Hi all.  On this New Year's Eve, I wasn't going to burden you with yet another list of the players the game has lost in 2016.  Those lists are everywhere.  But a 1962 Met died yesterday after all the lists had been made out, so I thought a mention of him was in order. Chris Cannizzaro ...

Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on the Friday before Christmas or Hanukkah. After a ton of speculation  Edwin Encarnacion got a new job for Christmas. He'll get to move to Cleveland from Toronto. Cleveland was the team that beat his own Blue Jays in the last ALCS and came within a gnat's eyelash of ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball a week before Christmas, 2016. In the song "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," both Warren Zevon (1976) and Linda Ronstadt (1978) sing "Lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' for the Double E."  There's another Double E out there and a lot of teams are waiting on him.  He ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016. Some weeks ago, I wrote a piece in this forum called "A Moment for the Broadcasters," where I did thumbnail sketches of the 8 men nominated for the Ford C. Frick award.  The winner has been announced.  The award will be presented posthumously ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Monday evening, Dec. 5. Last night I found out that Bud Selig and John Schuerholz had been voted into the Hall of Fame.  John Schuerholz I have no issue with.  I can't see why Bud Selig is in and George Steinbrenner isn't. Schuerholz remains President of the Atlanta ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Dec. 1. If nothing else, there won't be a strike this year. I've dealt with the strikes of 1972, 1981, 1990 and the calamity of 1994-95 when the idiots in charge took away the World Series from the fans who invested in that year's regular season. With the ...