If any of you are science fans as well as baseball fans, my SO (who reads a lot of physics for fun) loved a book called The Physics of Baseball.

OHHH, I'm both, I'll get my hands on that one for sure.

Two more baseball reads!

When I was at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. last year- you might want to know this one; the biggest number of books category re classifying - you guessed it- sports first, baseball under sports. They have nearly an entire floor.

Here's my latest baseball story. This morning the Red Sox played their Season Opener in Tokyo. Dice-K was making the start in front of the home town crowd - lots of color and excitement.Start time was 6am on the East Coast.

Our family woke up early, made a great breakfast, turned on the tv only to find out that Direct TV blew it - NO SIGNAL. UHHH? Its like waking up on Christmas morning and finding no toys under the tree. What the heck! Finally got a signal in the 8th inning but hte kids had long left for school so they saw nothing.

Lots of reports of other Direct TV users not getting a signal too.

But the Red Sox won after being down 4-2. Okajima (another Japanese pitcher) really came through big time and rookie Brandon Moss hit a homer to tie the game. Very cool.

bennnie, me too! Stuck in the great DirectTV screw up. Apparently only those of us who still have standard def were affected, the high def signal was fine. I was so angry, and my husband was making fun of me..."it's only a game..." yeah, but...

I got to see game #2, which wasn't anywhere near as exciting, and the Sox lost :(

DirectTV issued a statement where they apologized for the inconvenience adding "in particular, we apologize to Red Sox fans". Well the Oakland area papers sure let them have it for that.

china cat - I'm still trying to get Direct TV to give us a rebate or something. I've heard that some fans got free Showtime for a month.