While obviously the coronavirus has wrecked havoc on lives, both with illness and death and the loss of employment or financial wherewithal, it’s also done a really big number on the traditions we hold dear. Honestly, one of the reasons we all have trouble knowing what day (month?) it is is because of these markers, [...]
42 might be the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but it’s sure not the answer to our withdrawal from baseball. The drought continues apace. If you’ve listened at all to Gateway to Baseball Heaven or you follow my co-host Tara Wellman on any sort of social media, you know about the conflict between [...]
Much like Ben Brainard keeps adding states to the roundtable, so too does MLB keep adding states to their return plan. Monday, CBS writer R.J. Anderson reported that, along with Arizona and Florida, baseball might be played in Texas as well. There were no details about how it might work, but the teams would use [...]
I’ve already told you that we may have to get creative with some of these posts. Which is fine, because nobody is actually reading this stuff anyway. (Given the lack of baseball, it’s probably not surprising that both blog stats and podcast downloads are in the tank.) Occasionally, I may have to dip into the [...]
It has been 1,114 days since the beginning of the 2017 Major League Baseball season. Alex Reyes has pitched in a MLB game five times in that span. It’s been an extremely rough road for the phenom, who was ranked as the top prospect in baseball on some lists before he got his call up [...]
What are you doing when 7:00 PM Central rolls around? For some folks, I realize that it’s difficult to separate the days from each other, much less the hours. If all you do is stay home, it really doesn’t matter what the clock says. However, for others you may have a fairly regular routine going. [...]
Here we are, finishing up five weeks of true disruption of the national economy. Here, schools closed in mid-March, with Friday the 13th being the last time my kids stepped into their building. While the return date got pushed back a couple of times, eventually last week the order came to keep them closed for [...]
Yesterday, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich wrote an article for The Athletic saying that MLB owners may be looking to cut players salaries for the 2020 season. From my reading, it’s not a question of paying players for games that don’t happen–they’ve agreed that’s not going to happen–but more cutting salaries for games that do, [...]
If you are A) a Star Wars fan or B) been around me for any length of time, you know that, in The Empire Strikes Back, C-3PO tells Han Solo that the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to one. Right now, if it’s between getting through an asteroid field or getting [...]
April 15 is a mile marker for baseball and for me. Usually for me, it’s the last day of tax season. There’s a palpable relief when 5:00 rolls around and things get wrapped up. The long hours are past and we can breathe a little more. This year, of course, tax season is going to [...]
One of the few silver linings in this whole mess? The regular state roundtables provided by Ben Brainard on Twitter. (Thanks to my good friend Tara Wellman for pointing this out.) I continue to watch them over and over, because they stay funny even on repeated viewings. Here’s yesterday’s, but I suggest you go find [...]
One day closer to baseball! The problem is, that rings a bit hollow when we don’t know when that baseball will be. With some of the projections this weekend indicating a second wave might come if the current guidelines are relaxed after April 30, there seems to be a long time still before we hear [...]
