Some Early-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and it’s only two days until Happy New Year. Yep, the new year doesn’t start on January 1, it starts on Opening Day. —NO RESPECT: Rodney Dangerfield does not play for the Cincinnati Reds, but it looks as if he should. No respect. MLB’s web-site listed […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, no longer counting the days until Opening Day, but counting the hours and soon it will be minutes. —THE OPPOSITES: Does spring training numbers and statistics really mean anything? For one thing, teams only play about 30 exhibition games and players don’t play entire nine innings. […]
Miami Proves It Belongs
By Hal McCoy For all those who insisted that Miami does not belong in the NCAA tournament: Do you prefer Scotch tape, electrician’s tape or duct tape to cover your mouth? The much-maligned RedHawks were forced to participate in a play-in game at UD Arena Wednesday as 7 1/2-point underdogs despite their 31-1 record. Southern […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and when it was 78 degrees last week I considered traipsing into the backyard to toss the ol’ horsehide around. Then I remembered I’m 85 and the only thing I’d toss is my cookies. —WHY NOT BOTH?: During a spring training interview with baseball writer Gordon […]
How Baseball Has Run My Life
By Hal McCoy Most of this happened between 65 and 75 years ago, before there was a McDonald’s in every neighborhood, when television screens were black—and-white and the size of the glass door on a dryer. And I rode around in my dad’s Henry J, then his Packard, then his Mercury, then his Edsel — […]
OBSERVATIONS: NIL, Transfer Portal A Mess
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, the last for 10 days while Nadine and I get pampered on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Well, somebody has to do it. —NIL (NOT IN LINE): While MLB is in dire need of a salary cap, what does college football and basketball need? It […]
McCoy: Where’s Baseball Going?
By Hal McCoy This is the time of year when optimism in Arizona and Florida fills the air like the inside of a hot air balloon. On the first day of spring training during their first meeting with the writers, all 30 major league managers prop their feet on top of their desks and say […]
Some Sunday OBSERVATIONS
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave thinking about being a great grandfather several times over. People ask me if that makes me feel old and I say, “No, being a great grandfather doesn’t make me feel old. Knowing that my son is a grandfather. . .that makes me feel old.” —PUSHY PEDRO: […]
Some mid-week Observations…
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and as I sit in front of my laptop listening to Do Wah Diddy Diddy by Manfred Mann, it sounds like something baseball commissioner Rob Manfred would say at a rules meeting. —‘WE’RE NUMBER FOUR’: Jim Bowden was a general manager with the Cincinnati Reds during […]