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LATEST ARTICLES ( 248 )

• The A’s Are Caught, Once Again, Digging Through the Trash

  I'm sitting on the toilet regretting last nights consuming of toxic sludge and listening to the Minutemen "Shit You Hear at Parties," and it is 1 minute and 11... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Vida? Is That You?

  I know I have a predilection for visual art to be easy on the eye, but if it isn't easy on the eye then at least it should be meaningful and thought-provoking. ... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Ken Phelps is Ready to Rock Your World

  "(Jay) Buhner was a good prospect, no question about it, but my baseball people loved Ken Phelps' bat. They kept saying Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps!"-"George... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Ken Phelps is Ready to Rock Your World

  

  "(Jay) Buhner was a good prospect, no question about it, but my baseball people loved Ken Phelps' bat. They kept saying Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps!"-"George... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• RIP Tommy Lasorda

  Like most non-Dodgers fans, I was hard wired to detest Tommy Lasorda growing up- specifically because his Dodgers defeated the '88 Oakland ball-club for the... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2021 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• It’s Time to Give 2020 a Good, Swift Kick in the Ass

  The specter of 2020 is almost over, and this baseball writing interloper must take pause and perhaps a deep breath in order to reflect. I'm going to refrain fro... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• R.I.P. Joe Morgan

  

  I have an old cigar box where I stash my autographs, baseball cards, and other assorted bric-a-brac. Today I was looking through it for the first time in eons... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• R.I.P. Joe Morgan

  

  I have an old cigar box where I stash my autographs, baseball cards, and other assorted bric-a-brac. Today I was looking through it for the first time in eons... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Asterisks May Have the Can, but the A’s Prove to Be the Garbage

  

  “Baseball is visceral, tragic, and absurd with only fleeting moments of happiness; it may be the best representation of life.” –Adrian CardenasSorry, baseball... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Asterisks May Have the Can, but the A’s Prove to Be the Garbage

  

  "Baseball is visceral, tragic, and absurd with only fleeting moments of happiness; it may be the best representation of life." -Adrian Cardenas Sorry, baseball... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Bring on the Lying, Sniveling Cheaters Known as The Asterisks

  

  What a series. I aged about 10 years and definitely acquired a few gray hairs. At times I was sweating like a whore in church, and at other moments I didn’t kno... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Bring on the Sox

  

  R.I.P EazyWhen I think of the White Sox I immediately think of N.W.A., Bo Jackson, Bill Veeck, Charles Comiskey, goofy softball uniforms. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Hot Dogs!!!

  

  A hot dog amongst hot dogs.There isn’t enough mustard in the world to cover Reggie Jackson.” –Darold Knowles, Oakland A’s, 1973Once a year on the 4th of July... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A Baseball Player No Longer

  

  In 2012 Adrian Cardenas was a 24-year-old Chicago Cubbie, had 11 career hits, and publicly decided to quit baseball to drape himself in more intellectual... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Sometimes Life is the Pitts

  

  Card courtesy of whentoppshadballs.blogspot.comIs hitting zero home runs in the big leagues like being a writer who was never published? Or is it about the... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A’s Defeat Asterisks Under Surreal, Dali-esque Sky

  

  “People talk about escapism as if it’s a bad thing…Once you’ve escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Trades, Psychobabble, Etc.

  

  Through a shroud of cloudy-fogged smoke I had a constellation of ideas, but the major thought proposed in this imaginary world was a Franklin Barretto for... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A Simple, Yet Inquisitive Letter to Former Baseball Player Brian Kingman

  

  History was unearthed for a few bucks.Hey man…I bought this little pin at a garage sale and it happened to be attached to a ticket stub. After some research on... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• How Did Bob Welch Invade My Stream of Conciousness?

  

  The most ubiquitous Welch baseball card of my childhood. I must have owned dozens of them.If you do an impromptu internet search on Bob Welch Death, the... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A’s Kick the Crap out of the Asterisks and Send Them Packing with Tails Between...

  

  Elephants never forget.What a perfect Sunday. I woke up early, had some coffee and went for a short walk to the little patisserie a few blocks away for some... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 BASEBALL, SPORTS