She's Ready to Play Baseball:

a blog of women's baseball. Yes, baseball.

Lairderg

Lairderg
Location
Turnersville, New Jersey, United States
Birthday
June 26
Bio
Yes, that's me, ringing up a little mojo for my Fightin' Phils during the 2008 World Series. I grew up, in 1950s and 60s suburbia, with the heart of a frontierswoman. I grew up a Catholic with the heart of a seeker of the Divine Feminine. I grew up a girl and a woman, when being either "just wasn't good enough," with the heart of a warrior priestess of a warrior goddess. My favorite television shows are (from the mid 90s) Profiler, (from the early 21st Century) Witchblade, and (now) Saving Grace, so you know where my mind still is. I was a journalist before big advertising bullies started owning the media and quit (after a long, loud battle) when I saw what they were doing. I was the oldest, and the most eccentric, of seven children in an Irish American family. I married, divorced, and now have a significant other. I am a "budding" herbalist, a mother of four avians (My poor Keenan died recently.), a guerilla gardener, an adjunct professor of pre-composition college writing, a poet, a fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, a feature writer, and now a player and a blogger of women's baseball.

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AUGUST 25, 2008 11:54AM

Team USA thumps hitless India, 27-0

 

Women's World Cup 3 tournament officials applied what is generally called “the mercy rule,” stopping the USA-India game in four innings after Team USA added 11 runs to its 16-0 score in the top of the fourth. India’s batters remained hitless in the frames and made a total of… Read full post »

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AUGUST 23, 2008 3:50PM

Bad feeling

While I am waiting for the 2008 Women's Baseball National Team to play its first game in Japan, I ponder Senator Barack Obama's pick of Senator Joe Biden from Delaware. The bad feeling in the title does not come from Biden, whom I've recognized as "one of the good guys" in politics… Read full post »

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AUGUST 22, 2008 5:07PM

Make all the women’s team uniforms sexier? Shut up!

 

I’m sick of the media’s sexual objectification of female Olympic athletes—and the athletic, as well as societal, double standard. The IOC needs to be more concerned about keeping the games fair then they are about the lack of appeal of the United States Softball Team’s… Read full post »

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AUGUST 14, 2008 1:40PM

The 52-year-old rookie

Recently, I had Philadelphia Phillies catcher Chris Coste sign my copy of his book, The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made It to the Big Leagues After 11 Years in the Minors. I bought the book for two reasons: I like Coste's enthusiasm for the game, and I had hoped he… Read full post »

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AUGUST 13, 2008 3:42PM

Women playing baseball? Yes!

In this blog, I plan to write about women's baseball. Yes, WOMEN'S baseball.

Here's some facts to start us off:

1) Team USA Women's Baseball exists, and even though it is not a part of the current Olympics, it has won two World Cups in international women's baseball competitions conducted… Read full post »

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