OBSERVATIONS: Who said they deadened the baseballs?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a week on Siesta Key, the most beautiful beach in the U.S., where the sand is like sugar. But there is no place like home, especially home plate. —They said they are deadening the baseball this year, hoping to cut down on the lethal true […]
OBSERVATIONS: Why oh why did the Reds leave Sarasota
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, Siesta Key edition, as I sit under a beach umbrella on the sugary beach. —Ed Smith Stadium, spring training home for the Cincinnati Reds from 1997 to 2009, is looking strong and sturdy. The ol’ boy had a $50 million face lift after the Reds departed. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Disturbing comments filtering out of Goodyear
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a winter’s worth of reading about baseball and now ready for Real Baseball and here is what I’ve read: —The Spaceman Chronicles (Bill Lee), Scott Russell. —Season in Hell, Mike Shropshire. —Bill Veeck, Paul Dickson. —Tom Seaver, Bill Madden —24, John Shea. —Oscar Charleston, Jeremy […]
OBSERVATIONS: UM-OSU play a near-perfect basketball game
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after getting my second vaccine inoculation. . .with zero after effects. Can I stop wearing a mask? No? OK. —Michigan (No. 3) and Ohio State (No. 4) displayed college basketball at its finest Sunday afternoon in Columbus, both presenting strong and stern cases for a No. […]
Votto vows to return to his personal ‘Days of Thunder.’
By Hal McCoy Joey Votto not only enjoys ‘The Bat Flip Brigade,’ he wants to join them. . .blast some baseball so hard he can nonchalantly flip his bat in celebration. “You see guys doing some real cool bat flips on Twitter that you forward to your buddy,” said the Cincinnati Reds 37-year-old first baseman. […]
Tucker, Tyler give Reds ‘Double-T’ catching tandem
By Hal McCoy The guys behind the mask this season for the Cincinnati Reds are a pair of ‘Ts,’ Tucker and Tyler. It will be veteran two-time Gold Glove winner Tucker Barnhart and rookie Tyler Stephenson performing the team’s catching duties. For Stephenson, it has been a long and winding trail for a No. 1 […]
Bell says Reds have ‘options’ for shortstop, closer
By Hal McCoy The two bold-faced question marks involving the 2021 Cincinnati Reds are: —Who is the shortstop? And that’s no Abbott & Costello act, although sometimes it seems so. —Who is the closer and what is the makeup of the bullpen. Spring training opened this week in Goodyear, Ariz. and if fans expected those […]
OBSERVATIONS: The 1948 World Series champion Cleveland Indians stole signs, too
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave as the snow piles up and I wonder if spring training really starts this week. —As a life-long Cleveland Indians fanatic, it pains me somewhat to relate this story. . .but, here goes. The 1948 team was the last Indians team to win the World Series […]
OBSERVATIONS: Who is your GOAT quarterback?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, asking whomever has been praying for snow to cease and desist. . .please. —Now that the Stupor-Sleeper Bowl is over, just who is the NFL’s GOAT quarterback? Everybody, of course, is anointing Tom Brady and his seven Super Bowl rings. And he was this year’s MVP, […]