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I’m Just a Gun Cleanin’ Fool.
This is a short piece of fiction inspired by a very real moment of reality. God, I love Leila.Sounds like she is feeding the dogs right now. Jesus, those tits... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Hank Bauer Had a Very Bad Day.
This is a short piece of fiction inspired by a very real situation.Hank Bauer slammed down his glass of scotch as his wife, Charlene looked on. Read more
Posted on 24 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Gene Tenace, the 1972 World Series and the Crazy Guy.
Don’t shoot!By Gene Tenace“Well, if you gotta go, Gene, at least it will be on national television.”–Reggie JacksonIn the 1972 World Series (against the... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Billy and The Mick.
The air is getting more crisp in the mornings and I’m looking forward to Fall and sweaters and hot coffee in the early AM hours. Read more
Posted on 16 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Watch out Josh Reddick! Joe Rudi Was the Original Spiderman.
1969 ToppsI was elated to receive this personalized autograph in the mail, and since the season is over for the Oakland ball-club, I thought that this would be ... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
The Invariable Oakland DH…a Strange and Funny Day.
“Strikeouts are boring–besides that they’re fascist.”–Crash DavisI could only laugh when I received these autographs in the mail on the same day! It was uncanny. Read more
Posted on 06 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Billy Beane Pundits Are Ruling the Media These Days…my Argument Against Their...
Feeling the heat.By Colonel Harland SandersProcess over results every time. All. The. Time. Process is how you sustain success. Process is how you give... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
The Oakland Athletics and Their Horrible “gag Job.”
Just “making it” doesn’t cut it anymore. Throughout the cursing, nail-biting, pacing and punching, (there is now a small hole in my desk.) the media has... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Wild Card….ummmm…yay?
Josh Reddick somehow let his right ball fall out.The entity that is the Oakland Athletics continued their on-going mind fuck by making the playoffs on Sunday. Read more
Posted on 29 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
The Billy Beane Failure Chronicles…part 1
He’s a stone cold fox! Also nicknamed “Captain Clutch.”Even a “genius” can make mistakes. Nikola Tesla made bizarre contraptions such as an earthquake machine... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
The Yo-pocalypse That Never Actually Happened.
Voodoo dolls can be purchased for the folks who believe in such nonsense.Some believe that a superstition is anything that people believe that is based on... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Angels Win the West. Ho Hum.
Elephants never forget.The “Los Angeles” Angels clinched the Western division last night, finally living up to their “potential” and bloated pay-roll. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Eric Chavez Retires, the A’s Are Really, Really Bad, and the Summer is Ending...
battered, stained and sad.The A’s have continued their frustrating nose dive into oblivion, now only percentage points in front of the Mariners, and a half... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Jack Kerouac and Baseball.
“Writers are a different breed of lonely and resistant re-arrangers of things; anxious malcontents, children afflicted at birth with some presentiment of loss. Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
A Moment of Bravado (and a Message to the Angels) as the Last Month of the Seaso...
Is it time to panic? Was it all wishful thinking? Do we have a rational chance? I’m not sure if I wrote about the following experience on this blog. Read more
Posted on 02 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Random Thoughts and Rollie Fingers Riding a Dolphin.
Just a few random thoughts……The A’s bullpen has stunk this season. The Jim Johnson fiasco and Luke Gregerson’s 7 blown saves has given a crap team like the... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Slump!!!!
Here I am again, sitting by the poolside with a screwdriver, one of my favorite adult beverages. You may think that I’m trying to be a braggart, but L.A. summer... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
The Incomparable Coco Crisp
Joe from the Shlabotnik Report made this custom “baseball card” just for The Fro! Thanks, Joe. You can check out his site here…http://shlabotnikreport.wordpress. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
A Message to the Rest of the Baseball World Regarding the Shit That Goes on in...
“We tend to think of true fandom as a virtue and of bandwagon jumping as a vice. But why? What’s so great about pulling for a team even when it does poorly?... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS -
Brandon Moss, the Underdog.
“In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS