Old Time Family Baseball

Baseball’s back … kind of! Sure, the games don’t mean anything in the standings, but c’mon, how much does one game out of 162 really mean during the season, too? Honestly, that’s kind o...

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I know it’s not a unique story: Young teenager who, up until that point, hadn’t really thought of music – simply taking in whatever MTV happened to play or whatever 92.3 KROQ felt like play...

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“The Holiday” is on in the background as I write this. I hate “The Holiday.” But this year, the idea of going somewhere – anywhere – renting someone else’s house, meeting someone a...

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One of my favorite things to do during the offseason (beyond catching up on some movies, books, and – gasp – watch a few other sports, too. Sorry, Rogers Hornsby, but there’s just too much ...

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Sorry for the long break in between posts. (Or, if I’m in the mood to be particularly old-timey, “missives.”) Since I last was back here, we had an election … that, uh, is still somehow ...

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What happens when you accomplish your dreams, but it turns out more like a nightmare? How do you go on with your life when everything you worked for ended up turning out in the very worst way?  ...

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In a year of just absolute dreadfulness, the past few days have been a welcome relief. Obviously, I’m talking about the new Taylor Swift record. (OK, I’m joking. It’s mostly the new basebal...

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If you’ve been here for a while, you know whimsy and fun are my favorite part of sports. Sure, the moments where you think you’re going to throw up because you’re so tense, or that you want...

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I’ve seen some of the chatter online, that whoever wins the World Series this year will have a giant asterisk attached to it. I don’t want to hear about that, I have no patience for it.  S...

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In this space, I usually share a few jokes and link to some of the pieces I’ve worked on in other internet places.  But things aren’t so funny right now. And my voice is not one we need to ...

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Perhaps you have better things to do with your time than I do because in this world where time doesn’t exist and leaving the house is but a memory, I have been clicking around YouTube in the la...

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I tried. I really tried. I tried to watch the NFL Draft.  I’m a casual NFL fan. I love the Patriots (sorry – been that way ever since I was a young boy watching a terrible team in the ‘...

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I’ve become very good at playing pretend recently. I always thought that I was good at it, but I realize now I was merely pretending to, uh, pretend. I wasn’t fully embracing a reality of my ...

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I’ve been playing MLB: The Show 20 a lot. Like, a dangerous amount. Probably an unhealthy amount. But then again, what is one to do when we’re trapped inside, with our neighbors and friends h...

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Well, this isn’t how this was supposed to go. We were supposed to be wrapping up Spring Training in about a week. We were supposed to be emerging from our homes – wearing that one loose sweat...

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Did you think it was never going to happen? Did you think the winter would never end? Did you think you were doomed to an eternity without baseball, that the offseason would never end and basebal...

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RACE TO THE WORLD SERIES: THE GAME (Note: This first appeared in the now defunct Sports on Earth in 2013 and, unfortunately, disappeared from the web during a CMS update. Thanks to @NicoleCahil...

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I don’t know how it happened, but it has. The MLB free agent class is gone, save for Brock Holt – whose son is seemingly like Damien and is literally hellbent on injuring him every chance he ...

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Christmas is going to be difficult this year. My grandmother passed just before Thanksgiving and, naturally, because she’s a grandma, she was obsessed with Christmas. She mainlined Hallmark mov...

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(Art by Jeff Boyes / Gallery 1988)  Rogers Hornsby said, “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring....

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