Sprinting from the gate
I don’t know that my mom is superstitious per se, but she’ll make a comment or joke about maintaining her routine during a baseball or football game if the Mets or Notre Dame have been playing well. “I don’t want…
Cardinals
Another season done
Oy. So here we are, post-World Series. The Mets’ injuries caught up to them and, despite pushing the Cardinals to a seventh game, their season ended five wins short of where it should have. The way the Tigers played in…
Friday thoughts on the playoffs
Am I surprised at the Mets’ 2-0 series lead? Not really. I am, however, suprised at just about every other outcome in the Division Series so far. The one series at 1-1 was Tigers-Yankees? Wow. Oakland owned the Metrodome, then…
Division Series predictions
What a start to the postseason. Oakland-Minnesota starts off with a pair of Cy Young Award winners in left-handers Barry Zito and Johan Santana. That game starts in about 10 minutes, so I’m going to do my best to run…
Sox it to me
So my postseason predictions were dead on … until the end of each league’s championship series. So much for the Angels and Cardinals. I had picked the Cards in six, but we’re now at seven straight World Series losses by…
On to the postseason
I guess in my dreams, I’m a real baseball writer. Check that — I am a real baseball writer, in that I write about the sport here; plus I have written about it in a professional outlet regularly before, have…
Gambling
I knew there was a reason to let Kenny Rogers come to the All-Star Game. About 450 feet worth of reasons. Three batters, an ERA and WHIP of infinity. I notice that Derrek Lee is still in the game too….
Goodnight, Bambino
86 years in the making. Red Sox 3, Cardinals 0 Amazing. I always feel a twinge of remorse when the baseball season comes to an end. No matter who’s playing, I always try to catch the last out — or,…
World Series Game 3: Why not?
Red Sox 4, Cardinals 1 First and foremost, I just have to thank God for the opportunity to write this blog. Why not them? I have to say, having not been a part of all the Red Sox fans’ heartaches…