I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark.

It’s easier to find a Gonzalo Marquez fan club, than a more passionate (former fan) chronicler of Oakland A’s woes than the brains and sense of humor behind Coco Crisp’s Afro, an amazing blog. cococrispafro.wordpress.com The most recent post led me to Last Dive Bar and for those not following the folly that is the A’s move to…

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I wasn’t able to pursue baseball in its purest form last year and I’m hoping to get back on the old horse this year. After all, the premise of the blog is that I’d rather be sitting in a ballpark, no matter what the commissioner does to irk me…

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Over the next couple of days, every newspaper (remember them), specialty website and most industries will have shared their necrology list for 2023. And if you’re like me, there are certain passings from early in the year that I will have forgotten about. A couple of days ago mlb.com ran theirs with an accompanying 5-minute video. I…

Forget the recent Braves World Series Championship for a moment. The team has been relevant since the Hank Aaron days with invisibility for almost a decade and then relevance since the 90’s. The 7-8 Falcons come to Chicago to play the 6-9 Bears on Sunday and it got me to thinking how the Winter teams in…

One need not dig too deeply these days to find connections between ML players. Guys move around from team to team (sometimes so quickly they never suit up for the team) that nobody can keep track. I’m sure someone in the media will pretend they saw the Chris Sale to the Braves trade coming, but…

When Arizona beat the Yankees in 2001, they ended the Yanks brief streak at three titles (98-2000), but pretty much every team since then believed they’d repeat as WS champion. The closest anyone came was the Giants who won in 2010, 12, and 14. While fans of the teams that have won World Series rings in…

Since my attendance at ballgames paled in comparison to years past and a couple friends, it’s not worth sharing my favorite memories from the past seasons, ML and minor league. And unless someone from my baseball past passes away before Monday morning, this will be the last reflection on 1973. While skimming through some of the…

With the Bears currently sitting at 6-9, it’s difficult for everyone in town not to connect the dots with Fields’ future and the Bears last two games.  Since the Bears drafted Fields out of Ohio State in the 1st round of the draft, everyone in town has had a hard time making heads or tails…

Maybe it’s just a matter of semantics, but the term generational talent befuddles me. I understand both the denotation and connotation, but I’m confused by the overuse. I also get that it’s not an overt superlative, but I think the media implies a one of a generation talent. Because there is no minor football league, first round…