Major League Baseball will celebrate the 119th anniversary of "Casey at Bat." After nearly 120 years, Casey still rocks.
When Ernest L. Thayer wrote the baseball ballad in May of 1888, which later published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3 of that same year, it...
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So it was Opening Day at the Priest household and thankfully, the Cincinnati Reds played in the early game and the Minnesota Twins played the late game. Or there might have been a fight over the remote control.
I'm a Reds from birth -- probably even conception (not to be confused with Reds...
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Just wondering how many Tiger fans there are in BK? I'm originally from the Detroit area and my grandfather was a scout for the team as well as owning a couple of sports teams himself so we were around it all the time as kids.
Their pitching is excellent this year and is backed up with a...
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In no way am I a Florida Marlins fan (I'm a Dodgers and Angels fan). But after reading about Girardi being fired as manager (in other sports his position would be head coach) I think the Florida Marlins are making a terrible mistake. With basically a AAA minor league team playing (22...
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This absolutely pisses me off. The Dodgers were down 9-5 in the 9th inning, and hit two home runs to get within 9-7. Then, KNZR cuts the game off in the middle of the 9th inning with no outs!!! They turned the game to Coast to Coast AM with the dodgers down two. I love...
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