Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has a concern: he wants to make things more difficult for the wild card teams in baseball’s post-season. “While the first round of the playoffs is likely to stay a best-of-five series, wild-card teams might find a tougher road next season, commissioner Bud Selig said Friday.” Wild card teams have beenContinue reading “On Fixing the Wild Card”
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On a School Shooting
Until about four years ago I lived in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. It’s a beautiful area, though sometimes the smell of cow manure can be overpowering. But if you could put the stench aside lazy afternoon drives through the back roads of Lancaster county were amazing. Amish farmhouses have a distinct look to them, their fieldsContinue reading “On a School Shooting”
On Baseball's Losing Ways
Wrote Garrison Keillor recently: It dawns on me that my Minnesota Twins do better if I’m not there cheering for them. I leave town and they have a big winning streak. I go to a game, and our pitcher gets in trouble right away, our clutch hitters hit into double plays with the bases loaded.Continue reading “On Baseball's Losing Ways”
More Things That Happened on My Birthday
After using Wikipedia to research the doings on my birthday, today I’ve decided to use Today in Baseball History to do the same. 🙂 Events 1947 – The Dodgers win 4-2 over the Pirates as Jackie Robinson swipes home for the first of 19 times in his career. 1955 – Washington rookie infielder Harmon KillebrewContinue reading “More Things That Happened on My Birthday”
On Sammy Sosa
In some way, this is sad: Sammy Sosa has rejected two contracts with the Washington Nationals. Neither was a guaranteed contract, perhaps minor league work, not more than a million dollars for a single season. As I said, in some ways, sad. Sosa likely feels that his past performance should inform a future contract, butContinue reading “On Sammy Sosa”
On the Cubs and the Nationals
While I’ve been a fan of the Chicago Cubs for a very long time, I’ve never actually seen the Cubs. At least, not in person. Last year my sister suggested that, perhaps, I could go and catch a Nationals-Cubs game in Washington. Of course, she suggested that the day after the Cubs had a three-gameContinue reading “On the Cubs and the Nationals”
On the 2005 World Series
A caveat–I admit to ho-hum feelings about this World Series. The two teams in contention are rivals of the Cubs, so I had a choice between rooting for one enemy or the other. Those were some incredible games. Game four was edge-of-your-seat, especially when the ninth inning came down the way it did. I don’tContinue reading “On the 2005 World Series”
More on the White Sox
The Chicago White Sox have won their first pennant since 1959. I wrote two months ago, “I’ve been a Cubs fan for so long that thoughts of the other Chicago baseball team never cross my mind. The Cubs. The Bears. They provoke passion. The White Sox? Well, they had really cool uniforms in the mid-80s.”Continue reading “More on the White Sox”
On the White Sox
Today on Slate someone wrote about the pain of being a Chicago White Sox fan. Or not. I didn’t realize the White Sox had fans. 😉 The White Sox are doing fantastically well this year. Best record in the American League. Comfortably sitting atop the American League Central. Barring unforeseen calamities, the White Sox willContinue reading “On the White Sox”
On Moonlight Graham
Field of Dreams, the movie based on W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe came out when I was in high school. I loved the book, and I loved the movie. It’s not my favorite baseball book. It’s not my favorite baseball movie–that would be The Natural. I would place Field of Dreams in the top five,Continue reading “On Moonlight Graham”