Do you want to spend an hour and a half listening to Michael Schur and me talk baseball? Well, if you change your mind, here you go. Here it’s on iTunes. I think this is how you get it on Stitcher. You can download it here directly. Or if you just want to listen to…
Month: March 2015
Al Rosen
In the end, we are all prisoners of circumstance … and it was circumstance that kept Al Rosen from being in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rosen, who died a couple of days ago, was a truly great player. Circumstances kept many from knowing it. Rosen’s father left the family when Al was a baby….
Your American League Champion …
… Kansas City Royals! A SportsWorld story telling a few old Royals stories, a few new ones and finally making the comparison that should have been made: Ned Yost is the Ron Swanson of baseball.
Coincidences
I do realize that the stuff we call amazing coincidences are often, in fact, not all that unlikely. Still, coincidences FEEL amazing. Thursday around lunch time, I was getting some Mongolian barbecue at a restaurant in the Charlotte airport when I felt a hand tap my shoulder. I turned around and two customers behind me…
Purchase prozac from Pittsburgh
My friend Jon Hock has a relatively new documentary out, Of Miracles and Men, which looks at what we call the “Miracle on Ice” — the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey victory — through the eyes of the Soviet Union. It is a fantastic piece of work, I think, filled with all sorts of wonderful insights…
Top 5 Hitters and Pitchers
Bob Dutton, the Mariners beat writer for the Tacoma paper, knows how to send me down rabbit holes. On Tuesday, I went to Seattle’s spring training spot in Peoria to report something I’m writing about the amazing Felix Hernandez and, well, a couple of things happened. The first thing that happened was that I met…
Boxing, Minnie and 100 Greatest
So, you might have heard: Boxing is coming back to NBC Prime Time this Saturday for the first time in like a bajillion years. I’ve had a long and complicated relationship with boxing because of my father, who is: 1. The most peaceful person I’ve ever known. 2. The biggest boxing fan I’ve ever known. Boxing…