On Wednesday afternoon, my favorite moment of the baseball off-season will occur: the announcement of the Class of 2016, the new inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. After two terrific classes of Hall of Famers (seven deserving players elected in the past two years), this year’s class will likely be smaller, […]
Should the BBWAA vote for Bonds and Clemens for the Hall of Fame? I wrote about this a year ago: this is an updated version of the same post, call it a 2nd Edition. I’ll answer the question here up front: NO. If I were a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), I […]
It’s less than four weeks until the results are announced for the class of 2016 for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Two new center fielders are on ballot for the first time, Ken Griffey Jr. and Jim Edmonds. This article will not be about Junior Griffey. He will be a 95% or better vote-getter in his debut on […]
Who won the debate Tuesday night, the last one in 2015 for the Republicans vying for their party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States? With a heavy emphasis in the debate on fighting terrorism and foreign policy, here’s my quick ranking of the performance of the nine participants in the main […]
(updated December 12, 2016) On October 1, 2007, I was sitting in the sports book at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas with a great friend of mine, John Zentner. We were watching two games: Monday Night Football (in which the Patriots beat the Bengals en route to their perfect 16-0 regular season) and the […]
Can Donald Trump actually win the GOP nomination for President? Would he be a good president? And, having now observed him as a front-runner for months, I’ll ask the question, should he be the nominee if you’re a Republican who wants your party to re-take the White House? To question number one, the answer is […]
Yesterday, on his 40th birthday, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz announced that he will retire at the end of the 2016 season, bringing to a close the most consequential career in the history of the team since Babe Ruth. Although Hall of Famers like Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Williams, Wade Boggs, and Pedro Martinez had greater overall […]
What a difference 13 days makes. After a debate two weeks ago that pitted the Republican presidential candidates against the CNBC moderators, eight of the GOP contenders tonight had a debate where they actually debated each other rather than the folks at Fox Business Network (FBN) who were asking the questions. We all knew going […]
For a disinterested baseball fan, without a rooting interest of either team, the 2015 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets was about as good as you could get for a 5-game series: two extra inning games and three games that turned in the final two innings. For me personally, as […]
Hello friends, I just finished watching the CNBC Republican debate. This wasn’t a great night of TV watching for me. First, I “enjoyed” watching my New York Mets get thrashed by the Kansas City Royals in Game 2 of the World Series. Then, as soon as that wipe-out was mercifully over, I got to “enjoy” […]