I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark.

Because I eat, drink and sleep baseball, I guess I’m supposed to love free baseball on Marquis regardless of the circumstances. After the goofy series in Japan and return to Arizona for fake games, I’m not as into the faux exhibition games with the Braves at Mesa. I get that the Cubs can’t fly east…

From some crazy reason I was checking out one of my favorite non-Cubs teams of all time, the 1979 Pirates. It might have been because I had to check out Burt Blyleven’s numbers for that season. I noted that two relievers, Kent Tekulve (134.1) and Enrique Romo(129.1) exceeded 125 innings in relief. Grant Jackson only…

Because I’m neither emotionally involved nor especially confident in my pick to win it all, I’m not all that sorry that none of my upsets came through for me. My pick to win is still alive and three of my final four picks are still dancing, but my overall hopes were dashed when none of…

My friend, Steve Comma (short for the Sox fan) has had to listen to my gripes about how writers randomly select the former teams they cite when a player is released, traded, or tossed in the recycling bin. 112% of the time, a player’s former team never posts about the move unless, that team was…

Without taking a survey of participants, I’m going to generalize and say there are two distinct groups of people participating in March Madness brackets. The first group is made up of hoop fans who believe they have expertise whether we actually watch as many regular season games as we once did. Some of us follow…

Had I not been working on the 18th and 19th, I probably would have consumed both games in their entirety. I’m not a fan of the Cubs radio crew calling the games off TV monitors from Wrigley Field, but I loved the 4/5 a.m. first pitches. I love early morning baseball games and despite the…

It’s not a matter of what happened in Tokyo staying in Tokyo or the specifics of either game played between the Cubs and Dodgers mattering to me. And unless the Cubs lose a key player to a significant injury, I won’t be upset if they lose a second game tomorrow. I’m still bothered that MLB…

Believe it or not, I’m not complaining because my school failed to make the BigDance. They are completely undeserving. A 19-14 record stinks and I have no idea what their record in quad one games was. But does anyone else think something is fishy when UNC makes the field as a Dayton play-in team and…

Despite spending two decades with a band of gypsies, I swear I don’t possess any supernatural powers, nor do I believe in conventional baseball jinxes. Talking about an in-progress no-hitter isn’t why the guy falls short. I do believe that some guys are doomed though. A couple baseball loving friends have to deal with my…

In less than 8 hours the field of 68 will be set and fans of 8 schools will be making plans for Dayton. For those teams, it’s a one and done. Since the tournament expanded to the first four, I don’t know anyone that’s made the trip to Dayton. As is the case every March,…