Gary

LATEST ARTICLES ( 248 )

• I Fought for Sleep and Law Won

  

  "That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest." -Henry David Thoreau I've been dealing with a minor case of insomnia and had finally fallen asleep (I've... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2023 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Magic of Baseball

  

  I am currently reading Haruki Murakami's Novelist as a Vocation, and I thought this was an interesting passage. I hope everyone enjoys it. One bright... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2023 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Spring Training!

  

  "Could you pick up Thai noodles at the store?" she asked while absentmindedly fixing her hair and periodically snapping the panties out of her ass. She lives o... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2023 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Game

  

  "Eighty percent of the people who hear your troubles don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them." -Tommy Lasorda The power went out fo... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2023 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Small Portraits of Everyday Things

  

  We passed through the iron gates for what seemed like the thousandth time. I hadn't seen Cheech for over 2 years, and we agreed to meet at our lucky cemetery... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2023 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A Few ‘Graph Stories

  

  I've got some time to kill on this chilly Northern California morning, so why not dig into the ol' cigar box and tell some 'graph stories? As you may know, my... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2022 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Oakland, Hola De Nuevo

  

  I hadn't been to Oakland in almost a decade due to living in Los Angeles for what seemed like a lifetime. This visit reminded me that I once knew a girl who... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Tigers, Trees, and Oiled Bleacher Creatures

  

  Lazy Sunday. There were men outside my house audibly cutting a tree into pot belly stove-sized pieces and annoying me in the process. The massive tree had falle... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2022 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Huston Street Is a Street

  

  She just bought some bitchin' clothes/Tosses her head/And flips her hair/She got a whole bunch of nothing in there-Valley Girl, Frank Zappa I used to live on... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2022 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Gibberish, Nonsense, and Baseball Cards

  

  Every night, around 10:00, I swallow melatonin and then turn off my phone. Soon after, I jump in the shower so the melatonin has some time to set in. After the... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2022 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Summer 2009

  

  We lounged almost daily on Santa Monica Beach, preferably on the less touristy north end of the pier, and we more or less happily stayed on our small,... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2022 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• An Ode To The Coliseum

  

  "As a friend once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy."-Paul Auster My grandfather took me to my first baseball game a... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2022 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

• 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

• 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