I’ve been waiting patiently the past two nights for baseball to return. Royals and Orioles players have been waiting four. This is simply unbaseball-like. Thanks, TV studio execs. Proof once again that baseball is not played on ballfields; it’s played … Continue reading
So let’s remember this one: October 8, 1956. Best pitched game in baseball history. … Continue reading
October. Baseball playoffs, college football. Cripes, could this weekend’s games have been any better? This is why I don’t get any work done in the month of October. Damn. I mean… awesome.
April 3, 1989. This was the day it began. This was the day I began my love love affair with the beautiful but often bothersome world of sports. That evening was the final game of the 1989 NCAA Tournament, the … Continue reading
Baseball was dead to me for exactly one day. Thanks, greatest sport on Earth, for bringing me back in with one of the most thrilling elimination games–won by the home team no less–in a decade. Thanks, too, for keeping the … Continue reading
And now the curtain has officially closed on the career of Derek Jeter, the pride of what we will one day no doubt refer to as the “turn of the century” Yankees, or perhaps turn of the millennium. Derek Jeter … Continue reading
Unbelievable. That’s the word I’ve heard most often in description of Derek Jeter’s heroic game-winning hit in last night’s contest, the Captain’s final game in pinstripes after a 20-year career. Unbelievable? You obviously haven’t been paying attention at all the … Continue reading
After years of seeing clips and snips and still frames, I finally got around to seeing the famous 1964 “T.A.M.I. Show” in its entirety. Filmed in October 1964, the concert come video features nearly every major pop/rock act of the … Continue reading
Dear New York Yankees, Thanks for playing a great game yesterday. I’m afraid it’s a little, well, see title.
On this day 35 years ago Frank Sinatra recorded this song. Listen. Enjoy. Repeat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJQNMqVIug … Continue reading