Canon Fodder – Sports Blog

Sorry for the lack of a posting yesterday.  I had a big meeting that we’ll use as the subject matter for today’s post.  Enjoy.

 

February 1945 – The “Big Three” meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss the shape of a post-Nazi world.  This meeting – known as the Yalta Conference – would alter the fates of hundreds of millions of people and directly lead to the Cold War.

February 2007 – The “Big Three” meet at Buffalo Wild Wings to discuss the shape of their upcoming fantasy baseball league for 2007.  Fourteen teams will be forced to endure the rules imposed by this counsel of three for 25 weeks of the baseball season.

Yalta – The resort location on the Black Sea was chosen because Stalin refused to travel far for the conference.

Buffalo Wild Wings – A resort location for alcoholics with a penchant for chicken wings was chosen because it was close and served both alcohol and chicken wings. (more…)

I was planning on saving this piece until Opening Day or at least the official start of spring training, but I couldn’t fight the urge any longer.  Here is a compilation of some of my favorite quotes about baseball.

Spring
That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.  ~Bill Veeck

Don’t tell me about the world.  Not today.  It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.  ~Pete Hamill

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.  I’ll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.  ~Rogers Hornsby (more…)