Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 10 Comments »
These are the sorts of things you think about when it’s early July, and you’re watching a dead team that has BOTH Luis Hernandez and Tony Pena in the same lineup. Where’s Tug Hulett?
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 7 Comments »
While getting ready to watch a little Zack Greinke, here is one more quick thought on Dennis Eckersley and Mariano Rivera …
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 20 Comments »
Somehow, my Facebook page* has now become a playground for a baseball argument: Who was better as reliever, Mariano Rivera or Dennis Eckersley? I thought we could take the argument here …
*And the deal is still on … buy 09/09/09, become a friend!)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 53 Comments »
More Kansas City Royals. I keep meaning to write about some other teams … but the Royals just keep doing amazing things. Amazing things.
Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 27 Comments »
As you know, I love those absurd moments of baseball. Fortunately, I live in Kansas City, where the moments are always within arm-length reach.
Posted: June 30th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 51 Comments »
This is, on the surface, all about the Kansas City Royals. But really, I think, it’s not. It’s about unexpected consequences, the vision thing and why two plus two does not always equal four.
Posted: June 29th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball, Other Sports, Pop Culture | 41 Comments »
Home. Whew. Well, that was an interesting vacation … I won’t bore you with too many details. I did come up with a couple of new words …
Posted: June 27th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 38 Comments »
Heading home after our week-long vacation in the stratosphere … and you know it’s really hard to hold your break. We still have a lot of driving to do — a LOT of driving. Have some Kansas City Royals thoughts (collapse, yikes) and a few other thoughts as well, will try to get to them when I get back home. In the meantime, a quick thought on Ron Gardenhire.
Posted: June 19th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 129 Comments »
I like Harold Reynolds. I mean, I don’t really know the guy, but he seems to be a likable guy on television. And friends who do know him tell me he’s a very likable guy. And one of my favorite baseball images is that of Harold Reynolds in the moments after Bo Jackson threw Reynolds out at home plate from the base of the left-field wall … the scene (as relayed to me by then-Royals-beat-writer Dick Kaegel, who was there) was of Reynolds sitting by a television, watching the play, rewinding the tape, watching the play again, rewinding the tape again, watching the play again, over and over in a futile effort to figure out what the heck happened. There’s something about that scene that speaks to me, something about mere mortals trying to come to grips with the mysteries of the universe. Yes, I like Harold Reynolds.
Posted: June 18th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball, Other Sports, Pop Culture | 117 Comments »
OK, here’s the next installment of “True to your school” — 25 more schools. I have no idea how much longer I will have the strength.
Remember: For each college you have to pick the best (1) Basketball player; (2) Football player; (3) Baseball player and (4) WIldcard, which could be any sport, anything semi-involving sport or if it’s good enough a cool alumni who has nothing at all to do with sports.
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