Stadium Visit (Wayback Machine Edition): Cardines Field, Newport Gulls (NECBL)
My first experience with New England’s collegiate baseball culture was in Newport, Rhode Island. Sat back off the water, blocks away from cultural landmarks like the Cliffwalk, the National Tennis Hall of Fame, and all the yacht racing any person…
Move Complete. Welcome to the New Site
We’re now the Kansas City Ashburn & Yawkeys. Of course, in a few years, we’ll move to Oakland, and before you know it, we’re not doing any page views, and I’m throwing chintzy tarps up over half the site. I’ve…
New Stadium Visit: Tallaght Stadium (Dublin, IE), Home of Defending League of Ireland Champions – Shamrock Rovers FC
Stadium: Tallaght StadiumLocation: Dublin, IrelandSport: SoccerOccupant: Shamrock Rovers Football Club Failte from South Dublin and Tallaght Stadium, home of the Shamrock Rovers. On this particular evening, Rovers were hosting Cork City in their Airtricty League of Ireland regular season home…
New Stadium Visit: Croke Park (Dublin, IE) Home of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Stadium: Croke Park Location: Dublin, IrelandSport: Gaelic Athletic AssociationOccupant: GAA, Dublin GAAHome of the All-Ireland Finals Slainte and very welcome greetings from Dublin friends and fellow collectors. My partner and Amanda and I are currently in the middle of our…
Some Exciting Updates
There’s been a lot going on here at the corner of Ashburn Alley & Yawkey Way. Collections wise, we’ve been relatively quiet. I’ve had a couple returns come in for the Phillies Frankenset that I haven’t posted, including Ramon Aviles,…
Game Day Report: Indy Fuel vs Worcester Railers HC
ECHL Indy Fuel vs Worcester Railers HC DCU Center Worcester has been an AHL city in the past, but the DCU Center has been host to the ECHL Worcester Railers HC since 2017 and I think the coast league…
Providence Bruins Begin to Improve Fan Experience
One of my biggest complaints with the Providence Bruins over the last two seasons have been their almost impossibly bad fan experience. My chief complaint has been that the team seems to do the barest minimum for the fans that…
Happy Hockey Season
I’m going to keep this brief, because my laptop is beginning to suffer catastrophic failures. Fortunately, in a few days I will be building myself a new computer (which I’ll be using to stream some sports games at http://www.twitch.tv/revdonkbonkers. However,…
2019/20 Hockey Season Rink Wish List
It has been a few days since I’ve posted anything. Several things have been taking up time; we lost my partner’s grand father a few weeks ago, and yesterday was his memorial. He was a great guy and the joke…
Hello Friends from TTM Cast!
Last night I chopped it up on the phone with the one and only Jeff Baker, host of TTM Cast, a fantastic podcast covering the TTM/auto/card collecting hobby. We talked for about a half hour, but covered quite a bit…
Baseball cards and nonsense.
