Category: Baseball Musings
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June 10 2000: Asleep At The Wheel
So the weirdest thing happened to me today during the ninth inning of Game One of the Yankees/Mets Subway series. I fell asleep. I know, I can’t believe it either. I’m obsessed with baseball, it’s true. Just ask any friend or acquaintance who has had a conversation with me since October. I go around in…
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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…
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April 15 2000: Pre-Game Show – Arriving Early at Yankee Stadium
April 14th finally arrived, the day of my first pilgrimage this year to the national temple of baseball, Yankee Stadium. (I was tickled to hear Michael Kay call it “baseball’s cathedral” on the radio the other day–seems I’m not the only one who holds the House That Ruth Built in such regard.) Originally I had…
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April 11: Old Timers – Baseball, Nostalgia & Respect
So, Charles Krauthammer recently opined in a column for TIME Magazine that baseball is dying, at least partly because of its love for nostalgia, and how we fans, supposedly, look back on the past as brighter and better than the present or future. Of course, the real point of the essay seemed to be that…
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April 3 2000: Opening Day Thoughts
Here it is, my first Opening Day in years and years. Maybe it’s that baseball itself is so much more popular this year than it was during some of the doldrum years (the strike, etc…) or maybe it’s that I’m just so much more aware of it… or maybe it is both… but Baseball Is…
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Mar 28 2000: Comeback Dreams
Tom Pagnozzi announced his retirement today. About a week ago Tim Raines did the same. You may not know who both these guys are, but their stories are similar. Both were players who were sidelined by injury or illness last year (Raines by the immune system disease lupus, Pagnozzi by a shoulder injury that required…
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Mar 26 2000: Thoughts of Spring: Little League
Spring has come to Boston, and I don’t just mean the temperature got warm. We’ve had some 65 degree days here and there since February, but this weekend people really started taking it seriously. Or, maybe seriously isn’t the right word, because damn it looked like people were having fun. The first thing I noticed…
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Mar 24 2000: Autograph Hounding 101
Well, there’s one surefire way to get an autograph, and that’s to buy something pre-signed. But where’s the fun in that? The point is not to have the autograph, so much as to have the record of having been there, in the same place at the same time, as the player himself. That’s why people…
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Mar 19 2000: What To Tell Your Friends Who Think Baseball is Boring/Wimpy
Alright, if you’re one of those people who doesn’t understand baseball, who thinks it’s boring and nothing ever happens, here’s what you need to know if you’re ever kidnapped and forced to watch a game and would like to at least try to enjoy it. George Carlin aside, if what you need to get hooked…
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Mar 16 2000: Spring Training Day Four – Sarasota
After the game in Clearwater, we dropped Dad off at the airport and he went back to New Jersey (he’d already been on vacation when we met him, playing golf in Orlando, so we had to let him get back to work). That evening we were supposed to pick up corwin (my significant other) and…