Revival

Have neglected this blog for more than a year. Just decided to check it again after my uncle mentioned to me that he stumbled upon it.

...while I would really like to keep this a blog that is strictly about baseball, I am tempted to post my picture on my trip to Sydney last week. I stayed with my cousins there for two weekends while I spent one whole week at our Sydney office learning from my peers.

IT was a wonderful trip more so because I haven't really been anywhere for more than a year...even Cebu which I miss a lot.

If you happen to be someone from outside the Philippines, I strongly urge you to visit my country. It has lots of nice places that you will find interesting. Just look beyond our airport and our capital because they really are quite iffy hehehe

But remember, Manila is just a small, small part of the country.

Jay

Boston Red Sox and The Chicago Cubs

Hi! It has been sometime since my last post.

Yesterday, the Red Sox played the Chicago Cubs. THe cubs won by a big margin and got 20 hits out of the Red SOx. Very one sided!

Interleague play began only three years ago so these two teams never played each other because the only way that was possible before was for them to be in the world series at the same time. Chicago last won the world series in 1908! And they last time they played there was 1945. BOston has always been my heartbreak club but Chicago really has been worse!

Last year, the red sox were finally able to break the jinx and won their first world series since 1918! Very Happy day!

...Will the Cubs finally go to the World Series this year? The best would be to have them make it and have the REd SOx on the other side. That would be just classic!

Shop PBS - Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 10PK (DVD)

Shop PBS - Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns 10PK (DVD)

For people who are just beginning to fall in love in baseball, This is the ultimate baseball movie. A classic documentary that covers the sport from its history in the early 1800's up to the 90's.

It just doesn't focus on the sport itself. It talks about issues common to American society and baseball.

But the footages of all the baseball heroes are fantastic.

I first saw this documentary on the discovery channel in 1997. They showed one chapter every saturday morning. Needless to say, it was a good reason to wake up early on weekends!


I finally got a copy last year on DVD. BOught it on ebay for $100. Worth more than this to me.

Jay Araullo

ESPN Outdoors

ESPN Outdoors

click on this link to see Ted William's angling prowess...some people consider him to be the best flyfisherman of all time.

Jay

Boston Red Sox

Baseball is not really that popular here in the Philippines (Filipinos are basketball CRAZY!). You may be wondering why someone like me, who hasn't even been anywhere near the US, can be so crazy about baseball.

My grade school back in the early 80's had an above average library. When I was ten, I was extremely interested in sports. I was such a big fan of U-TEX, a professional basketball team in the PBA (Philippine Basketball Association), one of the underdogs of the league. Anyway, I'll write about U-Tex another time. So while browsing for books about basketball, I would skim other books about other sports. One of the first books that I brought out was about six guys who won the Triple Crown of Baseball. Let me see if I got them right...

Lou Gehrig 1927

Joe Medwick 1936

Ted Williams 1941

Micky Mantle 1952

Frank Robinson 1966

Carl Yastrzemski 1967

I'm sure I made a mistake with a couple of the dates but I'll make sure to correct them after checking the net.

Lou Gehrig and Ted Williams are two of my favorite players of all time. I'll tell you about Lou Gehrig another time. Why? Because Ted Williams is the greatest Red Sox of all time!

Batting left handed (like me), Ted was a left fielder. That he meant he patrolled Fenway Park's fabled Green Monster...which isn't much really. It's just a high wall merely 310 ft away from home plate that converts home runs to doubles...and singles (if it were in other parks) into doubles! It's on of a kind. You won't find anything like it in the other baseball parks. Ted was not just a great baseball player, he was also a war pilot who made a lot of kills (50 if I'm not mistaken ) while serving in two wars! World War 2 and the Korean War. this meant that he missed seven years in his career at his peak (or when at an age when he was most productive). I read somewhere once that he had the best swing among all baseball players ever and he had the sharpest eye...which probably explains his skill as a pilot and his hitting prowess on the diamond. The most impressive stat about Ted Williams is that he is the last player to ever hit .400 with a .402 average in 1941 (along with 37 home runs and 145 RBI). For those who are not in the know, .400 is a mean feat. Much like averaging 40 points in a season in the NBA (Jordan averaged 32 at his best). Hitting a lot of home runs while doing this is even more impressive! Another thing that I admire about Ted Williams is the recognition that he has received as one of the greatest anglers in the US. In short, he has made a name for himself in three entirely different fields! amazing!

Well have to go on now...I can blab on and on about Ted Williams but I it's time to sleep!

Go Sox!

Jay

Welcome to the Taytay Bulls

You might be wondering why I use the name Taytay Bulls. Well I got that from my barkada Oliver Briola or "Obeng" who is a basketball nut like me. The Chicago Bulls were just beginning to build their dynasty in 1992 and one of their popular players then was BJ Armstrong (excellent shooter from the outside). I'm not a Chicago fan (I always root for the underdogs) but Obeng got around to calling me "BJ Araullo from the Taytay Bulls!". Taytay is my hometown in the province of Rizal, Philippines.

I really wanted to name this site the Manila Red Sox Nation because I'm a huge fan of the Boston Red Sox(though I haven't set foot on Fenway Park yet!) since 1986 and Roger "the rocket" Clemens but the website won't accept it...must be a yankee fan hehehe

Anyways, welcome to my blog and I hope people can get around to reading it. I hope that I won't bore people too much and I hope to meet others who might have the same interests as I.

Jay