Dream Weaver

My weekly MLB commentary for the Deseret News.

Jered Weaver

TSD

Jesse Bristow and Shane Richins of Team San Diego.

That stands for Team San Diego, kids.

TSD is a summer baseball program based near San Diego, California that gives young men from youth to collegiate ages the chance to play some competitive ball outside of the school season.

My son Jesse, fresh off his third school in three years (3.5 GPA, hard-working left-handed pitcher--you tell me why this kid can't stick somewhere) is on the roster of the collegiate squad for the first time this season. Summer ball has been good to him--much more so than his last two college seasons--as he went 8-1 with a 1.56 ERA for the Bisbee Ironmen last summer.

He started on the hill in the team's second game last weekend and pitched four innings, giving up one run on four hits and striking out five. Not a bad first outing. TSD, unfortunately, went on to lose the game 2-1 in 13 innings.

Jesse's good friend and high school teammate, Shane Richins is also a member of the team--his third summer in San Diego. Shane is an excellent middle infielder and lead-off hitter, with a collegiate career batting average of .350. The "table-setter" was 9-20 in TSD's first tournament of the season giving him a whopping .450 BA to start.

TSD is back in action this weekend as the season will go into full swing. Jesse is slated to get the ball in the second game of the double header on Saturday and Shane will no doubt be manning one side of the second bag. There may be live streaming available if the connection is good, so if you love to watch baseball like yours truly, then please look in.

Here is the home page for the TSD Collegiate team.

Due to my vested interest in the team, I will have updates here on my blog regularly... so check in everyday! You don't want to miss anything.

Mike Trout: MLB Feature for Deseret News online

This article is about a week old, but I thought I'd post it here since many of you may not troll the Deseret News sports pages outside of your local prep sports.

I enjoy doing these MLB articles. This one is my second. The first was about a week previous to this one and focused on the high spending and disappointing results from both the Los Angeles teams so far this spring.

There will be another one up this Friday on the subject of... ohp! You'll have to wait 'n see.

Until then:  Mike Trout

Btw... the name may have changed, but you will all still be "Nutshell Nation" to me

Hello Nutshell Nation (feels good, doesn't it?),

As promised...

Instead of running you guys through dozens of separate links to recent articles, I'll condense it down for those of you who are interested. This is the link to my page on the great Rant Sports site.

The thing I love about Rant, is that it's commentary. It gives me, and all writers who contribute there, the chance to state their piece on the topic of the day. Where else can you go to love or hate, or agree or disagree on your personal favorite sports organizations? And you don't have to be put through all the ridiculous comments that seem to accompany articles on other sites. I won't mention any... YAHOO! --sorry... had to sneeze.

This may be a little MLB heavy for some of you... especially on the Dodgers, but me and my staff of no one will be working diligently to expand our coverage. So stay tuned, and thanks for the hugs.

Kenny Bristow Rant Sports Author's Page

Kenny

To over saturate or not to over saturate?

Greetings from nowhere land sports fans!

I have been most busy. My Wasatch High School sports beat has finally come to an end. Well just about--All-State honors in soccer, softball and baseball are soon to be announced.

I have also, as some may know, been writing for a couple of blogs. One is Rant Sports. I cover the Los Angeles Dodgers as my beat team, but like to chime in on many matters on MLB and other sports.

Of course, there is the Deseret News online. They seem to enjoy having me in their loop. Now that Wasatch will be shutting its doors for the summer, we will see how much. Although they have expressed interest in my willingness to cover the Orem Owlz--the Pioneer League Rookie affiliate for the L.A. Angels.

There are a couple of others I've had a "drink" with, but see no long term relationship developing.

My point is, I apologize for not posting here in a while. I will try to improve on that. But, that does make me wonder about over saturating the market with my sports writing. Hahaha... that is a good one, right?

I recently received a bit of advice from someone in the same industry and his direction was to post every single thing I write--regardless of where it is originally published--here on my blog. Oh... and to lose the silly "In A Nutshell" name. Use my name was the advice. Search engine stuff, don't you know.

I've changed the look of my blog, along with just giving it a nice boring "Kenny Bristow" title, and will be filling it up soon with some archived material from other publications from the past couple of months. Not a lot, mind you, most of it will be dated, so what's the point of posting old news?

To recap, these are items you will be able to find here on a regular basis from now on:
Wasatch High School Sports--both from the Wave and Deseret news online.  Orem Owlz and Salt Lake Bees from the Deseret News online and possibly from the printed newspaper. Los Angeles Dodgers regular beat, along with other MLB, NFL and NCAA commentary. And of course, I will always use this forum to post any other thoughts I may have on... well, on stuff.

Not to frighten you away, I must add, there will also be a letter coming asking for contributions. Covering local sports has become a little costly due to inconsistencies in my regular work hours and just basic cut-backs. That will all be outlined in the letter.

Thanks again, fans of "In a Nut..."--oops! Kenny Bristow. I hope to keep you as friends and followers.

Talk to you later!

Kenny