Early in the season, I shared with you the important baseball tradition known as Cleting out, the process of abandoning a sporting event, live or otherwise, earlier than hoped for or expected. It is named for t... Read More...
The transferral of my entire childhood to YouTube and various streaming services means that I now have the ability to study, in all its pastel and neon glory, the television staples of the 80s and 90s. I will h... Read More...
Cincinnatians of a certain age grew up linking baseball with the center of the city. For those of us raised post-suburbia and post-multiuse stadium, a live baseball game was Of Downtown. You had to get on the i... Read More...
They had to talk me down from the ledge when some teacher explained that entire bodily systems—heart, digestion, even blinking—worked without me thinking about it. They’re background programs. I knew these thin... Read More...
I am having to aunt as I have never aunted before. My entire clutch of nephews has forsaken baseball for lacrosse. This now means that I have been yanked from the solid West Side ground of crunchy parish backya... Read More...