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 […]
OBSERVATIONS: An ‘Accidental’ Uecker Homer
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave before heading to UD Arena this afternoon to see if the Dayton Flyers can locate their lost mojo. —A HOMER, UECKER STYLE: During his six years as a player, Bob Uecker hit only 14 home runs. One, though, was noteworthy. It was off Sandy Koufax and […]
A Tribute To Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker
By Hal McCoy Baseball lost the biggest slice of humor it ever had this week. Mr. Baseball passed away. And every baseball fans knows who Mr. Baseball was. It’s Bob Uecker, baseball’s all-time best deadpan humorist, a guy whose humor was always self-deprecating. He was 90 years old, but 20 years old in his baseball-shaped […]
Observations: The Week (Weak) Of The Birth Of The DH
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and in this episode it is all baseball all the time, despite temperatures outside as cold as Bob Gibson’s heart. —OH, LET ME HIT: It’s a Happy Birthday this week to D.H. — and I don’t mean Don Hoak or Dick Howser or Dave Henderson or […]
Some weekend Observations…
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and there is nothing for me under our Christmas tree so I guess it’s like the song, “I’m getting nuttin’ for Christmas, ‘cause I ain’t been nuttin’ but bad.” —SO HIT ME: Ken Griffey Jr. faced Nolan Ryan numerous times, but he remembers his first time […]