14 Years

The National League won last night’s All-Star Game for the first time in 14 years. How much time is that? Since that happened: The US has had four Presidential elections. There have been seven Winter and Summer Olympics. I went back to and completed college. Jason Schmidt was a young pitcher about to be traded [...]

OK, Wake ‘Em Up Already

Getting swept by the Astros was not exactly what I had in mind after my last post. Same story as the rest of the season, just not enough offense to win, even when the pitching is decent to good. Now they go back to Milwaukee for the final series before the break. Scheduled Pitchers: Maholm, [...]

All-Star Roster Redux

I hope everyone had a great Independence Day weekend. I was off celebrating and recovering from running in the Peachtree Road Race but couldn’t not have a third post to complete my All-Star Game roster trilogy. If you want to read some professional and expert-amateur opinions on the rosters you can check these links. Background [...]

Obligatory AL All-Star article

This is part II of my All-Star article. For the NL click here. The All-Star game is in less than two weeks and in accordance with the triplicate-signed-in-blood contract I signed when I started writing about baseball, that means I am required to make public my opinions of who should be or who will be [...]

Obligatory NL All-Star article

This is part I of my All-Star article. For the AL click here. The All-Star game is in less than two weeks and in accordance with the triplicate-signed-in-blood contract I signed when I started writing about baseball, that means I am required to make public my opinions of who should be or who will be [...]