Baseball Is Life: Split Ends
Everyone describes this team as in the process of "rebuilding." Well, yes, but-- how? We see management ditching payroll and trolling the tragically friendzoned. What's the plan?
Baseball Is Life: All That Was Once Good, Part II
Part I of this post is here. Thanks for reading.
The Field of Dreams Game was a letter-perfect expression of the current state of the MLB. Although it provided us with nine precious innings reminding us of a... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: The Full Circle
We have seen Joey Votto in both of these positions: A man fighting gravity and the very cells of his very body. A man battling back from injury. But if you have been watching Joey Votto at all, there is zero mystery in how he will accomplish this.
Baseball Is Life: All That Was Once Good, Part I
Hollywood had to make the corn grow. The shooting schedule of Field of Dreams was driven by Iowa's agricultural cycle, and the production had just a few weeks to capitalize on the stalks of high summer. But tha... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Do You Take That Deal?
They've finally done it, haven't they-- the neighbor of Great American Ball Park, Paul Brown Stadium, has up and sold out.
How many of you are going to continue to refer to it as Paul Brown Stadium? Or do wh... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Baked In
We needed to keep track of the Reds game to know when the Friday Night Fireworks would begin, and there's no cable or MLB Live in this apartment. So I handed my twelve-year-old nephew the transistor radio I kee... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Uniformity
I'm sure you heard about last month's Tampa Bay Rays uniform kerfuffle, which I'm staying out of except to opine that this would have been a much bigger deal if teams weren't changing uniforms every 17 seconds ... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: A Shot in the Arm
I was gone over the past few days, and yet I left the apartment exactly once, only to return an hour later. I'd undergone a medical procedure that was best performed without an IV, and so I was placed in what t... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: What Are We Going to Tell The Children?
Even in these dark days. it's important for us to focus on what the Reds do have to offer-- if even in the form of their opponents. My mother completely overawed my godson when she told him that she'd once seen... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: The Nation’s Front Lawn
I send you ice cream shop greetings from the glorious rocky middle of absolutely nowhere, which is also the site of a blood battle for workable WiFi. I am, as you have likely guessed, at a National Park in July... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: What We Can Learn From Maverick
"Maverick" is outstripping some MLB attendance. What's Tom Cruise-- couch jumper, wife auditioner-- doing correctly that America's game isn't?
Baseball Is Life: When Even the Baseballs Live Their Best Lives
Sometimes your home ballpark may not be the best, but it's the one that knows you best, and that sometimes makes it the best.