Baseball Is Life: You Don’t Know

Josh The Pilot is a car racing fan, and as a car racing fan, he watches things that make vrooming noises clearly audible in all areas of the apartment. I am a gem about this, for I used to live in Daytona Beach... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Retraction

Last week I wrote this column about baseball and soccer at the national level and then one message later wished I hadn't: Bar some sad exceptions, football clubs in Europe are that, clubs, meaning they are... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: India Summer

The Jonathan India trade might be more significant than we realize. It doesn't just infuse a righty into a rotation that can always use infusing. It signals a potential shift in how the Reds view personnel-buil... Read More...

Baseball is Life: We Need Contact

This isn't the sort of thing we introverts tend to admit very often, but... we human beings need other human beings. That fact was driven home for the first time to many during COVID. I viewed it all with de... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: They’ve Got to Go

While we're dragging managers out of retirement, melting bridges, and in general lighting everything on fire, I might as well throw in suggestions for an industry-wide deletion of baseball terms that tend to dr... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: The Interregnum

It's not just the off-season. It's the interregnum. The Church of Baseball conducts these periods in a fluster of confusion and rumors. In this, it is wise to take inspiration from us Catholics. Over the pas... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: I Question the Timing

If you thought the 2024 Reds were going to slink quietly back to their Ferraris, sons and daughters, you've got it all wrong. Team manager David Bell was fired this weekend, and the report was kind of like f... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: The Nexus

It wasn't just my entire heritage spread on the living room floor over the past three months. My whole career was at hand and accounted for. The problem is that I'm a writer, I started writing early, and my ... Read More...