SB Nation User Blog: LongTimeFan

Happy Birthday, Blez!

LongTimeFan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:47:32 -0000

Where's the party?

Here's wishes for a wonderful day and a very happy birthday celebration. I

am sure you will get lots of AN love along with mine!

Wishing you much health and happiness and hope that all 4 of the Blezfamily can make it

to AN Day next season. I am looking forward to making friends with that new baby boy and renewing

my acquaintance with Miss Maya :)

Happy Birthday, and thanks being you and for all the behind the scenes AN work. Looking forward to seeing you

next year.

Did Billy Beane send you a birthday gift and you haven't told us yet?

AFL - SABR Fall League Conference November 12 -14, 2009

LongTimeFan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:20:24 -0000

The Arizona Flames SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) chapter is hosting its first Arizona Fall League Conference.
If you are planning to go to Fall Ball, you might consider one of these additional events.

The conference is now open to non-SABR members.

Arizona Fall League Conference - November 12-14, 2009. Tempe, Arizona.

Hotel registration at Embassy Suites is $99 per night. Register at the hotel online at:

www.embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/gropus/personalized/PHXTPES-FLC-20091112/index.jhtml

MORE INFORMATION: Call Rodney Johnson, 480-968-8065;

SABRrodney@aol.com

www.sabr.org

The fee for entire conference is just $75. A la carte, by the day listed below

Thursday, November 12:
Desert Dogs vs. Solar Sox at Phoenix Municipal Stadium; Round trip bus transportation from Tempe Embassy Suites; game program. Cost: $10

Friday, November 13:
--First Pitch breakfast featuring Diamondbacks GM Josh Byrnes; three-time MLB Executive of the Year Roland Hemond and AFL Director Steve Cobb.
--Phoenix Desert Dogs vs. Mesa Solar Sox at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
--Ballpark dinner at Scottsdale Stadium featuring speakers including MLB scouts, media and field personnel.
--Peoria Saguaros vs. Scottsdale Scorpions at Scottsdale Stadium.
--Round trip bus transportation from Tempe Embassy Suites to both ballgames.
--AFL Program and Media Guide Cost: $65

First Pitch breakfast Only: $35

Scottsdale Stadium cookout (4:30) and game only (guests must provide own transportation). Guest receive AFL program. Cost: $30

Saturday, November 14:
Peoria Saguaros vs Phoenix Desert Dogs at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. Round trip bus transportation to and From Tempe Embassy Suites; game program. $10

Full Conference Registration (All three days)Cost: $75

Arizona MLB Alumni Dinner featuring keynote speaker Luis Gonzalez. Awards to be presented to Andre Ethier (Dodgers); former Arizona Governor Rose Mofford; and other prominent Arizona baseball figures. (Dinner sold separately) Cost: $75

Happy Birthday !

LongTimeFan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:53:54 -0000

I know that M67 gave Baseballgirl the gift of taking over the front page post today...but now that I think about it, birthday best wishes to Baseballgirl deserve a post of their own. So feel free to add your favorite BBG story, picture or tagline or comment right here.

Happy Birthday, Christy. You are one of my most favorite AN people and I sure wish we could get together more often. But that's what roadtrips are for, right? Hope the celebration goes on and on.

Happy Birthday , Lynnzgal

LongTimeFan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:30:42 -0000

Better late than never, but I want to wish our newest AN Tailgate Diva Extraordinaire a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Rumor has it there will be fireworks in her honor on Friday night, hopefully after a spirited rendition of Celebration! Even better, let there be Celebration played tonight.

Lynn has done a great job with our tailgates, helped of course by an entire cast of chefs with BAG's and Cindi and her potato salad and the young baker who created that incredible AN cake for AN Day. The food has been abundant and delicious. Thank you Lynn for helping to make it happen and Happy Birthday!

Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame -Thursday Aug 6

LongTimeFan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:02:41 -0000

After drinking your fill or rootbeer floats and enjoying a game in the sun, consider coming to San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center - on Howard St, between 4th and 5th for an evening of baseball history.

Rare Films from The Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
Introduced by David Filipi, Curator of Film/Video at the Wexner Center for the Arts

"As this year’s baseball season rounds third and heads for home, we’re celebrating the national pastime with cinematic treasures from the National Baseball Hall of Fame that will entertain baseball fans and cinephiles alike. Tonight’s program includes footage of Jackie Robinson’s secret tryout with the Dodgers, congressional testimony by Mickey Mantle and Casey Stengel, hilarious commercials featuring Humphrey Bogart and Pete Rose, home movies of the Women’s Professional League, and much more! (Approx. 120 min, digital video)."

Tickets are just $8 and available online or at the door., More information at YBCA Baseball Film. This is a part of the YBCA series Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at Sports Films.

GO A's!

Staturday Resource - Emerald Guide to Baseball -Free download

LongTimeFan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:41:56 -0000

The Society for American Baseball Research is making the Emerald Guide to Baseball, 2009, by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette, available as a free dowload from the SABR website. It requires an email registration.

From SABR:

"SABR is pleased to help baseball fans cut expenses this season by publishing and giving away the The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009. Yes, we said "giving away." The guide, which fills the hole in the baseball record left by the 2006 demise of The Sporting News Baseball Guide, contains detailed statistics for every player at every level of the professional game, team histories, and up-to-date team contact information and schedules.

Baseball fans anywhere in the world—both SABR members and non-members—can download the PDF version of the book free of charge from the SABR website at www.sabr.org.

Edited by acclaimed baseball historians Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, The Emerald Guide distills the 2008 season down to 586 fact-filled pages that contain the pitching, fielding, and hitting statistics for each player active in the major and minor leagues in 2008. As with the classic Sporting News Guides, the Emerald Guide also features team-by-team daily results, a directory of important contacts, a synopsis of the just-completed season, and much more. A bound version is available via print on demand at Lulu.com for $23.95. Every page in the bound edition is in the PDF.

Why are we doing this? Well, part of SABR's mission is to disseminate the history and record of baseball, and that's exactly what we're doing. If you find this book valuable, please consider joining SABR if you aren't already a member. And feel free to send friends and family to www.sabr.org so they can get their free PDF of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009. "

Where's the party?

LongTimeFan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:31:52 -0000

Happy Birthday, Blez!

I hope that you and the family are celebrating your birthday. Here's wishing you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and that next year is a good one. Looking forward to seeing you more often next season at the ballpark, too.

Thank YOU for the gift of AN, cause we enjoy it everyday. I know we all appreciate the hard work that goes on behind the scenes.

Happy birthday to you!

(and if I missed another post saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLEZ!, well you can't say it often enough)

I am going to the A's Booster Club Holiday party tonight. I'll let you all know if I hear anything of interest.

Happy Birthday, BaseBallGirl!

LongTimeFan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:15:04 -0000

Where's the party?

Hope you are celebrating all day/week/month! Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, and since you didn't get what you/we all wanted this year...(maybe you should've booked another cruise?) ...wait till next year or the next!

I am looking forward to celebrating many more BBG birthdays with A's playing October baseball. It was quite the thrill a couple years ago, wasn't it?

Here's love from AN and lots of love from me, too.

Happy Birthday to YOU!

Vote Daily ! Bill King for Frick Award

LongTimeFan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:52:20 -0000

Fan voting for the Frick award has opened at the Baseball Hall of Fame website : Frick Award Voting .

"Once again this year, fans have the opportunity to be a part of the process for selecting the 2009 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to a baseball broadcaster for major contributions to the game.

Three of the 10 names on the final Frick Award ballot will be chosen by fans throughout the month of September. Select up to three (3) candidates from the ballot below. You may vote once each day during the month of September. The final 10-name ballot, featuring the three fan selections, will be announced on Dec. 9, 2008."

Our votes have helped get Bill on the ballot in the past . Let's do it again.

I miss hearing Bill call the game and talk about baseball, A's baseball, road trips, restaurants, the weather. His stories were the best.

DLD 8.15.08 Wake Up! A's "might" stay in Oakland

LongTimeFan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:02:02 -0000

Mayor Ron Dellums sees some renewed hope for the A's chances of staying in Oakland.

Two weeks after A's owner Lew Wolff said he wasn't sure if he would succeed in building a proposed 32,000-seat stadium in Fremont, Dellums told the Tribune he's prepared to do anything "within reason" to keep the A's in town.

Article in today's Tribune Dellums hopes A's stay in Oakland.

Long way to go, but as Skigurl was saying yesterday, Robert Bob is back in Oakland, and he has been very supportive of keeping the A's here. Now this is the kind of rumor I really like. Stay A's!