Fan(atical) Behavior

Dear Fans: stop being jerks and clowns at games. You’re embarrassing everyone.

“Pros And Cons” Warned Us About Crime and Sports

Over the past few months, I have listened and watched how people react to news stories, and then over-react to levels that becomes irrational. Time and again, society treats sports and entertainment like a domestic ecstasy. It’s a perfect world outside of the real world we live in, which is broken, insane, and imperfect. And once…

Baseball Bloviation

Every year, it’s the same thing. The Baseball Hall of Fame. Who gets elected and inducted into the hall in July. Should be a simple thing, right? Not according to the fools who continue to make this election process a long-running sham filled with controversy, stupid rationales, and pure unadulterated spite. Let’s clear a few…

Opening Day

  It doesn’t feel right at all this morning to be thinking of Opening Day. It’s Thursday for crying out loud! Baseball’s Opening Day was reserved for the first Monday in April.  The traditional first game in Cincinnati, the ceremonial first pitch by the President in Washington, and the Cubs and the Mets being “mathematically…

“The Boss” of New York: George Steinbrenner (1930-2010)

I hate the Yankees.  I never liked them.  They have 27 World Series titles, broke the hearts of the Boston Red Sox, and are the most recognizable sports team in the world.  I couldn’t stand how George Steinbrenner, the irascible, pompous, free-wheeling owner of the Yankees would write a carte blanche check and bring in…