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 […]
OBSERVATIONS: Dusty Baker takes too many bad raps
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, killing time (or wasting it) as we await the start of the World Series Friday night. Once again, they are all night games that will last beyond most people’s bed-time, including mine. —DUST ‘EM OFF: Never has a manager carried a bigger bad rap than Dusty […]
OBSERVATIONS: A third-place team is atop the world
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a fun-filled weekend of sports, except for us always downtrodden Cleveland Browns fanss. —PHIL ‘ER UP: Let me get this right. ^A team that fired its manager, Joe Girardi, 51 games into the season, is going to the World Series. ^A team that won only […]
OBSERVATIONS: This was no ‘mistake on the lake’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, still debating. . .Yankees or Astros? Yankees manager Aaron Boone saved my career by imploring me not to quit in 2003 when I lost most of my eye-sight. But I am not a Yankee Doodle Dandy. Astros manager Dusty Baker is one of my all-time favorites, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Baseball at its finest right now
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATION from The Man Cave, bleary-eyed after staying up until 2 a.m. to watch the San Diego Padres send the Los Angeles Dodgers back north up Interstate-5 to put away their uniforms for the rest of the season. R.I.P. to a team that won 111 games, while the Padres won 89. […]