I wrote half a post about the sudden rash of injuries heading into Opening Day. I wrote half of another post complaining about Bud Selig ruining Opening Day. But I dumped them both yesterday morning because I was in Chicago on business and I decided that Opening Day is no time for negativity.  The Cubs  [ Read More ]

I am at the beach this week with my wife’s family and, last night we engaged in a rousing game of Balderdash.  Balderdash is a game where players create fake definitions or biographies for obscure words or people and then try to guess which definitions are fake and which are real. Apparently, I am terrible  [ Read More ]

When I started this blog last season, I added the section of posts you see above titled Questions from the Mrs.  Back then, my lovely wife watched every game with me and, almost without fail, asked me one insightful question about the game per night in her continuing desire to know more about baseball.  Perfect  [ Read More ]

Yesterday, the Mrs. and I spent a fall afternoon in the new-Big Sombrero.  We had plenty of room to stretch out.  With all the television blackouts, I really had no idea how close the Bucs came to selling out their first 5 home games(including both pre-season games).  On Sunday, they weren’t close at all. Based  [ Read More ]

My wife, god bless her soul, was a baseball fan before she met me.  Her father was one of the Marlins’ original season-ticket holders and my wife was the only one of his three children that loved to make the one-hour drive down to Miami to see Chucky Carr patrol centerfield for the expansion-Fish.  (Luckily,  [ Read More ]