OBSERVATIONS: A Rose Is A Rose, For Pete’s Sake
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wandering aimlessly because we are having some work done inside the house and the contractor has taken over The Man Cave with his equipment and tools. Fortunately, he is a Reds fan. —HIT KING FOREVER: If you haven’t read it by now, you are taking a […]
OBSERVATIONS: Dayton Dragons Get Off To ‘Hairy’ Start
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering when we’ll see MLB games without the fans dressed as if they are on vacation in Antarctica. ‘Give me head with hair, long beautiful hair. Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen. Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer.’ Rhett Lowder looks as if […]
McCoy: Reds ‘Freeze’ Out Phillies After Seven-Hour Delay
By Hal McCoy The original schedule said the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies would throw the first pitch Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m. With a foreboding weather forecast, on Tuesday they moved the time back to 4:05. That didn’t work, either. Both teams hibernated all afternoon in their clubhouse as a tarp covered Citizens Bank […]
McCoy: Bryce Was Not Nice To Reds (Three Home Runs!!!)
By Hal McCoy On a freezing night in Citizens Bank Park, the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies were as cold as ice on a Tuesday night more suited for outdoor hockey. That is with the exception of Philadelphia’s $330 million man, Bryce Harper. Harper, 0-for-2024 when the frigid night began, smacked, smashed and smoked three […]
OBSERVATIONS: Oh No, Not Another No-No (Oh, Yes)
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, totally enthralled and mesmerized over what already has happened in baseball in less than a week. What a game. —A BLANKING FOR BLANCO: Baseball stories consistently are head-scratchers, right off the back lots of movie studios producing ‘B’ movies that are too smaltzy to be believable. […]
McCoy: Reds Ride Steer’s Grand Slam To 6-3 Win
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds’ flair for dramatics is insatiable and seemingly it is done with a cast of thousands. This time, on a chill Monday night in the City of Brotherly love, it was Spencer Steer providing the heroics — a grand slam home run in the 10th inning to lift the Reds […]
ASK HAL: Will Gambling Eventually Affect Baseball?
By Hal McCoy Q: Considering the widespread legalization of sports gambling, does this pose a threat to the integrity of baseball? — DAVE, Miamisburg/Centerville/Beavercreek. A: Absolutely, which is why the Shohei Ohtani mess is a crisis. MLB players are permitted to gamble, as long as it is with legal wagering sites and emporiums and as […]
OBSERVATIONS: Big Klu Was Baseball’s ‘Gentle Goliath’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, proposing that Happy New Year is not on January 1, it is baseball’s Opening Day. So. . .Happy New Year, basebal fans. —KLU HAD A CLUE: Ted Kluszewski could hit. He could hit for power and he could hit for average. And he didn’t say much, […]
McCoy: Reds serve up a ‘double’ Martini in 8-2 win
By Hal McCoy There is nothing in the Wide World of Baseball like Opening Day in Cincinnati. The pomp and circumstance is palpable. No other franchise has an Opening Day parade and then Great American Ball Park becomes the red sea — red hats, red sweaters, red jackets and on semi-frigid days like Thursday’s 2024 […]