Dodgers
The Trolley Dodger
Looking back over the past year of Dodger- and baseball-related posts here on Celsius1414 or, heck, the last couple of weeks, it should be pretty obvious that the subject has become pretty popular ‘round these parts. A glance at the tag cloud page confirms it.
I’ve been thinking of splitting off baseball content into its own website for some time now, and with the Hot Stove League in full swing, this seems as good a time as any to debut trolleydodger.com.
The Trolley Dodger website is a standalone blog dedicated to the Dodgers, affiliated teams, and baseball in general. There are a few posts there already, and while I won’t be transferring any existing stories here on Celsius1414 to the new site, I am really looking forward to covering one of my favorite topics in great verbosity over the coming months. Given the events of the off-season so far, there should be a lot to write about.
Celsius1414 will continue on as always, minus the new baseball stuff.
Thanks for reading!
Spring is officially official
My thoughts on the new baseball season at Trolley Dodger: “Open sesame!”
Does anyone else feel like this has been a frickin’ long off-season? Never mind the extra week of Spring Training thanks to the WBC (which was again a very cool experience), it feels like the end of the World Series was a really long time ago.
"It must be green!"
DJ Ruby Rhod:
What was that honey? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and all. Here are a few related Celsius1414 posts of yesteryear:
“Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!”
You might surmise from the surname, and you’d be correct, that today is a special day for yours truly. As fellow Irishman Vin Scully said prior to this morning’s first televised Dodger spring training game, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all, especially if it applies.” :)
“Irish and Jewish cuisine exchanges?”
Naomi over at Will Tell Stories For Food posted earlier today on a curious culinary coincidence, “Ethnic Food”, prompted by the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day.
The story starts out with the odd corned beef tradition on the holiday, which apparently started in the States, a dish which the Irish didn’t have back in Ireland. A cuisine that does have corned beef (or brined brisket at least) is Jewish.[…]
The plot thickens, too. Guess who likes lox.
“Guinness good for you. And the Pope is Catholic.”
Drink a Guinness for your health! The BBC is reporting on a study that shows a Guinness a day keeps the heart doctor away.[…]
Since I always feel better after having a pint of Guinness, this seems to confirm my findings. ;)
Almost £500,000 worth of Ireland’s world famous stout is lost each year in the moustaches and beards of imbibers of the creamy headed black stuff.
Research carried out in the UK by Guinness reveals that an estimated 92,370 moustachioed drinkers of the Irish brew lose up to 162,719 pints each year.
And from Grown Diaries over the weekend, “Ode to the Potato”
Being of Irish and German extraction, I am, as you might expect, enamored of the humble potato.[…]
It is thus with great pleasure that I point to today’s poetry entry from the ongoing and endlessly entertaining Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, “Ode to the Potato” by Barbara Hamby:
"They eat a lot of French fries here," my mother announces after a week in Paris, and she's right, not only about les pommes frites but the celestial tuber in all its forms: rotie, purée, not to mention au gratin or boiled and oiled in la salade niçoise.[...]
May 25th
This is a pretty spiffy day.
- The Phoenix landed safely and is already sending back amazing photos.
- Clayton Kershaw had his major league debut for the Dodgers, and while he didn’t get the win, he acquitted himself quite well, and the Dodgers wound up winning in the 10th inning off of Andre Ethier’s first career walkoff hit. Luis Maza also hit his first career homerun.
- This is Towel Day, honoring Douglas Adams, the hoopiest frood ever.
- It is the one-year anniversary of my epic Star Wars Day marathon.
- It also marks the beginning of a one-year countdown to the even-more-epic Alien vs Predator Saga movie marathon in 2009.
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
You might surmise from the surname, and you’d be correct, that today is a special day for yours truly. As fellow Irishman Vin Scully said prior to this morning’s first televised Dodger spring training game, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all, especially if it applies.” :)
The Dodgers are wearing their traditional green uniforms and caps to commemorate the day, and have added green bases as well. There’s a long history of celebrating March 17th at Dodgertown, which you can read about on Walter O’Malley’s official website, in the feature “St. Patrick’s Day Parties A Legend At Dodgertown”
I have a Guinness waiting in the fridge for later. This should be an especially tasty treat — it’ll be a celebratory drink, of course, but I also haven’t had a beer since before the bike accident, not wanting to get too interactive with the Vicodin. A beer and the first Dodger game on TV for the year — Brilliant! :)
There was an interesting story over on Slashfood a couple of days ago about how drinking habits in Ireland are changing to incorporate more wines and other fermentations, with a corresponding decline in Guinness sales. “Wine, instead of Guinness, for St. Patrick’s in Ireland”
Guinness sales are booming elsewhere in the world, so nothing to worry about for next St. Patrick’s Day. :)
