OBSERVATIONS: What team is baseball’s laughingstock?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave with a full day of watching a Cincinnati Reds-St. Louis Cardinals doubleheader, watching Ohio State-Toledo and listening to the University of Dayton-Kentucky State football game. The Flyers are going after their 500th game without being shutout. There might be a shutout, but it will be Ky-State […]
OBSERVATIONS: New rules baseball can live with
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and for once I’m here to praise commissioner Rob Manfraud instead of burying him under some pitcher’s mound in Elmira. —Asking me if I like the new rules to be implemented in MLB next season is like asking a whiskey drinker if he’d like to meet […]
OBSERVATIONS: Something for Champ Summers to chew on
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, laboring over an Observations column on Labor Day. Work, work, work. —HE WAS BEECHED: It was the late 1970s and the Reds had an outfielder name Champ Summers. He always played with a large chaw of Beech-Nut chewing tobacco filling his cheek. One game Summers hit […]
OBSERVATIONS: Where do you stand on Yankees collapse?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, thrilled that I was put on a cane to use for short walks as my fractured hip is healing fast five weeks after surgery. Thank you, Dr. Charlotte Orr. —For those who despise the Evil Empire, the American League’s Richie Rich, what happened to those New […]
OBSERVATIONS: ‘The Spaceman’ is still earning his bananas
By HAL McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSEVATIONS from back in The Man Cave, where I can now get in and out of my La-Z-Boy without calling for a crane. —It was former major league pitcher/author Jim Bouton who wrote in his infamous book, Ball Four, “You spend a good deal of your time gripping a baseball and […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some days Reds are worth watching
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, where my oh-so-caring wifemate, Nadine, is limiting me to one cigar a day. So naturally I rummage through my stash to find the longest, fattest one I can find. And many thanks to my own Three Kings — Jose Rijo, Nick Whitt and Larry Hansgen — […]
OBSERVATIONS: I’m back. . .with a trial run
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Sun Room, a trial run from here because the La-Z-Boy in The Man Cave puts too much of an ouchy pinch on the surgically repaired hip. Bear with me, dear readers. I plan to return to monitoring our Class AAA Cincinnati Reds on Monday, so this is keyboard […]
OBSERVATIONS: A final ‘farewell’ to a dear friend
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, anxiously awaiting resumption of the season by the Cincinnati Reds, mostly to see how the team and the front office handles the rest of the year. It certainly can’t be too much fun when the goals are to avoid 100 losses and to scramble out of […]
OBSERVATIONS: More new ‘rules’ coming to MLB next year
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while catching up on ‘Longmire’ episodes during the All-Star break. It seems there are more murders in Wyoming’s Absaroka County than on a Saturday night in Chicago. . .and Longmire solves ‘em all. —If you watched St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Giovanny Gallegos pitch against the […]