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• Turn Out The LIghts…The Party’s Over.

  

  I had no misguided delusions of this team winning the division at the beginning of the 2021 season. The past few days I have read various comments comparing... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Turn Out The LIghts…The Party’s Over.

  

  I had no delusions of this team winning the division at the beginning of the 2021 season. In the past few days I have read comments comparing Sergio Romo to a... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Author Almost Swallowed by the Pacific on a Perfectly “Sonny” Day

  

  Pirates Cove, Malibu I remember that day well. I had almost drown while surfing in the hidden cove. The waves took me under and I was thrashing around at the... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• 2 Dudes Talk About Baseball Movies

  

  Gary Trujillo: I watched that I met BD writer Ron Shelton at the Burbank Library in 2010 and he was a cool guy. Jim Bouton (RIP) was there that day too as was... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Japanese Baseball, Guns and Meathooks

  

  "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."― Werner Herzog I'm walking down the street on a mai... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• An Interview With Oakland A’s UK

  

  Although much of what I do here is the literary equivalent of digital fish wrap, I recently decided to go a different direction and did a cool and very... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Trade Deadline and Crappy Baseball Magazines

  

  2 Bennys please. Here is a cover I "designed" for a little-known and now-defunct baseball magazine (this was around the time magazines were on the cusp of... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The ‘Fro Goes to a Baseball Game

  

  Round Rock Express vs Springfield Isotopes To everyone's shock and surprise, yours truly was apparently persuasive enough to wrangle a few media credentials... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Time Keeps on Slippin’…Into the Future

  

  I guess ice cream sandwiches seemed more important. All it takes is one minor "insignificant" thing to enter labyrinthine corridors that lead to dreams,... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• More Ranting About a Dumb Kid’s Game

  

  Bow at the feet of Dick Mountain, he of the perpetual blister and fellow jizz user. "Baseball opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and most of 'em... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• More Ranting About a Dumb Kids Game

  Bow to the feet of Dick Mountain, he of the perpetual blister and fellow jizz user. Baseball "agitprop" continues as the Houston Asterisks became yesterday's... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Free at Last! Summer Is Here!

  

  Hook 'em Horns I went to one of those fancy movie premieres and it was an experience that was embraced as a heroic poem and not just a regular, boring... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Free at Last! Summer Is Here!

  

  Hook 'em Horns I dragged myself to one of those fancy movie premieres, and it was an experience that was embraced as a heroic poem and not just a regular, borin... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Ex-Oakland Athletic Brian Kingman Talks About Books, Baseball Cards, and...

  

  By Brian Kingman Ok, so what the hell does Don Mossi have to do with Billy Martin, Cal Ripken Jr. Durwood Merrill, Rickey Henderson? ( editors note: the Cal... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Asterisks Beer Review While Vaxxed as F***

  

  Bang. Bang. I know the threat of the Oakland Athletics moving to a different city looms in the shadows, but it would be inconsequential to comment here until th... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Junk Wax Era for a Junk Wax Culture

  

  Who farted? "No one jumps when the phone rings at Todd Van Poppel's house. It rings almost constantly, and not just because Todd is a typical high school senior... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A’s Come out of the Gate Looking Like Glass Joe, Now Look Like a Second Level...

  

  The Mike Tyson's Punchout cheat code is: 007 373 5963 You know, I haven't been giving this humble blog much time or attention lately, so I suppose it's time to... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A’s Come out of the Gate Looking Like Glass Joe, Now Look Like a Second Level...

  

  The Mike Tyson cheat code is: 007 373 5963 You know, I haven't been giving this humble blog much time or attention lately, so I suppose it's time to "dip into... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• It’s the Day Before Opening Day, Day

  

  Now that's a beautiful lineup. Nine out of 10 shirtless guys agree. I was watching an A's /Twins game from 1988 on YooToob and it was a blast from the past... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The First World Pit of Hell

  

  She's just a Nordstroms model, it wasn't her fault. I wasn't close to my father, who was a rather opaque person. He wasn't unkind - I mean, he didn't have any... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS