OBSERVATIONS: How baseball’s new rules passed
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, watching the downpour out The Man Cave window and hoping there isn’t a California-like deluge on Opening Day Thursday. —PLAYERS GOT DUPED: With the power the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) owns, it is incredible that it permitted commissioner Rob Manfraud to pull this off. […]
OBSERVATIONS: WBC is baseball the way it should be played
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching one of the best baseball games I’ve ever seen, the WBC’s Japan-USA game, and I’ve covered more than 7,000 games. This one rivals Game 6 of the 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox. —BASEBALL AT ITS BEST: What the […]
OBSERVATIONS: The Good and the Bad from WBC
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, where the heater is asking for overtime because it works all day, from first NCAA tip-off to last NCAA horn, with some NIT and some World Baseball Classic sprinkled in. —A TOUGH BREAK: That was a thriller in the World Baseball Classic Saturday night, a USA […]
Fun Stuff From the UD Arena Floor
By Hal McCoy SOME FUN STUFF OFF THE ink-stained cuff –comments, quips and absurdities from court-side at UD Arena for the NCAA First Four: The NCAA First Four in Dayton is a basketball hoop-hoot. The tournament committee usually sends four teams to UD Arena that fans recognize and four teams that could rob a Bank […]
OBSERVATIONS: MLB Will Steal Away
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, adding to my college basketball fix by attending the NCAA First Four at UD Arena, even though I can’t name a single starter on any of the eight teams. Fairleigh Dickinson? It has two campuses in New Jersey, one in the United Kingdom and one in […]
OBSERVATIONS: No Salary Cap For MLB
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, enjoying one of the best times of the year. . .spring training, March Madness and warmer weather. —CAP-PING IT OFF: It is common knowledge that the only way to bring parity into major league baseball is a salary cap. It works in every other professional sport. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Pete, Meet Pete
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, watching a Houston Astros-New York Mets exhibition game for no apparent reason other than. . .IT’S BASEBALL. —PETE, MEET PETE: Pete Rose has company on the banned-from-baseball list and his name is Pete. A minor-league pitcher named Pete Bayer was banisheed in 2020 during the pandemic […]
OBSERVATIONS: Baseball is on ‘The Clockj’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, waiting for Nadine to put a clock in the cave to give me eight seconds to leave my La-Z-Boy and get to the dinner table. The Penalty? I have to eat the broccoli and asparagus. —TICK TOCK ON THE CLOCK: Leave it to new New York […]
OBSERVATIONS: Turning the Time Machine Back to 1995
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, still blurry-eyed and seeing double after laser surgery to my left eye this week. . .and some people believe I’m always blurry-eyed and seeing double. —LEATHER LUNGS?: One of the last times the Cincinnati Reds displayed any modicum of success, the general manager was Jim Bowden, […]