December 2, 2021
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Henry Aaron represented two things throughout his long baseball career and longer life – excellence and dignity. Dignity is a word that is not thrown around much these days. Loud and flashy athletes are everywhere, and national media loves devoting time to them. We had a guy here in Indianapolis until recently who wanted to […]
“Do you see my ring? I’m a Hall of Famer baseball person. I’m legit. I’m a Hall of Famer, brother. You’re trying to embarrass me.” Tony La Russa, February 24, 2020 Driving drunk is stupid and irresponsible, but big-timing a police officer is loathsome for a guy like Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa. The […]
No matter how successful we become, those moments of disappointment when we were unjustly spurned by an employer nest forever in our psyches. They might crush or motivate us, but they will always be there, and the opportunity to prove management wrong will remain difficult to resist. Such is the case with Hall of Fame manager Tony […]
There is an old saying in broadcasting – “Treat every microphone like a live microphone!” Managers remind hosts of that multiple times everyday, and anyone who gets paid to speak into a microphone repeats it often. Cincinnati Reds play-by-play voice Thom Brennaman forgot that basic rule last night. About some city, Brennaman said, “one of the f*g […]
Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly is now my favorite baseball player – ever. It’s not because he threw at members of the Houston Astros as retaliation for cheating the game during the 2017 season – a year they won the World Series – but because he laid out the reasons for his actions so strongly while […]
It’s time to take back our game. Baseball has dicked around long enough with our hearts. When baseball resumes, keep your money in your pockets. Hold baseball owners and players accountable for their indifference to you by refusing to line their pockets with your cash. For the history of our national pastime, owners have assumed […]