The Winning Run

01/08/2025

2 Reds games in 1 week. Tuesday vs. the Dodgers and Thursday vs. the Braves. Never a bad day to watch baseball.

09/07/2025

First baseball game in Quebec. Excited to watch the . Thanks for making baseball a priority on vacation.

21/04/2025

Ballpark: Baseball in the American City. How baseball went from the field to the modern cathedral.

There are parts of baseball everyone fails to appreciate. This applies to the players, owners, and fans. One of the most commonly overlooked aspects of baseball is the physical ballpark in which th…

09/04/2025

A little late, but here are our 2025 predictions. Odds are we are way off.

The 2025 MLB season is almost two weeks old. Yes our predictions are late, but sometimes life gets busy. Our predictions were made based on our thoughts before the season began. We are already regr…

04/04/2025

We were not much better than the White Sox last year. Our predictions that did not come true in 2024.

Before every season we try to predict what will happen and every season we are wrong. In 2024, we took being wrong to an entirely different level. We were as good as the White Sox. Perhaps we shoul…

31/03/2025

Back to Baseball

Opening Day has come and gone. The pomp and circumstance has begun to fade into the memory. The cleanup along the parade route has been completed in Cincinnati. The Dodgers have received their ring…

28/02/2025

The Robots Have Arrived

The robot take over has begun…sort of. The ABS (Automatic Ball-Strike) system is finally getting a trial in Major League Spring Training. It has worked its way through the Minors and has finally re…

29/01/2025

Missed The Ballot. Plenty of great players never appear on the Hall of Fame ballot. This year was no different.

The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot had 28 candidates. There were 14 returning candidates and 14 new candidates this year. Voters can select up to 10 players for induction on their ballot. Billy…

04/12/2024

United States of Baseball- Virginia. The Old Dominion has given baseball so many great players, including Justin Verlander and David Wright.

Virginia has served as the home of numerous Minor League Baseball teams throughout the state. Since the beginning of professional baseball, the Old Dominion has served the game at every level. As s…

14/11/2024

Speed or Bust? Elly De La Cruz has the tools to chase Rickey Henderson...if he can get on base.

Rickey Henderson’s career Stolen Base record is nearly impossible to break. If a player averaged 50 Stolen Bases for 25 seasons, they would still be 156 short of equaling the record. Reaching the M…

07/11/2024

Lost to Greed. Money has forced the Athletics to move yet again.

The Sad End of a Sorry Episode ~ Bart Giamatti Commissioner Bart Giamatti was speaking about Pete Rose’s lifetime ban from baseball for gambling. He could have been speaking about the Athletics lea…

04/11/2024

The Darkness at the End. The end of another baseball season.

The end of the baseball season is abrupt. It is jarring as I have either umpired or watched a game everyday since the first week of February. I umpired my final game of the season this week, 275 da…