World Series

Picking the Cubs to win the World Series was foolish business for generations of fans, but that didn't stop one teen from thinking outside the box. A high school yearbook from 1993 features one senior predicting the Cubs will win the World Series in 2016 (as if people weren't already in enough of a frenzy)...

BYAA will be the host team.

World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner threw five scoreless innings of relief, and Michael Morse drove in the game-winning run with a bloop single as the San Francisco Giants beat the Royals, 3-2, in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series in Kansas City on Wednesday night.

On Tuesday, Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns softball team will head to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to take part in the 2014 Women's College World Series.

Tigers headed to Lafayette....no....not those Tigers

Shane Victorino had two hits and four runs batted in, and the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in Boston on Wednesday night to win their third World Series in 10 years.

Sgt. Christine Permenter of Missouri's Fort Leonard Wood military base stunned Busch Stadium when she sang "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch of last night's World Series matchup.

Marco Scutaro's line drive single scored Ryan Theriot with the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers, 4-3, on Sunday night in Detroit to complete a four-game sweep of the 2012 World Series.

Lafayette Little League represented well in Pennsylvania, shutting out the Southeast champions 2-0 to advance to the next round in the Little League World Series.

There is another team in Acadiana that is in a youth baseball world series.  The Ville Platte, 11-12 yr old Dixie Youth All Star Team are the Louisiana State Champions and are representing Louisiana in the Dixie Youth World Series in North Carolina...

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio (More info) 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island (More info)

I was syncing my iPhone and got to thinking about how we used to listen to recorded music.  I remember when boys would sneak their transistor radios into school so they could listen to daytime World Series Baseball games.  Later my Dad installed an 8-Track player for me under the front seat of the family car.  (I still feel that "ca-chunk" when I hear Tequila Sunrise today!)  Then came t