What’s happening in Miami in the bottom of the twelfth might remind you the teapot was left to boil this morning or you missed a birthday. A cold sweat or bad dream can do the job, but instead let the more pleasant score details be the cartoon slap. The jerseys you’ll observe on vacation out…
Dusty Diamond’s All-Star Softball was one of the more overlooked baseball titles of the 8-bit era. This is an often tossed about adjective for anything that isn’t Mario or Zelda, but I can vouch for its overlookability, since I discovered it about five years ago and now it’s probably one of my three favorite baseball…
So-called artistic production hits the skillet to sizzle but is in fact routine and unmusical When new students were mentioned at the stickball game I asked for their area code and predicted they’d be awful I was writing poetry about the moon and men were calling those poems patriotic Go home and clean your drain…
It was the top of the second when Chick Hafey blooped a middle-in pitch into shallow center, but it was the AL that actually sent one across the plate a few minutes later. Wally Berger and Dick Bartell rounded out the middle of the lineup but it just wasn’t enough: for despite exciting the thousands…
“Every pitch matters; we don’t need loss to remind us. We need grace while the sea resets its shores.”
Venus Williams is the same age as Albert Pujols. Contrary to what you may have heard, he is definitely 39 years old, the same age as the elder Williams sister, who lost to 15-year-old Coco Gauff in the Wimbledon first round. When you’re playing tennis at age 39, there are no expectations, just awe. Williams…
thinking like a rhizome peeling into autonomous cells autonomous zones nearly inappropriate puns to get the band back together first the band has to break up assemble some supergroup a clump of resistant bacteria spoof suit per theme trips for the dog and pony show academic competition farce representing the institution expect a lot of…
The Las Cruces Vaqueros suspended baseball activity in 2015. A few months ago, a notice appeared scheduling tryouts. Anticipate the future. Think about it. Unaffiliated with majors or minors, join the Pecos League in the high or low desert. Champion Bakersfield Train Robbers fans nearly moony for bandanna’ed mascot share the same logo with two…
You cannot argue balls and strikes, and the rest comes down to instant replay. So when it comes to borderline calls, the only ones we can (and should) question is their decision to post. So let’s rank the hashtags used in its promotion: #OneGameSuspension – This one’s completely accurate. It is about a one game…
In 2001 he was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing; the newspapers didn’t go into details, probably because they didn’t have any details. It’s the sort of crime where someone decides they don’t like where you are. The original complaint came, they said, when someone saw him trying to deposit an empty envelope into an ATM…
I sometimes like to see the flag flapping at the top of a construction crane. The loneliness of the flap, the anthem’s punch line, consoles me like the moon or a good cloud. When a vulnerable person sings the anthem, the crowd sweeps me up in the swell. I can resist strong performances; a wavering…
The teacher handed me an envelope, and my heart started racing. I never got envelopes. I never got called out. I was very much a background character of my second grade class, putting my books in my bag and thinking about Nintendo. I wondered what it could be. Had I won a prize? Had they…
I don’t care much for championships. It’s very easy to just come out and say this when the sports team that I like is bad, but I’ve always been on the record with this opinion, even when they were in the World Series. Even if I didn’t, it shouldn’t matter, because I think changing your…
Reunion answers questions better left alone. What we look like together, on a team again. If the wind has teeth it’s not to bite with but rather scratch from hip down to ankle, to strip one pinstripe away and chill your flank. What ever changed except the date on the calendar. Not you. Still, the…
Look, I’ve got no idea what’s going on at MLB HQ. The Mishandling of Everything Committee is hard at work, turning Rob Manfred mid-sleep night whispers into bylaws. The mascot spaying and neutering division has fallen way behind. People are accidentally ingesting baseball weightlessness serum and floating into ceiling fans. Who knows. All we have…
It has long been told Cincinnati had the first professional baseball team, back in the days when baseball was two words. The name “Reds” was short for “Red Stockings,” referring to the color of the socks. It is very likely that team no longer exists in Cincinnati, given there is already a team in the…
