Suarez Delivers Big Bomb
By Hal McCoy It was inevitable and the inevitable transpired in a gargantuan way Sunday afternoon in sun-drenched and wind-swept Great American Ball Park. Eugenio Suarez did what Eugenio Suarez does best, a ultra-timely upper deck three-run home run. All it did was provide the Cincinnati Reds with a 3-2 win over the Boston Red […]
Reds Win One In Extras!!
By Hal McCoy Dane Myers neither knew nor cared that the Cincinnati Reds were 3-12 in extra-inning games in 2025. Dane Myers neither knew nor cared that the Cincinnati Reds were 22-22 in one-run games in 2025. He was playing for the woeful Miami Marlins in 2025 until two days after Christmas last year when […]
Not A Banner Day For Reds
By Hal McCoy The Findlay Market parade rolled perfectly down Race Street Thursday afternoon. Grand Marshal Jeff Brantley, fashionably attired in his old Reds numbefr 45 jersey, waved at the appropriate time and waved at the appropriate people. Great American Ball Park, with its new Joey Votto clock, was manicured to the specifications of Augusta […]
Flyers Fall In NIT Quarterfinals
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — It was not an engraved invitation nor was it a hand-written invitation. But the Illionois State basketball team definitey was inviting the University of Dayton to join it at the top of the scoreboard. The Flyers did knock on the door, but couldn’t get it open Wednesday night in […]
Some Early-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and it’s only two days until Happy New Year. Yep, the new year doesn’t start on January 1, it starts on Opening Day. —NO RESPECT: Rodney Dangerfield does not play for the Cincinnati Reds, but it looks as if he should. No respect. MLB’s web-site listed […]
Pre-season Reds Column
By Hal McCoy As winter sped closer and closer to spring training, Cincinnati Reds fans were frustrated and saying, “Same ol’ Reds, a wasted off-season, no improvements, no significant additions.” What the Reds seemed to be doing was setting a record for signing outfielders to minor league contracts with invitations to the big league camp. […]
UD Advances To NIT Quarterfinals
By Hal McCoy Wilmington, N.C. — As it turns out, the University of Dayton basketball team is Ohio’s last team standing. Yes, it is only the NIT, college basketball’s consolation prize, but the Flyers will take what they can get. And they took it big-time Saturday night on Tobacco Road. The Flyers advanced to the […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, no longer counting the days until Opening Day, but counting the hours and soon it will be minutes. —THE OPPOSITES: Does spring training numbers and statistics really mean anything? For one thing, teams only play about 30 exhibition games and players don’t play entire nine innings. […]
Flyers Batter Bradley
By Hal McCoy Peoria, ILL. — The assignment, if the University of Dayton chose to accept it, was a difficult one. The Flyers not only chose to accept it, they embraced it and passed the test with high-flying colors. After losing the Atlantic 10 Conference final to Virginia Commonwealth University, missing out on an NCAA […]