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With the RBI and Houston Baseball dinners coming up, I am reminded (as if I could forget) that spring training is almost upon us. Every season brings something new, and that will also be the case on Larrydierker.com.
The Baseball Library will be back in place of “You Don’t Say” (which will continue next winter). The Library will start on opening day. Like last summer, I will have a new trivia game based upon each day’s show with the winners getting sports memorabilia from Sports Collectibles of Houston.
In place of the blog, I will have an “Ask Larry!” icon that you can click on to ask me a question. I will try to answer any questions that seem to be on a lot of minds and also any that are of particular interest to me. My guess is that I will answer a couple each week. I will post the question along with the name of whomever asks it along with my answer each week.
Finally, there will be an offbeat feature (my favorite kind). It will bear the name of “Bring Back.” The idea came to mind when I was thinking about Wrigley Field recently. Here’s the deal. When I first started broadcasting Astros games, the press box at Wrigley had only one bathroom (unisex). It was down at the end, where the writers sat. As a broadcaster, I didn’t want to get the urge because the writers would invariably beat me to the door. Several times, I literally bolted from the booth to get in ahead of them. Inside that bathroom was a great, ongoing piece of graffiti. It started at the top of one wall and had grown to two long columns before the press box was relocated to the top of the stadium. The list started with Bring Back Hobie Landrith. Under Landrith, someone else wrote Smokey Joe Wood and it grew from there. I would guess there were several hundred names on the wall when it was removed. And I think we can beat that on this site. All you have to do is post the name of the player of your choice and your own name and we’ll start our own list.
As always, you can purchase items at the Surf Shop. And I will update my calendar so you can find me if you want to have a book or a ball or something else signed.
I’m looking forward to another epic struggle this summer and hope you will spend some of your baseball hours with me here on this site. As I used to say, when I was in the booth, thanks for listening. |
