Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, June 24. In these days of low baseball attendance and the shortened attention span of the modern American mind, the temptation is to tune out if your team is trailing late in the action or to leave the game if ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Tuesday, June 11.  I haven't written as much during 2019 as I have in years past.  There have been several reasons, one being the major step backward taken by minor league baseball making its web site much more difficult to navigate.  Above all ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, May 24.  With injuries in the Bronx and mind-numbing futility in Queens, it's necessary to look elsewhere to see where anything new and interesting has appeared on the baseball landscape.  It has, in Atlanta and Minnesota.  The term "Life of Riley" started ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, May 8.  His name isn't Scherzer, DeGrom, Syndergaard or any of the pitchers my nephew is likely to have on his fantasy team.  JAWS doesn't even pronounce his name right.  For the second time in his career, Mike Fiers (pronounced Fires) has thrown ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, May 1.  Until a player makes the move from AA to AAA, there isn't much real difference.  The towns are small, so are the parks.  The motels are usually dismal and the pay is lousy unless you were an early round ...

Hi all.   It's been a while since I could share my tilted, perhaps off kilter opinions about the great game with you.  I've kept my ears open while my hands were occupied trying to earn a few bucks. And I've heard some things I feel are of interest.   The most ...

The joke is about a man who was ordering breakfast at the diner.  "Give me runny scrambled eggs, burnt bacon, cold toast and cold coffee."  His waitress said "We couldn't do that."  To which the customer said "That's what you did yesterday!"  Here's the reverse.  Something happened ...

Hi all.  With a week to go before official Opening Day,  I'm going to do something completely different.  I'm going to share the words of a far better wordsmith than I, with no edits on my part.  Not long ago I wrote my opinion of the changes that are coming to ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, March 14.  Traditionally baseball has been the most resistant to change of any sport out there.  Both college and pro football routinely changes their rules more often than Taylor Swift changes boyfriends. Now, MLB and the union have agreed on changes, some of which ...

Hi all. Yesterday was another day of great unhappiness in the baseball world. News of deaths and illness among baseball greats have dotted columns like this one. This time it's the Mets' Tom Seaver, #41, "The Franchise" and above all Tom Terrific. In the '60s and '70s you didn't have to ask who Tom Terrific ...