OBSERVATIONS: Rose makes ‘news’ when he doesn’t even try
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, gazing at some old Cincinnati Reds media guides for a large doze of baseball nostalgia. —Does anybody make the news more often, for no apparent reason, than Peter Edward Rose? And that’s even though he sits in Las Vegas, minding his own business, signing autographs and […]
OBSERVATIONS: All baseball, all the time (maybe)
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, thinking about baseball, baseball and baseball. Unfortunately, all I can do is think about baseball. . .and write about it. It was poet/essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, “Money often costs too much.” Ol’ Ralph died in 1882, so it is doubtful he was a baseball […]
OBSERVATIONS: Hey, guys, just shut up and play
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave trying to watch Korean baseball and failing miserably, even with former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Dan Straily pitching for the Lotte Giants. It is NOT the real thing. It is like drinking Royal Crown Cola instead of Coca-Cola. —It is not a good look. . .or a […]
OBSERVATIONS: Pitcher Rob Murphy was an aficionado of horses and black bikini panties
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a day in the backyard playing cornhole. . .and I’m pretty certain I saw cameras from ESPN. —Lexington lamp guru David Shannon pointed out that former Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Rob Murphy celebrated his 60th birthday this week. Murphy made his Major League debut with […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is MLB’s ‘No-fighting’ edict really ‘The Astros Rule?’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, choking on the dust created by three workers tearing up our old flooring to replace it with wood. Four words: ‘Nadine better love it.’ But she says she is floored by it. —A wonderful retired scout offered this about baseball’s no-fighting edict if/when the sport resumes. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Didn’t MLB always punish fighting?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, hiding from Nadine because she wants to move furniture before new wood flooring is laid down. —The latest hip-slapping edict out of the MLB office: If/when baseball returns, there will be no fighting, under no circumstances. Offenders will be fined heavily and suspended. Does that mean […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is it time to shut down baseball for 2020?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, exhausted from watching all the ESPN talking heads babble and babble about Michael Jordan, even though ‘The Last Dance’ series was fascinating. —Maybe it is time to just shut it down, lock the doors, put the uniforms in mothballs, lock the bats and balls in a […]
OBSERVATIONS: The day Concepcion went ’round and ’round and ’round
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and as Martin Luther King once said, “Free at last, free at last, free at last.” Well, almost. —It was about this time of year in 1976 when the Cincinnati Reds were in Wrigley Field for a series against the Chicago Cubs. Shortstop Davey Concepcion wasn’t […]
OBSERVATIONS: Mitch McConnell makes plea for baseball
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, never believing that it would be fun peering out the back window at a cardinal (As long as it isn’t a St. Louis Cardinal). —Politics should have no place in baseball and I certainly avoid it in this space, but. . . We need baseball, right? […]