OBSERVATIONS: A little football and a lot of baseball
By HAL McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering if a rainout or two might help the Cincinnati Reds in their wild card chase. Hey, if you don’t play ‘em, you can’t lose ‘em. —The University of Dayton football team has an, uh, interesting game Saturday afternoon at Welcome Stadium against Presbyterian College. It […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some say, ‘Bring back Trader Jack’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering how the suddenly Popsicle stick bats the Cincinnati Reds are swinging lately will handle LA’s Buehler, Scherzer and Kershaw. . .and that’s no law firm. But they do win most of their cases. —It was always easy to find Trader Jack McKeon. Just follow the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Baseballs just leave everybody in stitches
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering if the Cincinnati Reds should spend their off day in Pittsburgh Monday burning their bats. They aren’t working. Time to order a new batch because time is fast slipping away. —And speaking of equipment, who doesn’t love to hold a baseball in their hands? I […]
OBSERVATIONS: Of gambling, fraud and money, money, money
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, displaying my degenerate love for baseball by sitting in my La-Z-Boy watching two of the worst teams in baseball skirmish, the Pittsburgh Pirates-Chicago Cubs. And then I watched a minor league game, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans against the Lynchburg Hellcats —The Cubs were wearing their hideous […]
OBSERVATIONS: Robo-ump is coming to a park near you. . .soon
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, trying to type with one hand because my right shoulder aches like a toothache — and as Cincinnati Reds pitcher Norm Charlton once told teammates Rob Dibble, “Dibs, y0u got more problems than a runover skunk.” —An article in this week’s New Yorker magazine caught my […]
OBSERVATIONS: Rookie of the Year (India? Stephenson? Gutierrez?)
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering about my National League Rookie of the Year ballot. I can vote for three, so should it be 1. Jonathan India, 2. Tyler Stephenson and 3. Vladmir Gutierrez, or should it be 1. Tyler Stephenson, 2. Jonathan India, 3. Vladimir Gutierrez, or 1. Vladimir Gutierrez, […]
OBSERVATION: They picked one wrong team for first Field of Dreams game
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering where summer went after seeing both the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals play exhibition games. . .and fans had to pay for that awfulness? And Ohio State plays for keeps in just a few hours (At my age, time zips by at warp speed, so […]
OBSERVATIONS: How I almost landed on the writers’ injured list
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave, which feels more like The Man Sauna and is so hot my Havanese opts to leave me and recline on the dining room cold air register. Smart dog, dumb daddy —Speaking of dumb daddy, how many out there have injured themselves following the Cincinnati Reds? Raise […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is it time to ban in-season baseball trades?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering why MLB can’t finish the 2021 season before releasing its 2022 schedule? I mean, I can’t wait to see who the Cleveland – – – – dians play on June 14, 2022. —Now that the baseball trade dust — more like a trade cyclone — […]