No Reds Country For Old Men
February 6, 2016
Enjoy Every Pitch
September 26, 2015
I cannot tell you how much I loved Warren Zevon, his music, his balls-to-the-walls sensibility. When the troubadour was dying of lung cancer over a decade ago, David Letterman had him on The Late Show and asked how the diagnosis had informed his work—and Zevon said “you’re reminded to enjoy every sandwich.”
A Brief History of Billy
August 27, 2015
“You cannot predict the future.”
–Stephen Hawking
With apologies to a very smart Dan Szymborski, creator of the ZIPS projection simulator, PECOTA, and the prescient Steamer, conceived literally around the corner from where I once lived on Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights at the Saint Ann’s School, you are pushing a very heavy rock uphill when you attempt to predict future events. The future is unknowable. This we know. And yet we beat on, bunts against the shift.
Guac is Extra: How Did the Reds Suddenly Run Out of Money?
August 9, 2015
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.
And The Wheel Turns
July 31, 2015
There are so many things. So many moments to hold and rewind as we Cincinnati Reds fans head off in our hardhats to the reconstruction project ahead and you head off for your well-deserved October glory.
Pardon the interruption, Baseball, but there are just a few things that need to be said.
Thanks, Johnny Cueto.Continue Reading
Chicken Little and the Cueto Angst
July 26, 2015
We’re tired.
The Moment
July 14, 2015
We came for the Year. We settled for the Moment.
The Tipping Point
July 5, 2015
In the middle of the seventh inning, Christopher Kiradjieff, Assistant Principal and trumpet player with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, played God Bless America for the home crowd at Great American Ball Park. It felt for all the world like he was playing Taps for the Cincinnati Reds 2015 season.
Dead Man(ager) Walking?
April 21, 2015
“As I always say, a command is a lonely job. It isn’t easy to make decisions. Sometimes the captain of a ship needs help. And by help, I mean constructive loyalty. What I’m trying to say is, uh, a ship is like a family. We all have our ideas of right and wrong but we have to pitch in for the good of the family. If there was only some way we could help each other.”
Opening Day
April 8, 2015
