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.
Baseball Is Life: Paid to Play
I am at a professional conference, which means I'm a Real Grown Up now. Real Grown Ups travel for non-fun reasons and stay in giant hotel complexes with many ballrooms where no one ever dances. What makes this ... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Things We Miss
What are the things in baseball that we miss? That we wish could come back? The nostalgia is real in this great sport.
Baseball Is Life: Losing is Soothing
Baseball is embedded into us, and even with your team losing way more frequently than you'd like, at some point the losing is soothing.
Baseball Is Life: Votto Still on the Gram
Last month, I noted that Joey Votto had made the decision to present himself on social media in the form of Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. ("Aren't you a little old for TikTok?" the 25-year-old Bengals quarter... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: As Part of the Experience
I’m always fascinated about what the rest of the world has to stay about the United States when they think we’re not listening. From Top Gear/The Grand Tour, for example, I learned that we’re called “America” r... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: The Importance of the Loser
I try to be an optimist, so let's consider the good part of losing: In sports, somebody has to lose. After all, when the Reds lose, the other team is happy, right? Their fans are happy, right? At least somebody... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: You Think You Know
It doesn't matter whether or not you're on social media. You're there, and pretty much every single person there knows all about you, including what you believe and why. You don't have to ask what they think ab... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Where We’re Going
He told us where to go, and so we did; this weekend, as the Reds were in the process of losing to the Cardinals, the sun shone upon the winners and the losers alike and the city came out to play in our side ya... Read More...
Baseball Is Life: Votto On the Gram
Before the chicken-dancing, there came the betrayal.
Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suarez were traded March 14. Joey Votto appeared on social media on March 22, and the Reds were more than happy to tell you all a... Read More...
Baseball is Life: Happy Opening Day, Peasants
Look, weird stuff happens. Sometimes happily weird stuff happens. Like surprise baby hippopotamuses:
https://twitter.com/Mary_Beth_Ellis/status/1514080176904224768
Why not an out-of-nowhere Reds champions... Read More...