I know I am being a little too Yankee-centric with this second post also being about the team, but I saw the first ad for the Ortiz call your shot promotion by State Farm and thought it was a brilliant idea for Ortiz.  At Yankee stadium, though… well… that’s another story.  Little did I know [...]

So, if you have read my blog for awhile, you know I love Pete Rose.  Sure, I think he isn’t a great man, and I think he made some terrible mistakes, the biggest of which was lying about all the other things he has done wrong.  I think, 20 years from now, we might be [...]

I was a little critical of Piazza’s retirement announcement earlier in the week, but a friend sent me this Jason Fry, WSJ article which really places Piazza in historical perspective.  My favorite memory will be the home run he hit to beat the Braves in the first game in New York after Sept. 11th.  I was [...]

So yesterday I had one of those rare days that we baseball fans cherish.  I had a double header.  No, not a true double header…. but one I created by finding a minor league game during the day and a night game not too far away.  The first game, The Connecticut Defenders hosting the Binghamton [...]

As I was browsing through the sports pages today, I found two different stories that I thought essentially were about the same thing, though with different responses and different approaches. As is easy to see, the defending National League Champion Rockies are struggling; pitching is their problem.   Troy E. Renck writes a column about GM [...]