All eyes of the baseball world are on Cooperstown, New York tonight as the announcement for the inductees of the class of 2023 will be broadcast live on MLB Network, an event newsworthy enough to remind millions the network hasn’t turned into an offshot of AMC or a genre movie channel in the Starz family, … Read more
Our intrepid colleague from Chicago unearthed this little nugget yesterday from the Associated Press that caught my attention because, once again, this involves a former colleague of mine: Major League Baseball hired a high-ranking executive from the Sinclair Broadcast Group as the sport deals with concern over the future of regional sports networks in an … Read more
When last we left sweet Veruka Salt, that demanding little waif from Willy Wonka land who, in our DOT world, asked her Daddy, and Mets’ fans Uncle Stevie Cohen, to buy her Carlos Correa (rather than the North Korea she demanded in the movie), her request was well on the way to being honored. On … Read more
It’s not often that someone reacts strongly enough to what’s written here that they’re motivated to personally reach out, intelligently present a conflicting opinion, and then offer to buy you lunch in order to provide more detail as to why they so passionately believe I’m a dope. But that’s exactly what happened earlier this week … Read more
In 2020 the Winter Meetings were canceled due to COVID-19. Last year it was looking very possible that we’d see another shortened baseball season for the third time in less than 30 years. Before the 2021 season Fernando Tatis Jr. signed a fourteen year “Bobby Bonilla”-esc contract with the San Diego Padres, thanks to the … Read more
In a year where we’ve seen so much loss of life, love and prosperity, it was a poignant but nonetheless fitting coda to lose the great Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pele, this earlier this week. Throughout not only the soccer-loving world, but in the world in general, especially among those who spoke Portuguese or … Read more
In an off-season where its emerging arch-rival and playoff conqueror in San Diego invested $280 million in their third potential shortstop (with one already moved to third base and the steroid abusing incumbent moving to the outfield), the biggest moves they made was the signing of the arm that shut them down in the 2015 … Read more
For as crappy a year as 2022 has been for me on many levels, 2021 was a year of awakening and firsts. One of the most enjoyable firsts I was able to experience was being in and “producing” my first Tik Tok video, with the required and expert assistance of my longtime friend’s teenage daughter, … Read more
I’m really, really heartbroken today, and I have absolutely no legitimate reason to be. As you can see, my “dog” isn’t real, and therefore he didn’t actually run away. Nor did his namesake. We should be happy for Chris Bassitt, who is departing the Mets for a three-year free agency deal with the Toronto Blue … Read more
For half a century, the words Yankees and Steinbrenner have been synonymous. When patriach George, a Cleveland shipping magnate whose only previous pro sports experience was a short-lived failed venture with the hometown Pipers of the American Basketball League, led a group that rescued the fabled franchise from the corporate largesse of CBS, it began … Read more