This must be love, fits like a glove.  Well it must be love, it must be love – fits like a glove – fits like a glove.  -Kiss

Shhhhh.  It’s around the corner.  Baseball’s around the corner.  Smell it?  Hooray baseball!  I love baseball.  I’m Like Carl Yastrzemski:  “I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning.   I think about it all day and I dream about it at night.  The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.”  And considering I don’t play much of it anymore, I’m thinking about it all the time.  Today I’m thinking about the best defensive players in the game today.  What’s glove got to do with it, got to do with it?  Everything.  Always has.  Always will. Read More »

What does it take to be number one?  Two is not a winner and three nobody remembers.  What does it take to be number one?  Hey hey hey hey..  -Nelly

Opening day is just two weeks away.  Ahhhh, baseball.  The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.  America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.  It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.  But baseball has marked the time.  I know it’s a little early.  I know what Bill Veeck said.  I know he said, “This is a game to be savored, not gulped.  There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.”  I don’t care.  I want it all.  I want it now.  I want to know what the Big Fundamental wants to know.  “Good, better, best.  Never let it rest.  Until your good is better and your better is best.”  Who’s good?  Who’s the best?  Today we will discuss who’s the best.  We’ll discuss who’s the worst.  And we’ll discuss everything in between.  So, without further ado, let’s hand out the hardware:          Read More »

I suggest you take your bloody mess and find a piece of wire.  Fix your broken jaw, then it’s time to retire.  Punks jump up to get beat down!  -Brand Nubian

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Like my main man the Babe himself always says, “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”  Damaso Marte was throwing strikes.  Threw Strikes to Nick Green.  Threw strikes to Dustin Pedroia.  Threw strikes to Big Papi.  Threw strikes to three out of four guys.  All that did was bring him closer to Kevin Youkilis.  Youuuuuuk!  It had to be Youk.  Wonderful Youk.  It had to be Youk.  Youk with the tremendous home run.  Youk with the monumental home run.  Youk with the historic home run.  Yes Virginia, historic.  In all the games these two teams have played, in all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, the last Red Sox player to hit an extra-inning walk-off home run against the Yankees was the imitable Jim Gosger, who connected in the 16th inning off the imitable Dooley Womack on June 4, 1966.  How about that?      Read More »

Stay gold, Ponyboy.  Stay gold.  -Outsiders

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Some people say I wanna fill the world with silly glove songs.  And what’s wrong with that?  I’d like to know.  ’Cause here I go, again.  One question.  A simple one really.  How is it that Kevin Youkilis does not get a Gold Glove?  How?  He just may be the best defensive player in all of baseball.  It’s a travesty.  It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.   Read More »

You must learn!  -Boogie Down Productions         Read More »

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.  -Albert Einstein

1.  Wanna see the Yankees win?  Huh?  Do ya?  Watch the Bronx is Burning.  It’s the only place you’ll see it.  Ha ha ha ha!!!!         Read More »

Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.  ~William James

Public Knowledge:

1.  Kobe Bean. The Mamba.  First he ran Shaq out of town.  Three rings and run out of town.  Rocked this town, rocked it inside out.  They rocked this town, made ‘em scream and shout.  The Lakers have not won a playoff series since O’Neal was traded.  The Lakers have a 121-125 record the last three seasons.  Now that Kobe has ruined his team, he wants out himself.  Is there anything to get you to remain with the Laker organization?  No, Bro.  Is there a more selfish player in all of sportsdom than this cat?  No, Bro.  And they say Lenny Bias hurt the Celtics.        Read More »