Announcement: I like it. I tend to see Strat everywhere too. Kind of like the movie Sixth Sense. https://t.co/EFcyW7CWKH Updated: Thu Mar 23 02:24:40 +0000 2023
Announcement: Ha! What is going on here? Have I been GIFFed? Good days. Miss you both!! https://t.co/S1mJNrLOm7 Updated: Wed Mar 22 18:51:00 +0000 2023
Announcement: Could have at least rounded up to 2000s to make me feel younger. 😉 https://t.co/tZWdeDeRqP Updated: Wed Mar 22 02:50:10 +0000 2023
Announcement: Has to be illegal.
100 mph
100 mph
102 mph
Slider of death.
Only adjective. Ohtanic.
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Announcement: RT @jaysonst: “When I look back, I was chosen to be in this situation. And maybe it’s best that I didn't win as much as I wanted to win, be… Updated: Mon Mar 20 21:01:12 +0000 2023
Announcement: Thanks so much, Zachary. I am so grateful for my students and have seen tremendous benefit from sharing diverse con… https://t.co/D28VOzr1lX Updated: Mon Mar 20 20:02:14 +0000 2023
Announcement: Thanks, Andrew! Not sure if the entire text is somewhere online but here is a link to the Southern Review edition… https://t.co/68uhaKI2Cu Updated: Sun Mar 19 02:13:05 +0000 2023
Announcement: Amazing! Cadmus Court near the Bogota border and Terhune Park. T-Neck records!!! https://t.co/t1iW03uYOt Updated: Sat Mar 18 19:54:16 +0000 2023
Announcement: Mexicali was in walking distance. Near @FDU if I recall correctly. :) Nothing says Jersey than having an intersecti… https://t.co/2SiycajwOv Updated: Sat Mar 18 19:51:59 +0000 2023
Announcement: Thanks, Mike! Had fun! Great to talk about some #Phillies days and old teammates! ⬇️ https://t.co/KR3qoEThiM Updated: Sat Mar 18 19:49:44 +0000 2023
Announcement: Wow. Number 1! Is Damon Lindelof on twitter? Lawrence Frank? 🤔 @watchmen #LOST @LAClippers https://t.co/6799hrxFCW Updated: Sat Mar 18 04:42:59 +0000 2023
Announcement: We danced in my hometown all of the time. https://t.co/06wijge9Bp Updated: Sat Mar 18 01:25:54 +0000 2023
Announcement: Prom night? https://t.co/VQjk1F8iks Updated: Sat Mar 18 01:24:08 +0000 2023
Announcement: Wow! Teaneck, NJ! @FDUKnights was across the street from where I played Little League baseball. :) @MarchMadnessMBB Updated: Sat Mar 18 01:15:36 +0000 2023
Announcement: Teaching a course on sport in society at @UConn has taught me about the open-heartedness of students through all th… https://t.co/KSjz89Z46c Updated: Thu Mar 16 14:58:52 +0000 2023
Announcement: Wonderful new Starkville podcast with our friend @PerezEd who shares the meaning of the @WBCBaseball to Puerto Rico… https://t.co/yEEsdahUE4 Updated: Wed Mar 15 01:34:05 +0000 2023
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It’s an awesome new Starkville. Eduardo Perez talks WBC, uniform malfunctions and imperfect games with me and @… Updated: Tue Mar 14 19:31:56 +0000 2023
Announcement: Although the brew would have made for interesting game commentary, I had to pass, but I did have a burger. :) https://t.co/aqmM9AjzL5 Updated: Mon Mar 13 15:09:00 +0000 2023
Announcement: I only have 30 years on them! :) My Spanish is still good enough too! https://t.co/MJnUYF0qzN Updated: Mon Mar 13 02:03:00 +0000 2023
My childhood raises its hand once in a while to demand attention. It could be because one of my four kids could benefit from a story from that time, but more often it is a reminder of the loyalties and lessons from 30 years of being in and around pro baseball.
My childhood raises its hand once in a while to demand attention. It could be because one of my four kids could benefit from a story from that time, but more often it is a reminder of the loyalties and lessons from 30 years of being in and around pro baseball.
After colliding in the outfield yesterday, both Jason Heyward and Kris Bryant are not in the lineup today. It raises the importance and difficulty of communication in the outfield and the safety issues that come with it when it fails.
Kris Bryant is an MVP, Rookie of the Year, World Champion and a super talent. Not just because he displays the outward abilities like power or hitting for average, but because he has the less visible skills, like good baserunning, plate discipline, intangible instincts.
When the Cubs made me their first round draft pick in 1991, it was easy to see it as a dream come true. The chance to play as a profession, a game that I loved since I could walk. My brother, eight years my senior, taught me the game, rule-by-rule, inning-by-inning, until I learned to love not only playing it, but the stats, the decisions, the cities, the culture, the history.
I know what it’s like to play in Philadelphia. I was there as a major leaguer from 1998 to 2002, then again in my final year in 2004, but even before that, I played there in college from 1988 until the 1991 draft.
With commissioner Rob Manfred’s announcement yesterday that Major League Baseball will hold off on the universal designated hitter, it took me back to this scene when I was playing in the American League for the first time at the ripe old age of 32.
“Seriously, their starter is still in the game?” I wondered.