I don’t want to sound like the guy in the vodka commercial, but whatever happened to taking a big risk in sports? Maybe nothing’s happened. Maybe it’s always been this way. I’m always dubious of anyone (including the grumpy old man in me) griping about how everything was different, how in the old days everyone…
Month: October 2011
Play. Win. Game.
I don’t want to sound like the guy in the vodka commercial, but whatever happened to taking a big risk in sports? Maybe nothing’s happened. Maybe it’s always been this way. I’m always dubious of anyone (including the grumpy old man in me) griping about how everything was different, how in the old days everyone…
The Cardinals Will Win The World Series
Rejected Game StoryWednesday, August 24ST. LOUIS — Well, this one was easy. Every Los Angeles regular got a hit in a 13-hit attack, and Juan Rivera drove in three as the Dodgers beat the Cardinals 9-4 Wednesday to complete a three game sweep. It was the Dodgers first three-game sweep in St. Louis in 18…
The Cardinals Will Win The World Series
Rejected Game Story Wednesday, August 24 ST. LOUIS — Well, this one was easy. Every Los Angeles regular got a hit in a 13-hit attack, and Juan Rivera drove in three as the Dodgers beat the Cardinals 9-4 Wednesday to complete a three game sweep. It was the Dodgers first three-game sweep in St. Louis…
Game Six
The 10-year-old in me loves comebacks. Maybe that’s true of the 10-year-old in all of us, I don’t know, but for as far back as I can remember I have loved two kinds of teams more than any other. The first, of course, were the hometown teams, which for me were Cleveland teams, the Indians…
Game Six
The 10-year-old in me loves comebacks. Maybe that’s true of the 10-year-old in all of us, I don’t know, but for as far back as I can remember I have loved two kinds of teams more than any other. The first, of course, were the hometown teams, which for me were Cleveland teams, the Indians…
Bullpen phones
So, an admission: I love bullpen phones. Love them. I absolutely love the idea that there’s an old-fashioned, land-line telephone in pretty much every major league baseball dugout across America and another one in pretty much every major league bullpen, and this is how managers and pitching coaches and bullpen coaches communicate in 2011. The…
Generic diovan canadian
So, an admission: I love bullpen phones. Love them. I absolutely love the idea that there’s an old-fashioned, land-line telephone in pretty much every major league baseball dugout across America and another one in pretty much every major league bullpen, and this is how managers and pitching coaches and bullpen coaches communicate in 2011. The…
Baseball on FOX
I was writing a quarterback factory post that I hope to have up in a little while, but as these things tend to go I went off on this long discourse about Tim McCarver and baseball announcers that sort of overwhelmed the whole thing. So I pulled that and use it here.* * *Little things…
Baseball on FOX
I was writing a quarterback factory post that I hope to have up in a little while, but as these things tend to go I went off on this long discourse about Tim McCarver and baseball announcers that sort of overwhelmed the whole thing. So I pulled that and use it here. * * *…