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? […]
OBSERVATIONS: Where baseball is heading is not good
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, about to anwer Nadine’s call to change a light bulb in the sun room. Why? Every night before we go to sleep, I give Nadine three kisses and quickly ask, “What are we doing tomorrow?” Last night she said, “Big day. We are going to change […]
OBSERVATIONS: When you’re bored, buy some new shoes
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching three or four episodes every night of Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad sounds like every horse, dog or track star I’ve ever bet on. —If the shoe fits. . .buy it. How is this for boredom? I ordered four pairs of shoes (Don’t all shoes […]
OBSERVATIONS: When a ‘bad guy’ was really a ‘good guy’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, politely saying no when Nadine asks if I want to work a jigsaw puzzle. I am against anything that contains back-to-back Z’s. —This one falls under a cliche: Never judge a book by its cover. And I hope all of you consider that when you see […]
OBSERVATIONS: The day I told a manager he was fired’
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave where I was asked what day it is and I said, “Everyday.” —One of the things I am not proud of is that I am probably the only baseball writer in history to tell a manager that he was fired. It was 1984. . .and purely […]