It was the end of the seventies in Canada, and the seagulls just weren’t right. Lake Ontario, said to be the most polluted freshwater in the world in 1979, was warping its herring gull population. Pesticides and industrial waste in the region were dulling their parental instincts: They were abandoning their nests, laying fewer eggs,…
The Las Cruces Vaqueros suspended baseball activity in 2015. A few months ago, a notice appeared scheduling tryouts. Anticipate the future. Think about it. Unaffiliated with majors or minors, join the Pecos League in the high or low desert. Champion Bakersfield Train Robbers fans nearly moony for bandanna’ed mascot share the same logo with two…
TO: All staff FROM: Doug RE: Office laptops Hey gang, just a reminder that your work computers are just that–for WORK. They are NOT for personal use. Please don’t remove them from the premises without checking with me. Thanks. TO: All staff FROM: Doug RE: Office laptops, again I can’t believe I have to do…
The teacher handed me an envelope, and my heart started racing. I never got envelopes. I never got called out. I was very much a background character of my second grade class, putting my books in my bag and thinking about Nintendo. I wondered what it could be. Had I won a prize? Had they…
Reunion answers questions better left alone. What we look like together, on a team again. If the wind has teeth it’s not to bite with but rather scratch from hip down to ankle, to strip one pinstripe away and chill your flank. What ever changed except the date on the calendar. Not you. Still, the…
Look, I’ve got no idea what’s going on at MLB HQ. The Mishandling of Everything Committee is hard at work, turning Rob Manfred mid-sleep night whispers into bylaws. The mascot spaying and neutering division has fallen way behind. People are accidentally ingesting baseball weightlessness serum and floating into ceiling fans. Who knows. All we have…
It has long been told Cincinnati had the first professional baseball team, back in the days when baseball was two words. The name “Reds” was short for “Red Stockings,” referring to the color of the socks. It is very likely that team no longer exists in Cincinnati, given there is already a team in the…
Despite pouring money into improving the product in the off-season, MiLB.tv remains charmingly low-rent, which is exactly how I like it. Give me broadcaster chatter and Power Point slide art and wonky camera angles any day over slickly produced MLB.tv content or that godawful Imagine Dragons song being shouted at me every half-inning through a…
If you let it, hate can get in anywhere.
The rain had started around midday, and it couldn’t have matched the mood more accurately. Bryce Harper‘s return to Washington had been anticipated so much by local fans in a cold, sad way. With no motivation to root for their former star, Nationals fans had enthusiastically embraced Harper’s new villainous role, with many using duct…