People win the lottery every day. Something like 1,000 people a year are struck by lightning. Remember when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series? Things to keep in mind as we approach this Election Day. Anything can happen. … Continue reading
My sources tell me that McDonald’s this week has added new items to its breakfast bakery menu, its first additions in nearly a decade. Blueberry muffin, apple fritter, and cinnamon roll. Wow. Took ’em 10 years to come up with … Continue reading
I’m not sure whether you heard it here first but you definitely heard it here on October 7. And last night the Los Angeles Dodgers completed the L.A. championship double, a Lakers-Dodgers combo not seen since, well, the last time the Dodgers won … Continue reading
That play. Good God, that play. Saturday night (actually early Sunday morning), bottom of the ninth inning, Game Four of the World Series. What was that? In a word? It was amazing. I made my son watch it 15 times when … Continue reading
Weird with no baseball last night, right? I kinda liked the no-days-off schedule from the LCS that all-games-played-in-a-single-ballpark permitted. I wish MLB had continued it for the World Series. And, of course, I hope they never have to actually do … Continue reading
On this day in 1928, one Edward Charles Ford was born in New York City. You know him better as Whitey, and he passed away two weeks ago just shy of his 92nd birthday. (Read here for more.) When I … Continue reading
Coronavirus cheated us out of more than 100 games of regular season action for each team this MLB season. Postseason? I do not feel cheated. Two seven-game series that end with–I think–the best teams in baseball going to the World … Continue reading
Among the most famous persons ever to spend time in my hometown of Binghamton, New York, was one Edward Charles Ford, who spent the summer of 1949 hurling for the Binghamton Triplets baseball club. The Triplets were the Single-A farm … Continue reading
This is not how I expected the MLB Playoffs to go. I’m pretty sure the wrong two teams are winning, no? To say nothing of the fact that they’re doing it so quickly… MLB needs to sell more ads, guys! … Continue reading
Now that’s how I expected the NBA Finals to go… none of that Miami-wins-a-game-somehow silliness. (Gotta put one more game on TV, right, L.A.?) For better or worse, yesterday, I also witnessed the expected result when my local professional football team … Continue reading