Happy Birthday 1st to my Blog!

My blog is now exactly one year old. I have written exactly 260 posts (inlcuding this one) and work now at two different websites Outside Pitch Sports Network and Sports Unbiased (as you may have guessed because I am always promoting them). Today I'm gonna share my very first post with you as well as some others that I have liked as a birthday present to my blog! 

I also wanted to announce a new blog that I am going to have. I will be moving this blog from blogger to Word Press. It's not completed yet but the address of it will be http://BBSTmlb.com I will continue to bring the latest MLB news and updates my self and may or may not keep up with my daily updates (they're tougher to do than you'd think, I may go every other day - unless I just write the headlines so you get the basics of the day. I am not sure! Anyone have any comments?? please leave them! I am terrible at making decisions). Each week on a connected blog called "Relative Replays: Behind the Bullpen Chatter" that I will be co-authoring with my baseball loving mother, Barbara - well I'm not sure yet - we'll probably pick a big headline for the week and either debate or just discuss it .... It's all in the works and as soon as it is ready I will let it be known on this blog!! I'm working on it!

I hope one day to make the new blog much bigger and better than this one! My mom and I can be pretty funny and we both know entirely too much about the game ... I haven't decided on what to do with this one yet ... but I will keep you posted! But I will be doing most of my blogging with links to my articles on the new blog so PLEASE FOLLOW MY NEW WORD PRESS BLOG: BBTSmlb.com. But not yet because it's not fully functional! lol! Thanks! Enjoy my little collection of blog posts ... AND HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY BULLPEN, BASEBALL & SOCK TALK! YAY! 

• First Post, First Pitch - May 9, 2013
• In Response to Jon Heyman's Comments re: The Coliseum - May 29, 2013
• History of Oakland A's Socks Girl - June 17, 2013
• 2013 Oakland A's Playoff Predictions - October 4, 2013 (I was wrong but whatevs)
• First attempt at a Video Blog! - October 16, 2013
• Shibe Park 1909-1976: A little Athletics History Lesson - January 14, 2014 
• Young to Retire & a whole litany of other things (got a bit off topic) - January 30, 2014
• Salary Arbitration and Hearings Explained - February 1, 2014
• My Prediction Comes True! AJ Burnett to the Phillies - February 12, 2014
• MLB Network's Face of MLB Competition: Just Who Is This Guy With the Glasses? - February 22, 2014
• Bold Prediction: Billy Burns Makes A's Opening Day Roster - March 13, 2014
• A's Prospect Billy Burns is so Fast he'll make you say " Billy Hamilton? Who?" - April 10, 2014
• My First Two Podcast Appearances - April 16, 2014

Ok that's it for now, for today at this point but you never know - if I have more time I will write more! Check back! Thanks for reading! I truly appreciate it!

xoxo ~ Jen

My New Weekly Column is Debuting Tomorrow on Sports Unbiased!!

So tomorrow at noon Eastern time and nine am Pacific time my new weekly column will be debuting on Sports Unbiased!! So PLEASE check it out!! 

The title of my new weekly series of articles is 2014 Oakland Athletics: Life of an MLB Season Ticket Holder. I am starting tomorrow going to be chronicle the season for the entire year ... because as all A's fans and die hard baseball fans know there is ABSOLUTELY no such thing as the off-season ... it's like, "what? I've never heard of such a thing!" .. LOL! Yes we all mourn the end of a season but there are trades and deals and the winter meetings and arbitration fights ... and yes, football and basketball and hockey to get us through the off-season ... but mainly let's just stick to the baseball stuff! Why? Because baseball is the greatest sport EVER and it should be treated as such! LOL! Now I am just being silly and making myself laugh ...

So back to my new column it is! I'm gonna talk about everything from the sometimes tediousness of having to get up, get ready and get to the yard six days straight, to the joys of seeing a Perfect Game(which we all know probably will not happen this year depending upon how bad the Astros are ... oh! I like the Astros! That was so mean ... but true) or a Complete Game Shut Out or a No-Hitter or a 18th inning walk-off single off Mariano Rivera (thank you Nate Freiman for FINALLY ending that marathon in the sun!)  ... but you get the ideas I am trying to get across here ...right?

Sometimes being the most hard core fan is the most rewarding thing in the world, sometimes you come home just wanting to kill yourself or you find yourself yelling at your empty Bud Light can in its #OaklandKoozieSwag saying youre gonna throw it at the television (oh wait .... what do you mean that doesn't happen to you guys?? Wait a min ....) But no matter how happy or how miserable you are there really isn't a bad thing to say about baseball .... 

It's the greatest sport the world has ever known and its history is so rich both before and after the modern era .... the amazing amount of time this game has been played and there have only been what? 24 PG's in well over 100 years and I was present for one! That's someone watching out for you right there ... that kinda shit doesn't happen ... like I hugged the President ... I mean how often do you get that chance ... odds are it's more often than seeing a PG and I've done both. Now before I die I just want to meet Troy Aikman and be at a World Series game that the A's are playing in and preferably one they win (and preferably win the whole thing but I will take what I can get depending on the circumstances) .... 

Ok, again caught rambling off topic .... so PLEASE REMEMBER MY NEW COLUMN GOES LIVE TOMORROW ON SPORTS UNBIASED at Noon Eastern Time (9am for us West Coasters) ... PLEASE Check it out! Leave comments, love it - hate it - lemme know how to improve it because I am gonna be promoting it for a year so if you hate it you just might wanna make a suggestion or two!!! LMAO! But in all seriousness I'm excited about having this opportunity to share my baseball experience with all of you ... it means so much to me and I hope that everyone has something that means as much to them! SO CHECK OUT MY COLUMN: 2014 Oakland Athletics:Life of an MLB Season Ticket Holder on Sports Unbiased tomorrow at 12pm ET/9am PT!! Thank you and as always ..... 

LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!!!