Stevie Wilkerson proved baseball must be salvaged; always play like Roberto Clemente; The Baseball Network experiment proved the nineties were not perfect
Goodbye to the Cubs on WGN ; staggering to the finish line; Thames or Thames: the original gif or gif
Oh my baseball was *nuts* back in the day; going from a little stitious to superstitious in September; recapping the 2019 NL East champion Miami Marlins
20 years ago today, Pedro struck out 17 Yankees; MLB has the other professional sports leagues beat in video games at least; Nico Hoerner is the lighting of the beacon, possibly the precious.
Thinking of the Utah coal miners after the Tyler Skaggs news; a rundown of what happens when you watch a 15-inning game; teaching your friend in vain that Mike Tauchman isn’t actually good
The Baltimore Oriole confirmed he was a duck all along; Don Orsillo is still missed by Red Sox fans; Kyle Ryan is due to become more famous than his cousin, an expressway.
If the pilgrims had landed in Laguna Beach…things would be different. – Bill Walton, August 17th, 2019 The crowd of passengers gathered anxiously around the home port, murmuring amongst themselves. Their first attempted voyage roughly a month ago had failed to grant them passage farther than Cornwall, and hostility toward them had only grown since…
I’ve spent way too much time on the internet since around 2003. That’s more than enough time to learn about the dangers of going down a YouTube hole using a Wikipedia shovel. Sometimes it leads you into a dark part of the internet that you regretted visiting and you want desperately to scrub what you…
I was seven years old sitting rapt and cross-legged in front of a TV so old you needed to stand up and turn the dial every time you wanted to change the channel. There was zero chance anyone in my family was going to change the station that day, though. We were watching my cousin…
With thanks to my husband Steve Stofka for sharing his story. It was 1967, and I was a senior in high school earning extra money by umping 5th-grade little league games. They only paid for one umpire per game at that level, so I covered the entire field from a spot behind the pitcher. There…
It is a rare occasion when a woman gets to be in charge of her own narrative. More frequently, women’s stories when they’re told are done so through the eyes and voices of men who have a vested interest in telling only those parts which do not threaten their power. Our collection of stories as…