OK folks, we’re back for a second week. Here’s yoru chance to win Opening Day tickets.

Please answer this question on the official BlueClaws Facebook page. Any answers left here will not be accepted.

Question: What BlueClaw started the first game in team history (we’re looking for the pitcher who started the first game in team history)?

Hint: He has pitched in the big leagues for several years.

Update: Congrats to Justin, who knew the correct answer to this question: Taylor Buchholz was the first starting pitcher in BlueClaws history.

We’ll have more of these contests as we move forward towards Opening Day, which is just three weeks from today!

Win BlueClaws Opening Day tickets in our Blog trivia contest. We’ll get underway at noon right here, though all answers must be submitted on the official BlueClaws Facebook page, just like last week.

Welcome to Round One of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament. Over the next three weeks, approximately $4 billion will be lost due to workplace inefficiency, as a direct result of these basketball games. So let’s get the ball rolling.

A couple of former BlueClaws, Tuffy Gosewisch and Ronald “Bear” Hill are in MLB.com’s Minors Moniker Madness, 64 players fighting it out for top status on the strength, not of their 3-point shooting or rebounding, but rather their names.

Gosewisch (2007) is a 10-seed and Hill (2006-07) an 11-seed. But considering the support for former BlueClaws announcer Ben Wagner in a poll regarding his possible promotion to the Los Angeles Dodgers, I think we can get Gosewisch and Hill to at least the Sweet Sixteen.

Vote early. Vote often. Vote here.

Personally, if Arquimedes Euclides Caminero doesn’t win there should be an investigation.

Also, have to give the committee some credit for a first round matchup between Jose Jose and Justin Justice. Also, nice job finding a place for Burt Reynolds, John Madden, Ernie Banks and Stephen King. And props for the parents who named their son Jetsy and another couple with son Waskal.

Enjoy, and remember to use the Boss Button when watching hoops in the workplace.

Question: Who is the only person to, as a Lakewood BlueClaw, pitch a no-hitter and lose the game?

As we promised earlier today, we’re starting a BlueClaws trivia contest with the winner of each round receiving two free tickets to BlueClaws Opening Day on April 9th.  

Rules: This post will be linked on the official BlueClaws Facebook page. Simply go there, to the link, and be the first to correctly answer the question. That’s it. Good luck!

Update: The correct answer is indeed Gavin Floyd. We have our winner, Chris, over on the Facebook page. He will receive two tickets to Opening Day. Congrats! We’ll have more of these contests soon.

Check in here at noon. We’re playing BlueClaws trivia, as we noted in yesterday’s BlueClaws e-newsletter.

The first to answer correctly, we’ll give that person two free tickets to Opening Day. It’s something we’ll be doing with some frequency as we move along towards April 9th.

We want you to be able to follow your favorite former BlueClaws players, all year long, and we’ve partnered up with another site to help. BlueClaws Blog is giving you a chance to get a free three-month subscription, a $24.95 value, to PhillyBaseballNews.com, and we’re opening up our blog to help. You can write a blog post for us, and we’ll give you the subscription in return.

• Why are you a Phillies fan?
• Who are your favorite former BlueClaws players?
• How did you become a BlueClaws fan?
• What are your thoughts on the Phillies heading into 2009?
• Anything Phillies or BlueClaws related is fair game.

Write up a post for us, and email it to ggiombarrese@blueclaws.com. We’ll post it to BlueClaws Blog and you’ll get a three-month subscription to PhillyBaseballNews.com. Simple as that.

Here’s your chance to win free BlueClaws tickets and throw out a first pitch on the FirstEnergy Park field before a 2009 BlueClaws game!

We’re instituting a new wallpaper contest through BlueClaws.com. At this link, to a gallery in our fan photos section on the left side of this page, you’ll see a series of pictures. Just take those pictures, or any of your personal photos, and mold them into a BlueClaws desktop wallpaper of your creation.

Then email your wallpaper (in JPEG format) to Josh Ellis, at jellis@blueclaws.com. We’ll judge them, display them, and we’ll bring the winner out to a game this year. Best of luck!