Tag: baseball musings

  • February 6 2001: It’s All Mental

    Absolutely every damn thing reminds me of baseball. It’s snowing like the proverbial “dickens” today, soggy, thick, and wet–it looks like there’s a man throwing lumps of wet chicken feathers off my roof. But that reminds me of throwing, and therefore baseball. I just baked chocolate chip cookies, which is a typical winter thing to…

  • May 18 2000: Baseball Time

    Time’s an important concept in baseball. There’s no clock running, the games run long or short, the season is long, the post-season is even longer. Baseball has been around for a long time. Injured players spend a set amount of time on the DL, batters call time to throw off a pitcher. It has been…