First blog!

Welcome to my new blogging website.  My name is Nicole Nocera and I am a huge sports fanatic.  People in my family call me the "sports nerd."  Why, you may ask?  Because when I am asked a question of an event that happened in a sport, I will answer it without even thinking.  I maybe young, but I can surprise you if you ask me a question about any sport.  I'm always up for a challenge.

Once one sports season ends, another sports season starts.  Take baseball for example, the season is coming to an end in the next few weeks.  As baseball is finishing its season, football has started and basketball is coming up soon.  Hockey, well that's another story, but we'll talk about hockey later.

This is what my blogs will consist of: the world of SPORTS!  I'm just a girl from a small town in New Jersey, who can't get enough of sports.  I once played catcher with a separated shoulder, felt the pain but wouldn't tell my coaches.  I would make my friend who was a teammate, pop the shoulder back in and run back behind the plate.

Someone once asked me who my favorite athlete of all-time was.  Without any hesitation I said, "George Brett."  The person was shocked because they knew I am a big Yankees fan.  George Brett is famous for many things he did in baseball, but one incident stands out over everything, "The Pine Tar Game."  See, apparently Brett had too much pine tar on his wood bat which caused him to have a better grip/feel on the bat.  Subsequently, Brett was called out and the game was over because his team was down at the time of the incident.  The Royals, the team Brett played for, appealed the out and won the appeal.  The game had to be restarted and the Royals ended up winning the game.

The thing people don't know about me is that the term "sports nerd" fits me perfectly.  I can spend hours in front of a television or computer watching videos of games played 60 years ago and not be bored.  I am such a "sports nerd" that I will sit in front of the television, watch a game, record it on my DVR and make stats on the game and critique each player,  manager and umpire.  If he were still alive, Billy Martin and I would probably be best friends.  We don't like to lose at anything and we will fight for things that we know are right.

Well that's it for now, next week I will be starting my blog where I will breakdown the baseball season and give some insight as to who I think deserves to be in the playoffs.  But before that, here are some pictures of the infamous "Pine Tar Incident." The pictures came from: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
 Until next time!