OBSERVATIONS: Some Off-The-Cuff Baseball And Other Stuff
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering who else out there found sticks and lumps of coal under their Christmas tree. —VEECK, AS IN WRECK: One paragraph from Gary Smith’s fabulous book, ‘Going Deep,’ fully describes the life of maverick baseball owner Bill Veeck: “(Veeck) is responsible for the ivy on the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Loving the Dodgers is Like Loving U.S. Steel
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wishing all my loyal and wonderful readers a Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas and may Santa Claus fill your stockings with all your hopes and dreams as he has done for me. —DODGER DOMINANCE: How did the common folks in years long gone root for U.S. Steel, […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Pour It On Oakland For The Sake Of ‘NET’
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — The word was that the University of Dayton basketball team should be on the lookout Wednesday night for an Oakland University basketball team that was hard to handle and downright frightening. After all, the Golden Grizzlies beat Xavier on X’s floor and held their own against Ohio State and […]
OBSERVATIONS: Of Pick-off Moves and Other Stuff
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wasting time watching these early bowl games when wasting away in Margaritaville might better serve my time. —PICKING ‘EM OFF: A couple of blogs back, I typed a couple of tidbiits about former pitcher Tim Fortugno, who spent some of the 1994 season with the Cincinnati […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Best Beware of ‘Trap’ Game vs. Oakland
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — There isn’t a trap door, as far as anybody knows, located anywhere on the University of Dayton Arena basketball floor. But as far as the UD Flyers are concerned. . .beware. A game Wednesday night against Oakland University is a trap waiiting to snap. There is no doubt the […]
OBSERVATIONS: A big, bad weekend for Ohio’s NFLers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after an exhilarating weekend for UD, the Bengals and Browns. Sorry, Miami, but you had a wonderful seasona —THEY’RE BOTH CB’s: Which Ohio professional football team do you prefer, the Cincinnati Bengals or the Cleveland Browns? To me, it’s the difference between Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee […]
OBSERVATIONS: The Twisting Tale of Pitcher Tim Fortugno
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, brandishing a new back pack that I ordered November 29 and it arrived December 14. Amazon must have shipped it via the Amazon River. Why is it Nadine orders from Amazon at 8 a.m. and the order arrives at noon? I believe it is because Amazon […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some Ohtani Fallout. . .And It’s Money Falling
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, acting busy while Nadine wraps a couple dozen Christmas gifts (Me wrap? I’m all thumbs and crooked thumbs at that) . —OHTANI OH MY: Some fallout over the $700 million contract the Los Angeles Dodgers gave Shohei Ohtani. . .and that fallout is $100 bills falling […]
OBSERVATIONS: What Is $700 Million Worth Japanese Yen?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering how much $700 million is in Japanese Yen. OK, I looked it up. It’s 103,635,000,000 yen. —ONE BIG OOPS: How the mighty do fall. Once upon a time, Sports Illustrated was the mightiest of sports journalis, the sports bible. Its writers were the best. No […]