Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this very late Saturdday night, Oct. 21. When major league teams gathered in Florida and Arizona at the end of February, it didn't seem possible that the Yankees or Astros would meet in a 7-game series with the winner to face the Dodgers, but that will be the matchup ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, Oct. 16. When Dr. Charles Richter invented the Richter scale to measure earthquakes, there were two things he wasn't counting on.  He never imagined some of his colleagues would write and record a song about the Richter Scale which you can still hear on youtube. (He wasn't ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, Oct. 13. For a dozen years there was a radio show called "Can You Top This," where listeners would send in jokes, a few of which would be read on the air while 3 top comedians tried to tell a funnier joke on the same subject.  ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, Oct. 9. While the Yanks faced the Indians on a Sunday night, their motivation was that hook from a bad song in a worse movie from the 1970's, "Saturday Night Fever.".  "Stayin' Alive" was what it was all about in the Bronx, and Masahiro Tanaka, of ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, Oct. 8. After the horror on Friday night, when the Yankees inexcusably blew an 8--3 lead in a critical game, today's game 3 seems more like a postmortem than anything else.  The  Yankees, perhaps in a subconscious gesture to end their pain are going with Masahiro ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, October 5. The D-Backs' Archie Bradley forgot which comic strip he was a part of for just a moment last night.  Instead of hanging with Veronica and Betty, Archie stepped into a Superman comic and launched a 2-run triple faster than a speeding bullet and leading ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, Oct. 1. With the playoff picture now set, this would be a totally meaningless Sunday.  The playoff teams would try to make sure nobody gets hurt and the also-rans would play out the string.  But one of those also-rans has something to play for on this ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, Sept. 30. In Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Dr. Henry Jekyl makes the terrible mistake of drinking a potion that turned him into Mr. Edward Hyde, a monstrous creature.  At first he could change characters at will, but before so very long ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, sept. 29. In a different era, the Dodgers and Cleveland would have cemented their plans in early September to meet in a World Series that would start next week.  Then came divisional play, the wild card and now the second wild card that keeps teams and ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, Sept. 24. I discount all home run records set during the steroid era.  That being said, Giancarlo Stanton of the Marlins has passed Hack Wilson and now has 57 home runs, which I see as the legitimate National League home run record.  He also owns a team record ...