I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark.

Full disclosure, I haven’t eaten a hotdog at a baseball game in over a decade, but that doesn’t mean I’m not paying attention to encased meats of all sorts. I don’t track the prices or all of the toppings, but I’ve noticed several things. Your basic steamed/boiled product should be the least expensive protein-based food…

At some point in yesterday’s Sox-Cardinals game, the local weather maven informed the masses that rain was in the forecast for later in the afternoon. I’m still unsure as to how we ever reached the point that the ensuing rain delay (3:03 minutes) would be almost as long as the game (3:12). For 97.8% of…

One would think I would have posted immediately about my one-day adventure in South Bend, but I had to figure what positives I could bring to what was a rather long slog of a game. Spoiler alert, what started out to be a close game never really resembled a good game, but I still had…

I know the White Sox swept the Rays over the weekend and are now 6-22 and that the Cubs lost a series in Boston and the Brewers lost 2/3 to the Yankees at home, but I’m focusing on my trip to South Bend. Sometime tomorrow, I’ll post about the game between the Cubs and Quad…

Stadium naming rights are both confusing and experience altering at the minor league level. Some fans and player only know the names of ballparks and stadiums by their contemporary corporate names. Since the Cubs have played in South Bend (2015), the ballpark has been known as Four Winds Field (a casino), but in small print,…

Amazingly, the Cubs made a number of big roster moves before the Astros came to Wrigley. While Kyle Hendricks’ future as a member of the 2024 Cubs, he was placed on the IL (along with Drew Smyly). I think Smyly’s “hip impingement” might be more legit than Hendricks’ lower back issues. Everyone was wondering what…

Due to the mechanics of the blog, I can’t always address and respond to each new subscriber. That isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate you’re jumping on board. Thank you very much and as you’ll notice, I tend to post more during the season when I can actually attend games. I’ve always welcomed and…

Word has it that Southpaw wants out and has phoned Ribbie and Roobarb in witness protection and is seeking mascot asylum. The 2024 White Sox are far worse than their 3-17 indicates, and three local sportswriters have taken to finally talking about it. The guy charged with covering the team on a daily basis wrote…

Without wallowing in melancholy, I like to look back at milestone anniversaries and add a little of my own context. Fifty years ago, the Cubs abandoned the old and trotted out a bunch of relative nobodies. At the time, we didn’t realize that the advent of free agency would transform professional sports and how we…

I guess most fans would say that teams don’t owe their fans anything more than putting a quality product on the field. But we all know professional teams do more than the bare minimum to entertain and reward their fans. Some might suggest there is a minimum standard. Other than changing their bag policy with…