OBSERVATION: Mason grad plays a hot Louisville Slugger
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, trying to type while fighting a mild case of COVID. So far, six of seven of us who went on vacation together came back with COVID. As Mary Todd Lincoln was once asked, “Other than what happened to your husband, how was the play?” ~What does […]
OBSERVATIONS: When a no-hitter is not a no-hitter
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, tan and exhausted after a week on St. Simons Island, Ga., one of our country’s hidden gems. ~When the Cincinnati Reds held the Pittsburgh Pirates to no hits last week and lost, 1-0, the knee-jerk reaction is, “Who else but the 2022 Reds? They find every […]
OBSERVATIONS: About players giving away cars
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave, live from St. Simons Island, Ga., for a week of doing nothing and the first day I was here the Reds beat Milwaukee, 14-11. Maybe I should stay here. Twist my arm. ~Some stories that need to be told never get told. It was publicized when […]
OBSERVATIONS: So how are the ex-Reds doing?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching an 80 to 1 shot come blazing out of nowhere in the Kentucky Derby to beat my horse (Epicenter) at the wire as I tore up by $20-to-win ticket. And I don’t want to hear some old time horseplayer say, “Well, that’s horse racing.” […]
OBSERVATIONS: So why did the Reds dump Dusty Baker?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering every day if it can get any worse. . .then I watch a Cincinnati Reds game and it gets worse. ~To borrow an ugly phrase from Cincinnati Reds COO Phil Castellini, “Be careful what you wish for.” Except in this context, it involves Dusty Baker […]
OBSERVATIONS: ‘What’s a harried, undermanned manager to do?’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave on a beautiful day when Ernie Banks would say, “It’s a beautiful day, let’s play two.” And the Reds right now would say, “It’s a beautiful day, let’s play none.” ~Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price began the 2018 season 3-and-15. . .and was terminated. Bench coach […]
OBSERVATIONS: Let’s hear it for Robin Roberts
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave prepared for a couple more late nights watching the Cincinnati Reds play in Denver as they hunt for win No. 4 before April expires. ~Any baseball fan who knows a bunt from a punt is familiar with Bobby Thomson’s ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World,’ his walk-off […]
OBSERVATIONS: Wainwright is not fond of GABP
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching the Cincinnati Reds win their first game in exactly two weeks, but didn’t it seem like two months? Wasn’t Atlanta in the distant past? ~Adam Wainwright would like to stand over a dynamite plunger in Great America Ball Park and push hard, then smile […]
OBSERVATIONS: Pham gives the Reds the ol’ flim flam
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering why I lost so much sleep watching the Cincinnati Reds try to win night games on the west coast (or any games)? ~When Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham was 0 for 23 to start the season, I felt sympathy and sorrow for him. When the […]