I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark.

After having to pivot on my postseason travel plans I ended up with a Standing Room ticket for Saturday afternoon’s tilt between the NL Central’s Cubs and Brewers, but unlike 87% of the local writers. bloggers and general know it all’s, I’ve actually attended over 50 games from the seats at Miller/AmFam and have a…

I’m of the age and at the point in my sports fandom where I’m always associating current players with the athletes of my youth and it doesn’t start with the comps on Baseball Reference. That’s why when the Cleveland Browns named their Week 5 starting quarterback, I didn’t do any research or check out his…

Forget the fact that the Cubs and Brewers have a history and that the Cubs edged the Crew in their season series 7-6, as the Brewers won the division. Both team and managers know each other like brothers, even more than Ben Johnson thought he knew the Lions offense. People without a horse in the…

Rather than relying on social media, I have to wonder who the fans are blaming for each of the remaining teams’ losses in the Wild Card round. After all each of the teams has lost a game. And from what I’ve seen, each manager isn’t without fault and may be culpable for his team’s failures.…

Day one of the wild card series is in the books and I’ve already forgotten about the NFL. The Cubs won their first postseason game since 2017 or so I’ve been told. After watching most of the first two games and some of the third game, I can’t say I was wowed by any of…

Of the twelve teams playing in MLB’s postseason, three have never won the whole enchilada. Of the three, the Padres have the most difficult path as they have to get through the Cubs and the Wildcard round before facing fellow 1969 expansion team, Milwaukee. Of the three, only the Mariners have never appeared in a…

Even with expanded playoffs and divisions with no boundaries, the 2025 postseason opens with some traditional rivalries. The Red Sox visit the Yankees for a best of three series in NYC, the Reds head to L.A to renew an NL West rivalry. Closer to home the Tigers face Cleveland at Progressive and the Padres are…

There are those in the local media, and some busybody Cub fans that are selling the Cubs high on the playoffs, but I’m not buying. I usually tire of guys playing the fool and that includes professional athletes and not just fifth grade boys who make fools of themselves. When you are trending in the…

As luck would have it, the holiday coincidentally falls with 6 games left in the current baseball season and if I can work it right, I’ll figure someway to obsess over postseason roster construction for all of the potential participants. I’d like to think that I could assemble a few of my baseball friends or…