I’ll be away from home for the next eight days. First stop: Oakland, California, to see the Red Sox and the A’s in three games. Then overnight on Amtrak’s Coast...
The attempt to manufacture excitement is an unfortunate trend in major league baseball. In big league ballparks, monstrous electronic scoreboards suddenly light up and instruct fans to MAKE NOISE!!!!! as...
Today is the day that pitchers and catchers report to the Red Sox spring training complex in Fort Myers, Florida. You’ll forgive me if today I digress from thoughts of...
Who started this idiotic idea of wearing baseball caps backwards, anyway? Kids, I suppose, because I guess to them it looks “cool”. You even see guys my age wearing caps...