OBSERVATIONS: Up close and personal at Wright State
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching Ohio State beat Illinois despite playing the final three minutes in total panic. Ain’t college basketball grand? —In all my decade of covering sports, whenever I covered a basketball game I always sat high above the floor or at a press table near center […]
OBSERVATIONS: When a $60 million baseball contract was ‘absurd’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, awaiting the start of the USFL and the XFL. Really? Well, something has to take baseball’s place this spring. —When was a $60 million baseball contract exorbitant? Well, former Miami Herald sports columnist Edwin Pope said this in 1998: “Baseball has taken leave of its senses. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Another ‘problem’ surfaces for MLB
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, awaiting delivery of a new chair from Ashley Furniture that was due earlier this week. But we were told to, uh, “Expect delivery in late March. . .maybe.” Apparently they ran out of thumb tacks. —As if baseball doesn’t have enough problems with the lockout, absurd […]
OBSERVATIONS: Fifteen minutes they’ll never get back
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and, like a lot of ‘former’ fans, I’m missing baseball less and less. Out of sight, out of care. —If anybody with stars in their eyes who believes a baseball contract is imminent, well, close your eyes and count to 900. By the time you go […]
OBSERVATIONS: Why MLB is like Dollar General and Dollar Tree
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering why I am not suffering Super Bowl Withdrawal but I am suffering Baseball Spring Training Withdrawal. —If Dollar General and Dollar Tree operated their businesses like MLB, they’d be known as Nickle General and Dime Tree. And that’s what MLB continues to do to frustrated […]
OBSERVATIONS: On the ‘DH’ and Who Dey think the Bengals have an offensive line?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave…. —Baseball’s ruination continues down a destructive basepath. After 48 years of resistance, National League owners caved. They approved the use of the designated hitter, the player who carries a glove for no apparent reason. It probably was inevitable. With unbalanced leagues, 15 teams in each league, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Can Collinsworth be impartial? No
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, watching a crew tear up my front yard with a back hoe to fix a darkened street light. Couldn’t they just replace the bulb? —When you snap on your Smart TV Sunday to watch Super Bowl Roman Numerals, there will be a nasal-toned voice dripping orange […]
OBSERVATIONS: The Rams (Cleveland, LA, St. Louis, LA). . .always on the move
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wishing the Super Bowl would get here so I won’t have to listen to the ESPN ‘experts’ ineloquently jabber about everything but what color jock straps Aaron Donald and Von Miller will wear. —Are you ready for your head to spin unevenly like a $3 top? […]
OBSERVATIONS: The day McNamara went berserk
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave thinking, once again, about mortality as I heard about the passing of long-time Louisville Courier Journal columnist Billy Reed. We are losing too many, too fast. —Baseball has concocted some really putrid decisions over the years, especially lately under the stumble along commisionership of Rob Manfred. […]