OBSERVATIONS: Why oh why did the Reds leave Sarasota
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, Siesta Key edition, as I sit under a beach umbrella on the sugary beach. —Ed Smith Stadium, spring training home for the Cincinnati Reds from 1997 to 2009, is looking strong and sturdy. The ol’ boy had a $50 million face lift after the Reds departed. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Disturbing comments filtering out of Goodyear
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a winter’s worth of reading about baseball and now ready for Real Baseball and here is what I’ve read: —The Spaceman Chronicles (Bill Lee), Scott Russell. —Season in Hell, Mike Shropshire. —Bill Veeck, Paul Dickson. —Tom Seaver, Bill Madden —24, John Shea. —Oscar Charleston, Jeremy […]
OBSERVATIONS: UM-OSU play a near-perfect basketball game
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after getting my second vaccine inoculation. . .with zero after effects. Can I stop wearing a mask? No? OK. —Michigan (No. 3) and Ohio State (No. 4) displayed college basketball at its finest Sunday afternoon in Columbus, both presenting strong and stern cases for a No. […]
OBSERVATIONS: The 1948 World Series champion Cleveland Indians stole signs, too
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave as the snow piles up and I wonder if spring training really starts this week. —As a life-long Cleveland Indians fanatic, it pains me somewhat to relate this story. . .but, here goes. The 1948 team was the last Indians team to win the World Series […]
OBSERVATIONS: Who is your GOAT quarterback?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, asking whomever has been praying for snow to cease and desist. . .please. —Now that the Stupor-Sleeper Bowl is over, just who is the NFL’s GOAT quarterback? Everybody, of course, is anointing Tom Brady and his seven Super Bowl rings. And he was this year’s MVP, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Reds are a little bit ‘short’ on shortstops
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a nice second-half nap during the Super Bowl. Did Tampa Bay hold on and win? —One of Yogi Berra’s many unintended witticisms was uttered when he was asked about playing third base and he said, “Ah, third ain’t so bad if nothin’ is hit to […]
OBSERVATIONS: ‘The Rest of the Story on Ken Griffey Sr.
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering when the analysts will get around to comparing shoe sizes, hat sizes, neck sizes, waist sizes and hair-length sizes between Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes. They’ve compared everything else. —For those of us who have been around for several decades, we remember The Paul Harvey […]
OBSERVATIONS: Big Klu hit for power without striking out
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering if I should shovel snow or smoke a Montecristo White Label Churchill in my La-Z-Boy. Guess which one won. —His number 18 is retired and there is a statue of Ted Kluszewski at Great American Ball Park, his bulging biceps clearly displayed. It is a […]
OBSERVATIONS: With Quinones, the joke always was on you
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, which my beautiful wife, Nadine, won’t inhabit because of the cigar smoke and the sports on the TV. And on this, her birthday, I’m lighting up a special cigar. . .but she won’t join me. —When Luis Quinones played for the Cincinnati Reds, he was a […]