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, […]
Trevor Bauer: First Reds pitcher to win the Cy Young
By Hal McCoy It was mid-September and Trevor Bauer was seated behind a microphone after painting another near-flawless landscape on the pitching mound. Bauer was asked if he thought he should win the National League Cy Young Award. He didn’t hesitate. If he had been on the mound his delivery was so quick he would […]
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 […]
Tom Carroll gets his World Series ring — 45 years late
By Hal McCoy This is a feel-good story that should put a smile on faces and puts the current Cincinnati Reds regime on a high plateau and pedestal. Unless you are a deep-in-depth Cincinnati Reds fan, you may not remember Tom Carroll. When a player has a brief career in the majors it is said […]
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. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is there enough cash for free agents?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave waiting to see if Penn State is as bad as it showed at Indiana or if Indiana is much better than we all believed. A guess. Ohio State beats Penn State by more than the 13 Las Vegas predicts. —And now it begins. The St. Louis […]