The end of the short trip to Arizona found me in Mesa, at HoHoKam Park, watching the Cubs and the A’s. HoHoKam could pass for a Double-A park, at least from the outside, and is a stark contrast to Phoenix Municipal Stadium. Oddly, the condition of each field was reversed, with HoHoKam’s diamond resembling a…
Sunshine, blue skies, green grass, and throwing errors.
If you’re A’s manager Art Howe, it was a lovely Monday except for that last part. The A’s made three errant tosses on their way to a 7-1 loss to the Diamondbacks yesterday.
Lots of stuff to get to, so I’ll cheat and make this a bullet-points column:
It happens every spring. Some unknown kid shows up for camp, just happy for the opportunity to hang out with the big club before he’s shipped out to the minor-league complex. Only when he takes the mound, he surprises everyone by throwing harder and better than he ever has before. And when he toes the…
Sunshine, blue skies, green grass, and throwing errors. If you’re A’s manager Art Howe, it was a lovely Monday except for that last part. The A’s made three errant tosses on their way to a 7-1 loss to the Diamondbacks yesterday. Lots of stuff to get to, so I’ll cheat and make this a bullet-points…
I love road trips. From traveling up and down the east coast as a teenager to play in Strat tournaments, to the famed East Coast Hockey Tour of 1992-93 with some college buddies, to an 11-day, three-stop cross-country trip in 1994, and on through any number of short trips since then, I really enjoy getting out of town and doing stuff.
I’m in Phoenix, a few hours into a short run to see a Cactus League game or two. On Monday, I’ll be at the A’s/Diamondbacks tilt at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, one of the last games before teams in Arizona break camp and prepare for Opening Day.
I love road trips. From traveling up and down the east coast as a teenager to play in Strat tournaments, to the famed East Coast Hockey Tour of 1992-93 with some college buddies, to an 11-day, three-stop cross-country trip in 1994, and on through any number of short trips since then, I really enjoy getting…
When we dealt Keith Law to the Blue Jays for a player to be named (hey, J.P., you getting on that?), we lost a key member of our staff. Oh, Keith was great on economic issues, and a significant contributor to the book, and always good for a batch of brownies when we had bake sales, but most importantly, he was our fantasy baseball guy.
There are a lot of things I want to get to, some from the news, some from an overflowing mailbag, so let’s just jump right in
There are a lot of things I want to get to, some from the news, some from an overflowing mailbag, so let’s just jump right in: Derek Bell and "Operation Shutdown" Reporters salivate over a guy like Derek Bell. In case you’re the one person who missed it, Pirates outfielder Bell threatened to instigate something…
When we dealt Keith Law to the Blue Jays for a player to be named (hey, J.P., you getting on that?), we lost a key member of our staff. Oh, Keith was great on economic issues, and a significant contributor to the book, and always good for a batch of brownies when we had bake…
As an Extra Innings subscriber, I get this promotional magazine every few months from DirecTV. The content isn’t anything to write home about, but I do leaf through the thing when it arrives.
The latest edition arrived at my house last week, and inside it was a baseball season preview. Six national writers, all of whom you’d recognize, provided their top five teams and answered an assortment of other questions about the upcoming season. What surprised me was that four of them picked the Cardinals as the best NL team, and five of them picked the Redbirds to go to the World Series.
Spring training transactions recap for the past week
As an Extra Innings subscriber, I get this promotional magazine every few months from DirecTV. The content isn’t anything to write home about, but I do leaf through the thing when it arrives. The latest edition arrived at my house last week, and inside it was a baseball season preview. Six national writers, all of…
Yesterday’s column about rookies wasn’t up two minutes when I got my first e-mail about it. The note was polite, informative, and caused me to bang my head quite violently upon my desk.
I’d left out Hank Blalock.