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Happy ____ Anniversary!
Parade Magazine has started with the commemorating, in this case 1973. While I won’t worry about their particular take on the year, I do like to guess what different ML teams will be doing to recognize teams and players this year. Fifty years ago, the Oakland A’s were in the middle of their 3-year dynasty…
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Happy New Year!!
Wishing everyone and your families a Happy, Healthy and Safe 2023 with lots of baseball. Thanks for visiting!
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Other stories close by
The obvious choices for the Cardinals would be Paul Goldschmidt finally winning an MVP but falling short in each of the triple crown prongs. Some people think their ever-changing rookie class is a big deal or their mini-playoff excursion. The most compelling story in St. Louis always was the finales for Albert Pujols and Yadier…
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The biggest stories on local scene in 2022
Of course, what follows is only my opinion and isn’t jaded towards popular sentiment. However, what may appear as critical, is just a reflection on the Cubs and Sox failures during the past season, or rather falling short of expectations. No Sox fan went into the 2022 season thinking Tony LaRussa would prove to be…
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Coupled with the rules changes
The big news out of MLB is the retirement of 10 MLB umpires not named Angel Hernandez. Everyone is upset with this news. Lost in the Hernandez component is that the league will have to get used to 10 new umpires. You don’t read too much about umps until they make horrible mistakes or when…
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Taxes and that other thing we can’t escape
Even if you are under a self-imposed media blockade, you can’t avoid the various and several necrologies. With a little more than a day left in 2022, every industry is publishing the noteworthy and newsworthy figures that have passed this year. Wherever your particular interests lay, you’ve probably missed some important figures passing. Newspapers, the…
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We lost another giant
Losing soccer great Pele right after a terrific World Cup seems almost fitting. During the entire run of the tournament, Pele was constantly remembered and not just because he was in poor health. He is that important to soccer and international sports. The torch seems to have passed and he never seemed to mind that…
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A college football conundrum
Sports is all about the money and how much money any individual game can generate. That’s fine and not worth getting angry about. Entertainment as we know it is about the money too. It’s really not about the art-television, movies, theater etc. Forget about legalized sports betting for a minute or two. The once marvelous…
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Pizza and baseball
This isn’t a Geroge Carlin riff or anything philosophical, but rather how the pursuit of both is similar. I’d argue that enjoying a pizza in a restaurant and seeing a baseball game in person are best enjoyed in the company of others. Dining out in general, is more of a social act. One friend, who…
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Everyone knows Dasher and Dancer…
One of the biggest stories of 2022 was the joint retirement of Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina. The two went out in a blaze of glory and deservedly so. They’ll likely enter Cooperstown in five years from now. Most everybody got the chance to wish them well, but it didn’t work out that way for…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 