Vin Scully was the voice for six generations of baseball fans, including mine. Baseball greats have come and gone and more will do the same. Though we will contemplate their greatness, there are a few that resonate with us for one reason or another. Growing up in the tiny town of Mariposa, California, we had the Saturday Major League Baseball
Read moreWins are hard to get nowadays. Pitchers are pulled from games earlier and earlier. According to Bleacher Report, there were 734 complete games in 1982. We are on pace this year for…four
Read moreStill enough in the tank to make another road trip to the postseason? The Houston Astros should be looking at the possibility that time is running out on the most successful run in team history. George Springer, Marwin Gonzales, Carlos Correa, and Gerritt Cole are all gone. Jose Altuve, Yuli Gurriel, Alex Bregman and Michael Brantley remain. Will the new
Read moreOr, how an over-protective manager robbed a player of a chance at immortality. Of course Dodger manager Dave Roberts should have pulled Clayton Kershaw from the game after 80 pitches and a perfect game after seven innings. After all…um…nope. What I mean to say is, it’s better for Kershaw to be denied the opp…ur…nuh uh. Let’s try…cooler heads will prevail
Read moreDavid Ortiz only player elected to the 2023 Hall of Fame despite positive PED test. What stinks about writing this column for me is that I like David Ortiz. I mean, really, he’s funny, outgoing, great with fans, great with teammates, great with opponents and a great hitter. He was, by all accounts, a credit to the game of baseball.
Read more“You’re getting too big of a share,” say the owners who let themselves be talked into enormous contracts for mediocrity. “Why don’t you pay your best players?” asks the union. Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association have done virtually nothing in the way of labor talks since the end of the World Series and as such
Read moreBob Moffitt: (Posey was) rookie of the Year, MVP, 7-time All Star in 10 full years in the field, four Silver Sluggers, one Gold Glove,
Steve Harmon: Not arguing at all that he wasn’t great, that he accumulated all that platinum. But one thing he didn’t accumulate were the numbers. I’m sorry, but 1,500 hits and 153 home runs – even for a catcher.
Yes, they Braves are hot, but I don’t know if Atlanta is the second coming of the Minnesota Twins.
Read moreIt would seem to be unreasonable to question or criticize the Los Angeles Dodgers management decisions considering they just won a World Series a year ago. But we specialize in the unreasonable. Eddie Rosario has carried the Atlanta Braves offense through the National League Championship Series. Yet, the Los Angeles Dodgers continue to pitch to him. It’s one of several
Read moreThe Rays were equally situated and they got smoked.
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