OBSERVATIONS: Reds Get Snubbed, Only Diaz An All-Star
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, awaiting games with Carly Simon-like anticipation every day, wondering what The Mid-Size Red Machne will do next. Maybe this team might eventually size up, but there will never be another Big Red Machine. Maybe they can become The Big Red Machine 02 or The Big Red […]
OBSERVATIONS: Reds Are The Fastest Team On The Basepaths
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Cave after a boring day off because there was no Cincinnati Reds game, although I did watch the Pirates beat the Padres through the thick smoke sent to us, with love, from Canada. —RUN REDS, RUN: Anybody who has watched the Cincinnati Reds speed around the bases like […]
OBSERVATIONS: Any Have Any Pitchers The Reds Can Have?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, reading an anthology of baseball columns written by Damon Runyon, which ran on forever because he writes about the game, the weather, the celebrities in the stands, gamblers, descriptions of the ball parks, what the guys in the press box were saying, what the vendors were […]
OBSERVATIONS: Hey, Reds, Watch Out For the Onrushing Cubs
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and a warning to the Reds, “Don’t pay much attention to the Milwaukee Brewers, but watch out for the onrushing Chicago Cubs. —ONE IN A MILLION: Never in 50 years of chronically the Cincinnati Reds have I written about anything like Friday night in Great American […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some Stuff About the Rampaging Reds
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wishing the Cincinnati Reds would put those black City Connect uniforms in a bag with a bunch of mothballs and leave them there. —REAL ROAD WARRIORS: Anthony Daniel Conaway researched the 12-game winning streak put together by the 1957 Cincinnati Reds and came up with a […]
OBSERVATIONS: Are the Reds For Real? They aren’t Memorex
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering if it is time to order playoff tickets. . .and I don’t mean in Tampa or Arizona or Houston. —THE REAL REDS: Are the Cincinnati Reds for real? It certainly isn’t Memorex because who wants to memorize last season’s 100-loss sleepwalk. The Reds are 2 […]
OBSERVATIONS: Elly’s Time Was More Than Past Due
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave after two bowls of my favorite cereal, Frosted Flakes, which I have to share with my canine pals, Paige, Quinn and Parker, because they love Frosted Flakes as much as a do (without the bananas). —IT’S TIME FOR ELLY: It would be easier to twist a […]
OBSERVATIONS: Reds Loving One-Run Games
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering if, like me, the Cincinnati Reds front office is pinching itself to make sure we aren’t dreaming. —ONE, THE LONELIEST NUMBER: When the season began, it looked as if the Cincinnati Reds were destined to lose nearly every one-run game they played. They lost seven […]
OBSERVATIONS: What is a Trash Panda?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching The Cincinnati Reds lose a game to Philadelphia in the ninth and win a game from Philadelphia in the ninth. As Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” —WHAT A NO-NO: The Chattanooga Lookouts, Cincinnati’s Class AA affiliate, had a no-hitter […]