R.A. Dickey is the best thing to happen to Fox since Ryan Seacrest
As much as I hate to admit it, Tony La Russa’s decision not to start R.A. Dickey in Tuesday’s All-Star Game turned out to be a good one. Good for Fox. Good for Baseball. I might have cursed La Russa...
View ArticleBlackout … and I’m not talking about the good kind.
Top of the 2nd, the Mets broadcast abruptly went to commercial. The first thing I thought, what did Ron Darling touch? The second thing I thought, Thank God! Chris Young totally does not have his stuff...
View ArticleBaseball Post September 11th
You can say a lot about Bud Selig over his tenure. You can complain about what he did wrong. You can complain about what he did right. Nonetheless, not one of us would have wanted to trade places with...
View ArticleBaseball Gets It Right Again – Reflecting the Mood of the Nation in the...
Commissioner Bud Selig got it right again, when he requested all Major League clubs in the U.S. to fly their flags at half-staff on Friday. This motion was in support of government response as the...
View ArticleA Quiet Giant of the Game Is Gone
A widely respected true man of baseball has passed away. Lee MacPhail was a primary representative of the second generation of MacPhails, a family that has served the game since the 1930s and still...
View ArticleMeet Tom Cheek – The 2013 Ford Frick Award Winner
Tom Cheek called the first 4,306 regular-season and 41 postseason games in Toronto Blue Jays history. He helped ignite a love affair between a Canadian city and America’s National Pastime. It was that...
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