OBSERVATIONS: What They Say And What They Mean
By Hal McCoy OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave with another effort of trying to make words behave. And this one is just for fun. —WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN: Despite what you see out your back window in Ohio, baseball is among us, spring training is here and hope springs eternal in every big league camp. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Meeting New Cigar-Smoking Faces
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and while I was sunning myself in the Caribbean the wacky world went on but I was unaware of any of it. —TALKIN’ BASEBALL: There was one area on the mammoth Holland America Nieu Statendam for we sinners who smoked — aft of the boat near […]
OBSERVATIONS: Did the Reds Do Enough to Contend?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and, no, my laptop is not going on the cruise with me next week. I fear that after a couple of days at the blackjack table I might havve to hock it. But this UO is extra-long to make up for the upcoming week’s hiatus. —DID […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some ‘Fourth Ballot’ Head Scratchers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, just five days away from a Caribbean cruise and 12 days until pitchers catchers and writers report to spring training. . .and I’m not sure whch excites me more. —NOT ONE AND DONE: The mystery of the one miscreant who didn’t include Ichiro on his Hall […]
OBSERVATIONS: Why Not Trevor Bauer?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, anxiously awaiting the Wright State University ‘First Pitch’ baseball dinner Friday night because one of my favorite baseball people, Clint Hurdle, is the keynote speaker. —TRACING TREVOR: MLB teams constantly search for starting pitchers and throw cash in bundles bigger than hay bales to any guy […]
OBSERVATIONS: ‘All The Lies About Babe Ruth Are True’ — Teammate Waite Hoyt
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, enjoying the 30-degree heat wave and rummaging through the cupboards for my suntan lotion. —RUTHIAN TALES: In the last episode, UD point guard Malachi Smith talked about not reading any books when he promised he would. How about Babe Ruth? He claimed the only book he […]
OBSERVATIONS: What’s In A Reds’ Nickname?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave counting down the days on my fingers and my toes and Nadine’s fingers and toes until spring training. —WHAT’S IN A (NICK)NAME: Somebody asked who was the player Pete Rose nicknamed ‘Eye Chart.’ I vaguely remembler him doing that, but the player’s name escapes me. There […]
OBSERVATIONS: Reds Snubbed In Player Rankings
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave before departing for the Agonis Club to listen to bracketologist Joe Lunardi talk about the up-down-and-around college basketball scene. —THE BIG SNUB: Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime? If Van Gogh played professional baseball, he’d play for the […]
OBSERVATIONS: UD’s Grant Waxes Eloquently On Flyers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, breaking in a new heater as I pace the room awating the Ohio State-Notre Dame game — and it is No-tra Dame, not Norter Dame. —IT IS SPELLED T-E-A-M: After the University of Dayton basketball team lost three straight Atlantic-10 games, social media was a conflagration […]