Termina Agosto, entramos en la recta final (August ends, we enter the final straight)

Tradicionalmente, el mes de agosto ha servido siempre para separar “la paja del grano” o lo que es lo mismo, separar a los equipos que van a pos-temporada y a los que no “van para abajo” como se dice en términos hípicos. Con el fin de Agosto podemos afirmar oficialmente que entramos en la recta […]

Let’s Play Two

The Sunday doubleheader was a staple of baseball in the Golden Era of the game, you know, when the World Series was played in the first half of October and kids listened to Don Larsen’s perfect game on the radio in Ms. Hill’s sixth grade class.  The Nationals and Brewers played a Sunday doubleheader today. […]

Pitchin’ On The Dock Of The Bay

You knew, just looking at the matchups, two things about this weekend’s series.  One, it was going to be darn tough for the Cardinals to keep their streak of not losing a series alive.  The second was that if anyone scored, it was going to be a fairly impressive accomplishment. Sometimes when you think you […]