A Southern Shortstop in Los Angeles
So the thing they couldn’t stop talking about during the All Star game (told you the game was boring!) finally happened yesterday: Manny Machado has become a Dodger. If you trust lameass Twitter, Justin Turner and Alex Wood are all excited about it. They look all spontaneous about it too. Real spontaneous. Ok, so first thing … Continue reading The Manny Machado Trade
So, yeah, I missed back home on July 4th. And I reckon not just for the Block Burgers. Watching the Dodger game on TV, I wished I’d gotten tickets to be there and see the team win and the fireworks afterwards. I know a Dodger Dog ain’t no Block Burger…but it does come with fireworks … Continue reading My July 4th in Pasadena
Dad had kept it a secret from me for over a month that his company was doing some kind of promotional work with the Tennessee Smokies and that he’d met some of the players. One of who was Sumter Henderson -- their shortstop. Dad told him that his son was serious about playing ball and … Continue reading Sumter Henderson (part 2)
So I started telling y'all about growing up a fan of the Tennessee Smokies and I guess I got all distracted with some of the stuff that was going down with Joyce. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to the Smokies...and one player in particular. Sumter Henderson was only with the Smokies … Continue reading Sumter Henderson
I’ve been writing a lot about Joyce and the iPhone, and have been forgetting my priorities, which are (in order) baseball bros beer blog banging I’m still waiting on a better B word for chicks. Open to suggestions here. So I thought I’d get back to baseball. No, not another piece about the mess the … Continue reading Sumter Henderson and the Tennessee Smokies
I don’t mean to leave y’all hanging about the iPhone and Joyce and the flourless chocolate cake, but something’s gotta be said about the Dodgers. And soon. What a mess. It’s not that Corey Seager was so brilliant and carrying the team this year. I already said how I thought that his performance (or lack … Continue reading The Dodgers are in Deep Doody
Tuesday night sucked for LA baseball…but it was a great night for softball. At least for the Pasadena Parrots. I reckon it sucked for the Kung Paos. That’s the score in the headline. 19 runs isn’t impossible in softball, but c’mon, it’s 19 runs. We f***in killed it. (Mom said it was ok for me … Continue reading Parrots 19, Kung Paos 2
Mom’s started reading my blog. She says she likes it and maybe they do teach you to write after all at Maryville High. Mom came for a visit in January and hated Monica on sight, so she really liked the Valentine’s Day report. Okay, she liked the strip club part less, and asked why I … Continue reading Introducing the Blocks
What I was going to write for Seager’s birthday tribute was that he’s the best shortstop I’ve seen play live (excepting when I saw Cal Ripken Jr. for two games of a double header when I was 8 and Dad and I drove up to Baltimore.) No wonder he was Rookie of the Year and … Continue reading Corey Seager: View from Short
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