The stage was set: two deserving teams from deserving cities, meeting at this most worthy park, denied of World Series glory for 29 years. If Tuesday’s game was any indication, it’ll be 30. Game One never really found the drama … Continue reading
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, you’ve done it to me again. The Irish, the last 25 years in marquee match-ups like Saturday’s instant classic with Florida State, have begun to look a little like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. … Continue reading
Travis Ishikawa’s walk-off home run last night capped off one of the greatest two weeks of baseball games I have ever seen. The thunderous applause at AT&T Park, though, may have drowned out the sobs of Fox studio executives, left with … Continue reading
Fairytales begin “once upon a time,” mysteries begin with dark and stormy nights. And a ninth-inning rally begins with a lead-off walk. Classic.
See: last night. Case closed. … Continue reading
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