Baseball Nerds

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending my first game at the new Nationals Stadium (complete with PS3 pavilion) with one of my sorority sisters. It was a nice day and a nice victory.

As I've mentioned before though, I've always been more of a basketball fan than a baseball fan. In general, I think it's more likely for an engineering minded person to be more of a baseball fan. I think part of this has to do with keeping scorecards while watching a game. There's something about stats and numbers that gets the engineering mind interested. And in baseball there are lots of statistics you can keep track of.

Anyway, this all made me think of one of my friends, a fellow alumna of Carnegie Mellon, who really enjoys writing about baseball. Her name is Deanna and she is the blogger behind Marinerds, Dragonbutts, and Hokkaidorks (formerly called Seattle Marinerds). She has moved from Philly, to Pittsburgh (for CMU), to Seattle, and now Japan, being loyal to baseball throughout her life. She has done a lot of cool things, including getting to go on the field and meet Bobby Valentine. Honestly, I don't know where I'm going with this post. Basically, I'm fangirling about a fangirl of baseball. I mean come on. Larry Rocca calls her "the girl who knows too much about baseball". Too cool.