Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today.  Yesterday was a bad one for the Yankees, although they won their spring training game 2-0 over the Braves.  They were_ relatively lucky with the injury bug up to now.  Yesterday they should have had an ambulance on site. First, closer  Andrew Miller took a liner off ...

The Mets did nobody a service yesterday by not announcing what was  the matter with their scheduled opening day starter, Matt Harvey.  By not telling, they left the door open for all manner of speculation, including one TV report that turned out to be false which I believed, to my unhappineess.    The actual trouble  could ...

Hi all.  Hope you  enjoyed your Easter weekend. Here's how I see baseball today.   The majors returned to Mexico this weekend for two blowouts, 11-1 and 21-6. as far as I recall each team won one of the demolitions and the fans seemed to enjoy the games, one-sided though they were. This is the time when ...

The voice was  distinctive when you had to have a distinctive voice to get a job broadcasting baseball.   His playing  success was modest but his sense of humor was up there with the best.  He wrote one of the earliest books about the lighter side of baseball, called "Baseball is a Funny Game."  These thoughts flashed ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today. As disappointingly dull  as yesterday's 4-1 win by the Rays  over the Cuban national team was, the worst part for my money was their blind broadcaster Enrique Oliu did not make the trip to Havana.  Seriously?  140 people at least made the trip, why not two more-particularly when one ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today.  I hope to catch the game from Cuba between the Tampa Bay rays and the Cuban national team.  The Orioles were the last American team to go to Cuba where they won a 4-2 11-inning contest over the Cuban nationals in 1999.  That game was broadcast by ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today.  Two weeks from today, it's all real.  The first pitch will be thrown in Pittsburgh and off we'll go with another season of baseball.  The Pirates haven't had a good spring up to now.  Until Friday their hitting was the main issue.  It was clear they were ...

Hi all. Here's how I see baseball today.  Here's a story so well done I couldn't have improved it in any way.  Ms. Jana Paley has written a brilliant sketch of Buck O'Neil  for her Facebook page and I reprint it here. "What kind of determination and talent did it take for a young black man to ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today. With exhibition games already happening, former Pirate slugger Pedro Alvarez probably had resigned himself to checking out the independent leagues if he wanted to play ball in 2016.  But, like the cavalry in an old Lone Ranger episode, the Orioles came riding down the canyon and rescued ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today. BULLETIN! BULLETIN!___  Before we begin our regular column, the latest word just received is shocking. Chase Utley won't face any_ suspension for the brutal slide that broke Ruben Tejada's leg.  This is an astounding case of MLB caving on a suspension on appeal.  There has been a rule ...