The Boston Red Sox were officially aka mathematically eliminated from the 2024 MLB Playoffs this week. A loss to the rival Toronto Blue Jays on September 25th sealed their fate. In that fateful game, the BoSox left 8 runners on … Continue reading When Runners Are Left On Base, They Tend Not to Score
The 2024 Major League Baseball Draft took place this week. This year’s MLB draft consisted of 20 rounds of selecting high school, Junior College, and College eligible baseball players. The draft took place over several days, culminating with the final … Continue reading I Was Lucky Enough To See These Major League Baseball Draftees In Person
If you have been to a thousand baseball games, played in several hundred, coached nearly a hundred, watched baseball on TV religiously since you were in diapers, and written about baseball for nearly 5 decades – would you consider yourself … Continue reading The Live Action, In Game Baseball Interview – A Fan’s Reaction
A few months prior to the Spring Training period of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, I took a long walk on the beach and dreamed up a series of bold predictions for the upcoming season. To date, I do … Continue reading Halfway Through The 2024 MLB Season, I Review My 2024 Baseball Predictions
Whether I am home or on the road traveling for work, time permitting, I always enjoy a night/day out at a baseball game. I have attended baseball games at just about every level of competition from T-Ball to the Major … Continue reading Hit The Gas Or Pump The Brakes – A Fan’s View Of Baseball’s Automated Ball And Strike System
Are you playing high school baseball in some “one horse town?” Don’t think you or your talents will ever get noticed by the state college or university baseball program you have pinned up on your bedroom walls? Worried you will … Continue reading In Case You Might Need Some Baseball Motivation, Here Comes Perachi
Here is a bold and honest statement from a long time Boston Red Sox fan, Don Mattingly should be in Cooperstown’s National Baseball Hall of Fame. There you heard it. I have been telling friends, co-workers, the stranger I sat next to … Continue reading Don Mattingly Should Be In The National Baseball Hall of Fame
Happy Sunday to everyone. This morning, while doing some research on baseball on military bases in the 1940s – 1960s, I came across a very interesting article. The article, published in the August 9, 1961 Quonset Scout newspaper, tells the military and … Continue reading Question Of The Day – Should Major League Baseball Change The 5 Innings = Win Rule
The 2023 NCAA Football Bowl Season has been fun to watch, right? College football teams with most if not all of their 2023 roster either opting out for the NFL Draft or transfer portal-ing to another team. Blowouts, lopsided wins, exaggerated stats … Continue reading I Am Officially Opting In To Salute A Historic Non-Opt Outer
If you watch sports on TV, your phone, your computer these days, you will most likely have seen the following. Former professional athletes joined at a desk or round table by one or two sports journalists, plus a few on TVs to the left and right of the screen at any given time. Their purpose – to predict the future and analyze the past and scrutinize the present and above all, entertain the sports fan on their sport of expertise. Could be football, could be basketball, could be a specific conference like the ACC or SEC, could be baseball. Whatever the sport, you can rest … Continue reading My Top 8 Professional Baseball Predictions for 2024
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