Archive for the ‘baseball’ Category

• The agony of defeat

  Saturday, September 4th, 2010

  Sports fan and players are a superstitious bunch and I am no exception. My team, the San Diego Padres, is in a world class slump. A loss of six straight games. They had only lost three straight games before this and it was a given that they would rally and win the fourth game by [...]

• The sound of spring

  Thursday, May 27th, 2010

  As I suffer through May gloom, the San Diego Padres are heating up the city by holding onto first place in their division. Now this is somewhat of a surprise since they can’t hit their way out of a wet paper bag. Or as well as I could if I used my cane to take [...]

• At least one bat isn’t working

  Thursday, May 7th, 2009

  Waking up this morning, I found out that the first place Dodgers have lost the services of the dread locked menace, Manny Ramirez, for fifty games due to using an unauthorized substance made me jump for joy. Don’t get me wrong. Manny seems like a great guy but he just happens to play for the [...]

• From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

  Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

  We all know that the sports world has hired some really poor excuses for human beings and teams have started to crack down on the bad behavior of it team members. But there has to be some common sense in the rules.   Baseball player Elijah Dukes of the Washington Nationals, who has documented cases [...]