OBSERVATIONS: Manfraud drops Rose letter in File 13
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, forced to finally put on the Man Cave heater and hike up the electric bill because the heater gobbles kilowatts like a hungry man at the Thanksgiving table. —NOT ROSEY FOR ROSE: As anticipated, Pete Rose’s letter pleading for re-instatement probably has been dropped into File […]
OBSERVATlONS: Time to forgive and not forget Pete Rose
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and pitchers and catchers report to spring training two days after Super Bowl LVII (And what in the name of Pete Rozelle is LVII?). —Pete Rose made another request for forgiveness in a letter recently to baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. It smacks of groveling at the […]
OBSERVATIONS: A total ‘Brown-Out’ in Miami
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave trying to convince my schnoodle, Paige, that she can’t play ball in the snow. And the Cleveland Browns can’t play in 80 degrees. —BROWN OUT: If you watched, you saw that the Cleveland Browns showed up in Miami for no apparent reason. They would have better […]
OBSERVATIONS: Dusty almost faded into obscurity
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, starting a diet with the goal of losing 15 pounds. I know from previous diets, losing weight is a piece of cake, but you can’t eat it. —THE RIGHT STUFF: There was one good thing that came out of the Houston Astros illegal sign-stealing mess. One […]
OBSERVATIONS: Baker: ‘Some people think I’m a great manager’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Ma Cave, counting the days until spring training, but anxiously awaiting the start of the University of Dayton basketball season. —‘SOME PEOPLE:’ So Dusty Baker finally has his World Series championship. And it seemed nine-tenths of the free world was pulling for him. Dusty, though, knows he has […]
OBSERVATIONS: Why the Reds fired Dusty Baker
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and while I’m a big fan of Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber, I’m a bigger fan of Houston manager Dusty Baker. He has taken Houston from the Disastros to the Astros and I’m pulling for them to win the World Series. —THE DUST-UP: This not new news and […]
OBSERVATIONS: John McVay dies at 91, got his start at UD
By HAL McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after the Cleveland Browns showed the Cincinnati Bengals all tricks and gave them no treats on Halloween Night. UD LEGACY: John McVay is known as an executive for the San Francisco 49ers, a guy who helped put together five Super Bowl winners in a 14-year span. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Expect the unexpected in the World Series
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave on Sunday afternoon with no World Series game, no Browns game and no Bengals game. What’s a guy to do. Yeah, Nadine, I hear ya. Time to cover the patio furniture. —PHIL ‘ER UP: Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, you never know what you are […]
OBSERVATIONS: Arroyo is a Hall of Fame poster boy
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wonder how so many days off will affect the Astros and Phillies and if they visited Ace Hardware to buy some Rustoleum for their pitchers’ arms. —TRUE ‘FAMER: When any Hall of Fame is established, the prototype for an inductee should be Bronson Arroyo. He is […]