Happy New Year

Photo Credit Evan: Dee Gordon was a very exciting player to watch during the 2011 season at Isotopes Park

Happy New year to everyone.  Its around this time I get real excited for baseball,  and lately its all I think about.

What am I thinking about?

First I want all this ownership stuff to be over with.  I would like to hear more about the team than about a Judge in Delaware ruling on one thing or another.  I want to hear that the owner of the Dodgers signed off on a deal to acquire player "X". 

One thing I learned through this whole ordeal is there is a lot of beyond rich people who want to buy the team.  I really didn't think there was that may people who could afford the team, but there is more than I thought.  Competition is good. May the best billionaire win.

Who would I like to see buy the team?  I would hope the best man wins but, I am kinda pulling for Dennis Gilbert.  I guess it's because when I am watching Dodger games on T.V. I always see him behind home plate.  He knows this team, and he is a "Baseball Guy"  He knows the business.

Enough about that.  How about the Isotopes.  We were pretty lucky to see Dee Gordon, Jerry Sands, and Trayvon Robinson play last season.  What can we expect this season?  Mike Sciocias Tragic Illness has a little preview of what we might see come through Albuquerque. 

Who am I excited to see this season.  Nathan Eovaldi, and Allen Webster are the first come to my mind, and they might come through Albuquerque, but I noticed last season that the Dodgers seemed to leave the pitching down in AA, so i don't know if we will see them here this season.

Photo Credit Evan: Tim Federowicz at Petco Park 2011

I would like to see Tim Federowicz some more.  I didn't like the trade I guess because I get kinda attached to players like Tayvon Robinson, but what I did see of Federowicz I liked.  I saw him homer and it wasn't a high deep homer it was a laser line drive homer.  If you blinked you would have missed it.  The other times I saw him hit he seemed to hit the ball solid.  They were also line drive lasers.  I think the more I see of him the more I am going to like him.

I would also like to see Brian Cavasos-Galvez and Greg Wilborn play at Isotopes Park.  They are both from New Mexico and I always root for the local kids to make it.

You can read the whole article called "Checking Into the 2012 Albuquerque Isotopes" at MSTI by clicking here.

Photo Credit Evan: Josh Lindblom at Isotopes Park 2009

Josh Lindblom who played with the Dodgers last season and with the Isotopes in 2009 has started a foundation called The Josh Lindblom Foundation.  The foundations mission is "TO PROMOTE AWARENESS AND RAISE FUNDS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN IN NEED AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS."

Josh is a very nice guy and hope his foundation does well.  You can find out more about The Josh Lindblom Foundation and upcoming events by going to their website at http://www.joshlindblom.com/.

Matt Moore

Photo credit Evan:  Jordan Pacheco at Isotopes Park During Major League weekend 2010

Matt is not a Dodger but a pitcher for the Tampa bay Rays, and he is also from Edgewood New Mexico which is about 20 miles east of Albuquerque. Anyway there will be a banquet, honoring Major League Baseball players Matt Moore (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) and Jordan Pacheco (Colorado Rockies) on Jan. 6th at 7 p.m. at the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Albuquerque.

The event is sponsored by The University of New Mexico Baseball team and the Albuquerque West Side Chamber of Commerce.

You can get more information about the event by clicking here

Well I hope you all had a happy and safe New Year.  Best wishes to everyone for 2012.