OBSERVATIONS: Seaver felt sorry for today’s starting pitchers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and all I want for Christmas is an end to the baseball lockout. But it won’t happen because both the owners and the players have been naughty this winter. —Tom Seaver was always one of my all-time favorites. During Hall of Fame weekends in Cooperstown, he […]
OBSERVATIONS: Las Vegas thinks ‘highly’ of the Reds (sort of)
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, so bored this week that I watched the entire UD-Virginia Tech replay on ESPN2, even though I covered the game. And how boring am I? I loved it. —Las Vegas must not be paying close attention to baseball due to the lockout. Who is? MLB-TV has […]
OBSERVATIONS: Jack Armstrong, the All-American tuna boat captain
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering if the University of Dayton Flyers, the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals all can win on the same day (Sunday), but more concerned that all three might lose. —The baseball lockout brings back memories of the 1990 lockout, a 32-day affair that wiped out […]
OBSERVATIONS: Does anybody care about MLB’s lockout?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering how long it will be before baseball owners and the MLBPA bury the game, because it is already on life support with the fans. —Settle in, folks, this one is going to be a long winter’s nap, a snooze that might last through the spring, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is it time for fans to stage their own lockout?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after sitting in front of my laptop watching Wright State get it right against Purdue Fort Wayne in the Horizon League opener. —What’s it all about, Alfie, this baseball lockout? It’s about billionaire owners squabbling with multi-millionaire players over, what else, mostly cash, large piles of […]
OBSERVATIONS: Has the sporting world gone mad?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering how soon baseball owners will slap the locks on the clubhouse doors? —The sports world is absolutely stark-raving bonkers. It is a world full of carpetbaggers and those carpetbags are overstuffed with millions of dollars: —Brian Kelly abandoned his Notre Dame football players, a team […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some Thanksgiving tidbits to chew on
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, offering some short pre-Thanksgiving appetizers: —After watching Gonzaga dissect UCLA on the Bruins’ home court, it isn’t likely the Zags will lose a game this season, unless the Milwaukee Bucks are slipped onto the schedule. —One thing for certain, Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady and Father […]
OBSERVATIONS: Time for another ‘controversial’ Hall of Fame vote
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after paying $100 for a couple of turkey breasts and holding back from giving the store manager the bird. Whatever happened to turkey for ten cents a pound? Yeah, I know. Get off my lawn. —Qualified members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (ten years […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is Hunter Greene Ready for ‘The Show?’
UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave trying to figure out what to do until baseball returns. . .and that’s if it does return without a work stoppage. And the odds are that there will be a lockout. —You probably missed it, but the Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher, not quite the magnitude of Noah Syndergaard […]