OBSERVATIONS: When Cincinnati nearly turned Vida Blue into red
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave waiting to see which NBA team makes Obi Toppin a multi-millionaire. And you have to love what Toppin said when asked if his Dayton Flyers would have won the NCAA tournament if the pandemic hadn’t intervened: “Hell, yeah.” —It was December, 1977 and baseball’s winter meetings […]
OBSERVATIONS: The day John Elway broke my heart
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, leaving briefly to answer the door to see what Amazon had delivered today because it stops at our house daily, as if it is a bus stop. —As any fan worth their brown and orange knows, the Cleveland Browns have not played in a Super Bowl. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Bring Montreal back to Major League Baseball
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a full weekend of watching college football, mostly a bevy of lopsided games and wondering how close next Saturday’s Ohio State-Indiana game will be. . .or if it even will be played. The Buckeyes have won 15 straight over the Hoosiers since losing, 41-7, in […]
OBSERVATIONS: A tale from the streets of New York
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, mesmerized in front of the TV watching The Masters, missing Tiger’s roaring gallery but thankful they aren’t piping in fake noise. —There are times when a baseball writer deserves combat pay and a Kevlar vest. After a night game in the junkyard they called Shea Stadium, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Johnstone, ‘The Prince of Pranks,’ passes away
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, sitting bleary-eyed in my La-Z-Boy at 8 a.m., wondering why I would stay up to watch the Jets-Patriots. I believe it is call acute sportsitis. Recommended treatment: Not treatable, just make certain the patient has a TV in sight and a remote in hand at all […]
OBSERVATIONS: Why college football is so great (again)
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering if we’ll ever see Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields throw an off-target pass. In three games, he has thrown 11 touchdown passes and only 11 incompletions. One incompletion was a spike to stop the clock and at least four others were dropped passes. Fields could […]
OBSERVATIONS: Who has the biggest digits for Trevor Bauer?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, trying to avoid all talk of red and blue, unless he pertains to the University of Dayton football and basketball programs. —Ken Davidoff of the New York Post says he knows somebody in the baseball industry who knows Trevor Bauer very well. The guy said, “Trevor […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is door open for Fields to win the Heisman?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave not yet suffering from baseball withdrawal and not yet suffering from football overload. — Just in case, Justin Fields should leave an empty spot on a shelf for the Heisman Trophy. The media Golden Boy, of course, is Trevor Lawrence, the Goldilocks quarterback at Clemson. And […]
Some ghostly stories at hotels occupied by baseball teams
By Hal McCoy On this Halloween weekend, how about some paranormal ghost stories involving a couple of hotels occupied by the Cincinnati Reds and most other major league teams? The Vinoy in St. Petersburg and The Pfister in Milwaukee are two of the most haunted hotels in America and MLB teams stay at both regularly. […]