I have a quite a few pieces in my notebook — doodles, if you will — that are odd and bizarre and have nothing to do with anything. I usually type them up when bored on planes or scratch them out on a legal pad while waiting for a game to start. I never had [...]
I like Billy Beane. I don’t just like him because of his star turn in Moneyball or because I think he’s pretty smart or because he’s a quotable guy, and there can never be enough quotable guys in my world. I like Billy Beane for the very reason that many people in baseball have a [...]
A random Las Vegas thought (but aren’t they all): Every time I walk through Caesars Palace — admittedly, this is not too often — I find myself amazed that there’s a huge indoor mall with the ceiling painted like a sky so that it looks and feels like you’re walking outdoors. I know that there [...]
So, this was fun … I had breakfast at spring training with Bill Fischer, Royals Senior Pitching Advisor (when you get to a certain age, you move up from “coach” to “Senior Advisor“) and, I believe, the longest-running full-time baseball man in the game. Fish has been in the game since 1948, when he [...]
Every family, I guess, has its own particular holiday. Some get WAY too serious about Halloween — you will see rather unshapely people dressed up like Catwoman and the Johnny Depp pirate and their stately homes decorated with bloody hatchets — and some buy enough fireworks on the Fourth of July to invade Granada. Some [...]
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