Earth to Fox Sports: Does anyone really want to spend their afternoons watching a Yankees/Red Sox game? Especially when neither team is in first place in their division? Especially when one of those teams is pretty fucking woeful? I’d much rather watch the Cubs/Cardinals game. Not just because it’s the Cubs, but because there areContinue reading “On Why I Hate Fox Sports”
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On Hank Steinbrenner’s Rantings
Dear Hank Steinbrenner, You’ve ranted recently, sir, about how the National League needs to “join the modern age.” I realize you’re angry. You lost one of your starting pitchers to a base-running injury. You’re seeing your post-season hopes go down the drain. “The pitcher has enough work to do,” you said. Translation: pitchers shouldn’t beContinue reading “On Hank Steinbrenner’s Rantings”
On Baseball Fun
Won at work today — tickets to tonight’s Orioles/Yankees game at Camden Yards. This makes my second Orioles game of the year. Similar seats to last time, along the right field foul line. It’s going to be Teh Awesome! 🙂 Of course, I know I’ll be watching the out-of-town scoreboard, to keep up on theContinue reading “On Baseball Fun”
On the Cubs and Mark Prior
It’s been a rainy and miserable day in Baltimore, but the sun was shining down in Chicago, and I settled down to watch the Cubs take on the Pirates on WGN this afternoon. Maybe it’s my Cubs bias showing, but I really like the broadcast team of Len Kasper and Bob Brenly. They’re knowledgable. TheyContinue reading “On the Cubs and Mark Prior”
On Interleague Madness
Interleague play in Major League Baseball began this weekend for this season, with all but two teams — the Cubs and the Pirates — playing against teams in the other league. (The reason why the Cubs and Pirates are playing is that there are two more National League teams than American League teams.) Am IContinue reading “On Interleague Madness”
On More Baseball Excitement
At work random drawings are sometimes held for baseball tickets. Sometimes the Orioles. Sometimes the nearby minor league team, the Aberdeen Ironbirds (though, I should note, they don’t begin play until mid-June). Last year I won tickets to the Ironbirds twice, but never the O’s. Last night, I scored Orioles tickets. My second baseball gameContinue reading “On More Baseball Excitement”
On Meeting Cubs Nation
There is a Cubs Nation. Last night I did something I’d never, ever done before — I saw the Chicago Cubs live and in person. They came to Washington, DC, and the new stadium for the Washington Nationals — Nationals Park — for a three game stand. I bought a ticket, in the Right FieldContinue reading “On Meeting Cubs Nation”
On An Expotition
Hooray for you Hooray for me Hooray Hooray The Pooh will soon Be free! I’m off, on an Expotition. I’m just a little black rain cloud Hovering under the honey tree I’m just a little black rain cloud Pay no attention to little me. I’m looking for the North Pole. I will be back. AfterContinue reading “On An Expotition”
On Being a Cubs Fan
I have never seen the Chicago Cubs in person. Oh, I’ve watched them many times on television. But to sit in the stands at a stadium somewhere and watch the Northside Nine take the field? Never. The Cubs are coming to Washington at the end of the month, for a three game series against theContinue reading “On Being a Cubs Fan”
On The Quiet of the World
Did anything happen over the weekend? It doesn’t seem like it. I haven’t seen anything interesting in the news. Except, of course, that Duke lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Which, really, in the long run, is insignificant. I was disappointed. No Cubs on WGN over the weekend. White Sox, yes. ButContinue reading “On The Quiet of the World”