Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Dec 4, 2009, 4:44 pm
Group A Group E South Africa Netherlands Mexico Denmark Uruguay Japan France Cameroon Group B Group F Argentina Italy Nigeria Paraguay South Korea New Zealand Greece Slovakia Group C Group G...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 30, 2009, 10:36 pm
AL NL MVP Joe Mauer (Twins) Albert Pujols (Cards) Cy Young Zack Greinke (Royals) Tim Lincecum (Giants) Rookie Andrew Bailey (A’s) Chris Coghlan (Marlins) Manager Mike Scioscia (Angels) Jim T...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 27, 2009, 12:48 am
First, props to the Columbus Crew for having the most points overall with 49 in the regular season.  In a typical football league they would have the title. So the playoff title–L.A. Galaxy vs...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 19, 2009, 9:51 pm
The final 32 teams for the 2010 World Cup are set. The teams are: Europe: Holland, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia , Greece, Slovenia, Portugal , France. Asia...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 19, 2009, 6:10 pm
Yesterday was the final day of qualifying for the World Cup.  Unfortunately, it was a bad day for soccer.  France and Ireland were playing the second leg of their 2 game qualifying playoff.  France...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 19, 2009, 6:06 pm
The infamous “Hand of God” goal happened in the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarterfinals between Argentina and England.  Argentina beat England in the game 2-0.  Diego Maradona of Argentina pun...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 14, 2009, 11:46 pm
All 7 of the eligible Rangers have filed as free agents.  The players are: Andruw Jones Omar Vizquel Ivan Rodriguez Hank Blalock Marlon Byrd Eddie Guardado Juaquin Benoit The Rangers are definitely...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 13, 2009, 2:45 am
I didn’t think I was going to write any posts on Survivor, but the episode I watched tonight inspired me in a way.  Survivor is one of the few TV shows I watch.  I love the format of it.  Fir...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 13, 2009, 12:42 am
According to Activision, Call of Duty:  Modern Warfare 2 has broken the sales record for most sales of any entertainment form in a 24 hour period.  It has sold $310 million worth of games, 4.7 milli...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 11, 2009, 5:34 pm
The FIFA World Cup, usually just called the World Cup, originated in 1930.  It is held every 4 years using different countries as host nations.  The next Cup will be held in South Africa in 2010. Q...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 11, 2009, 4:50 pm
In the final qualifying round for CONCACAF for the 2010 World Cup there were 6 teams in the group.  The top 3 teams advanced and were USA, Mexico, and Honduras.  USA’s 2 losses came against M...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 11, 2009, 3:03 am
The Champions League is a UEFA football cup competition for the best European clubs to compete in.  It is “the trophy” to get if you’re playing on a club.  It was established in 19...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 11, 2009, 1:30 am
Baseball season is over so I thought I’d catch up on soccer a little. The 3 major club leagues in Europe are La Liga, the Premier League, and Serie A.  Games are played weekly; Premier League ...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 10, 2009, 8:38 pm
Individual Team Leaders: AVG – Michael Young – .322 HR – Nelson Cruz – 33 RBI – Marlon Byrd – 89 Runs – Ian Kinsler – 101 SB – Elvis Andrus &...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 10, 2009, 8:37 pm
According to MLB.com, attendance for 2009 was 73,418,479 fans, the 5th highest ever.  However, this is a 6.6% decrease from last year (78,264,099). The Texas Rangers had an attendance of 2,156,016, ...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 10, 2009, 8:21 pm
First, I’m talking about non-bundled.  I don’t think you can count how much a game sells if it automatically comes with the system because there’s no telling how many people just wa...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 10, 2009, 7:25 pm
According to Wikepedia, these are the leaders for most consoles sold all-time. I didn’t include hand held systems because they’re such a different item in my opinion.  The ones in bold ar...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 9, 2009, 3:41 am
I just purchased FIFA 10 for the PS3, and I would highly recommend it.  The graphics are incredible and the game play is more realistic than it was in 09.  Baseball and soccer are my 2 favorite spor...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 7, 2009, 1:11 am
The Yankees beat the Phillies in 6 games to get their 27th championship title.  Congratulations to the Yankees and the fans of New York.  Girardi fulfilled his prophecy with the number 27 on his jer...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Nov 3, 2009, 2:10 pm
Lee pitched well enough in Game 5 last night, but nothing dominating like his first start in the Series.  He went 7 and gave up 5, but 3 of those runs were given up in the 8th, and if the Phillies ha...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 28, 2009, 11:35 pm
Wow.  Pitching performance of the postseason thus far.  I got pretty excited about the game 1 matchup between C.C. Sabathia and Cliff Lee.  However, I certainly didn’t expect Lee to go the fu...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 25, 2009, 11:25 pm
The Phillies have a chance to win back to back titles while the Yankees have a chance to win their 27th. The Yankees just beat the Angels in 6 games while the Phillies are coming off a 4 – 1 se...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 21, 2009, 12:58 am
Spassky vs. Fischer, 1972 World Championship Match I’ve been trying to get into chess lately, mostly playing games online at Yahoo.  I randomly went on Wikipedia to look up Bobby Fischer, just to ...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 12, 2009, 9:52 pm
The Colorado Rockies were eliminated from the postseason tonight after losing game 4 of the Division Series against the Phillies 5-4.  It was a great series.  It’s not hard to say that it was ...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 11, 2009, 9:49 pm
Pettitte The Yankees beat the Twins 4-1 tonight, sweeping them in 3 games and and moving on to the Angels. I’m not a huge Yankees fan, but watching Andy Pettitte work tonight was very impressi...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 7, 2009, 5:48 pm
What is the point of predictions? Why pick a team when you have absolutely no influence on whether they win or lose? Why not just sit back and enjoy baseball for what it is instead of worrying about w...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 7, 2009, 12:08 am
Cabrera dives into home as the winning run... What a game! A walk off single to right field by Alexi Casilla in the bottom of the 12th gave the Twins a 6-5 win over the Tigers tonight.  Carlos Gome...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Oct 7, 2009, 12:05 am
AMERICAN East W L GB y-New York Yankees 103 59 x-Boston Red Sox 95 67 8 Tampa Bay Rays 84 78 19 Toronto Blue Jays 75 87 28 Baltimore Orioles 64 98 39 Central y-Minnesota Twins 87 76 Det...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 23, 2009, 6:36 pm
The Angels’ magic number is currently 5.  What does this mean? If the Angels get this number down to 0, they win the division.  Any win by the Angels or loss by the Rangers takes one away from...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 22, 2009, 1:12 am
Yes, my loyalty still lies with baseball, but I wanted to throw this in here due to the magnitude of this event.  Before Sunday, the highest number of page views on my site was 22.  Yesterday it hik...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 18, 2009, 1:18 am
First, a change in the way of who hosts one game playoffs.  Coin flips were the previous way, now it is a tiebreaker of who won the most games against the other team in the regular season.  If someh...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 13, 2009, 6:07 am
If the Rangers end up not making the postseason and we are 20 games or more above .500, I’m going to be pretty disappointed.  I don’t necessarily like pointing this out, but the 2 teams t...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 11, 2009, 3:12 pm
23 games left woo-hoo! As of now, the Rangers are 2 back of the Sox in the Wild Card and 5 behind the Angels in the division.  The Angels and Red Sox have 3 games against each other next week which w...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 8, 2009, 2:45 am
I’m very grateful that I was able to visit my 2nd major league ballpark today, Minute Maid Park in Houston (1st of course was the Ballpark in Arlington).  I had a great time today with a few fr...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 8, 2009, 2:30 am
The Pirates have now clinched 17 straight losing seasons, breaking the record for consecutive losing seasons for all 4 major sports.  Wow, so before you think about complaining about your team suckin...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 8, 2009, 1:28 am
I have to give the National League some credit on one thing –the only thing that separates it from the American League — the pitcher having to bat.  Growing up with the Rangers, it’...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 3, 2009, 7:22 pm
About the Wild Card. Since the AL won the all-star game this year, home field advantage goes to the AL.  From 1995 to 2008, the wild card spot has won 4 out of 14 times  (’97, 2002, 2003, 2004...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 2, 2009, 5:12 am
*Update — Young will be out for at least 2 weeks with a strained hammy.  This is a huge blow to the Rangers’ chances of making it to the postseason.  Omar will take his place at 3rd.  T...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 1, 2009, 1:58 am
My 10th post, woo-hoo! I’ve also had a whopping 19 hits so far! Anyways, this post is sort of the page between chapters if you will. Nearly all my posts so far have been about news (old or new)...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Sep 1, 2009, 12:59 am
1939 Grays When I was in high school and playing summer league ball our coach chose to use Grays uniforms.  I didn’t think much of it until I brought the jersey home and my dad saw it and told...
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Dylan Walker posted an article on No Place Like Home... - Aug 31, 2009, 11:26 pm
It’s funny looking at some of the older pictures of ballparks where there were no fences.  People would line the outskirts of the outfield and be their own sort of fence.  Also seeing the feat...
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