Bleacher Report - Articles by Joel Estrin

Whats with Jose Canseco?

Joel Estrin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:51:46 -0400

the guy has gone to the well, one more time, how much is enough?

Granted baseball hasn't made him a rich man,hmmm

he hasn't got enough press,hmmm,

What a working person today would say about

his needfor more material wealth or security for

a pretty good retirement. Is it so important that

every once in a while he cashed in on another ballplayer

that the fans never get a chance to watch a game without

congress for the 7th inning stretch.

Give it a rest lets play baseball summer is long and with

everything else going on in the world lets go to the ballpark

and soak up the wealth that baseball gives each fan that

waits through winter just to hear 'playball' not courts in

session.

MLB: Play Ball

Joel Estrin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:10:48 -0400

It's almost here, when for a moment my world has harmony and purpose.

The baseball season is so near you can almost hear the “crack of the bat.” Opening day although now happening all over the world. Japan, for example, is a new spring in the desolation of winter at least where I live in the northwest.

At one time the Mariners had a gold mine, to name a few Griffey, Arod, Randy Johnson I could make an all star team!

What will this year bring as much as of what it won't, do you think anyone will pick up Barry/ I kind of doubt it. This time of year every team can lay claim to "this is our year." It would be great to see the Cubs break through, but then again Woods and Pryor were to be the saviors of the north side.

One of the great things about a new year in baseball is all the new storiesto unfold. What will Yankee fans think of Arod after hid dealings over the winter? Is Prince Fielder has great a hitter as he was last year? Each fan has his or her own reasons to stay up to late for a night game, but if our team wins, then who needs sleep?!

Play ball America, save a seat for me.

Can You Hear The Music?

Joel Estrin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:16:45 -0400

With so much going on in the world of sports today, it easy to forget why we love it so much and why we will be fans forever.

When we were kids life was simple, we played all day and when our parents called us in for the night a "five more minutes o.k! We love sport because it reminds us what if means to be alive to care about something with innocence and beauty.

For me my music that I play is like the baseball I used to play on the streets of Chicago, life was perfect I felt good just to be in that moment of perfect harmony. Today so much is made of money made and how many endorsements can I get, just to name a few. With drugs and cheating no longer creeping into our sports its easy to forget that the games are for us the people that grew playing the sport of our choice not because of money but because it was right!

I will never forget when my brothers and I would play baseball we all had our favorite player and while we played our hearts out with our friends we were baseball we were the game. So don't forget the next time you hear that’s sports are ruined by money and such when it was time to pick up teams, all we did was flip a bat and choose up sides! That’s sports at it finest and most wonderful moment.