OBSERVATIONS: What’s Next For The Reds. . .If Anything?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave with some words to live by in 2024 from my great friend in Sarasota, Tom Melzoni: “This is not the year to get everything you want. This is the year to appreciate everything you have.” Amen. . .and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year to […]
McCoy: Reds Infield Remains Overpopulated
By Hal McCoy A checklist on what the Cincinnati Reds have done so far this off-season to improve the team can be scribbled on a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2-inch pocket notepad, with a lot of empty pages. They’ve made one noteworthy move, but it is only noteworthy in that it is something that requires […]
OBSERVATIONS: Trader Jack McKeon Belongs In ‘The Hall’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2024 with a promise to keep this up until my head hits the laptop. —READY FOR JACK: It is time, past time, to consider Trader Jack McKeon for the baseball Hall of Fame. The man is a vibrant 93 […]
OBSERVATIONS: Flacco Goes From Couch Potato to Sweet Potato
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, staring at the Christmas tree, wishing it would take itself down and wishing the trinkets would put themselves away. —JUST PLAIN JOE: From couch potato to sweet potato, Joe Flacco could run for mayor in Cleveland and win in a landslide. Until a few weeks ago, […]
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 […]