Words on birds and teams that don’t yearn; 2019 words for 2019; words on players liked for their words
New world, new identity; George Willyounot?; Grandpa Rossy Goes to Camp
There has yet to be an Indian in the big leagues; there aren’t many female scouts either; the Tampa Bay Rays whiffed on one front office hire
Welcome to beautiful Peoria, USA, baby Mariners; an ode to the Nationals that came before; “old” MVPs like Howie Kendrick prove it ain’t over for us yet
Maybe it was time the Dodgers were the mouse; the Yankees are always the cat; there are a lot of wins in this red Camry
You could stop wondering how many calories Pete Alonso burned on his home run trots now; how missing the playoffs helps you look better in wedding photos; if you hate seeing a TV character get embarrassed, you really hate the Wild Card games
Félix Hernández as personal muse; 19 inning marathon games are actually good; fixing baseball by making it the NFL
Fixing the MLB Draft by making it the Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana Draft (there’s confetti and a DJ); when Statcast fails us, we cry inside; Brooklyn is a winner again
The future of baseball broadcasting; when a baseball does not baseball properly; the hamate bone is rather dumb
Cormac McCarthy authors the NL wild card race; Outside the Lines: Lenny Randle, outside the lines; Keon Broxton and the Art of the Duel
(There’s a baseball in here. Can you find it?) Yesterday in the Texas League, Jordan Cowan of the Arkansas Travelers popped up a fly ball that should have been an easy out for either of the two Corpus Christi Hooks positioned on the left side of the infield. Narrator: it was not an easy out….
Copley’s mind was on his dinner as he watched the couple shepherd their two children down the tree-lined path away from his building. He’d been marinating a steak all day and was planning to grill it in the shared picnic area behind his apartment building, in the last of the good weather before the chill…