A devout Astros fan, his interest in baseball goes back to the mid-70's, when he found out who Nolan Ryan was. Paul is a graduate and avid supporter of Virginia Tech, and lives in Roanoke, Virginia. He is a member of three Diamond Mind replay leagues. He received his Master's Degree in Sociology from UCLA and has written extensively on topics such as Scoresheet strategy and predicting future major league performance. A native Texan, Rod has followed the American League since the Senators became the Texas Rangers in 1972.
Rod is a meteorologist for a Dallas consulting firm.
In his spare time, he wrote the freeware application that college quiz teams use to keep tournament statistics. Tim Hudson and Adam Eaton pitched him to a 5x5 title on the last day of the 2000 season. Last year, Patrick joined the Baseball HQ team, writing about Rotisserie strategy and rules. Now an avid 4x4 player for roughly 15 years, Doug is always in the money. He won his keeper league in dramatic fashion in 1999 upon the final at bat on the final day and lost with equal panache in 2000, finishing second by less than a whisker of Junior Griffey's goatee.