There goes Roy Hobbes…

Cue this up to 3:42

Mascots

In honor of Halloween, and in keeping with baseball month, here’s a little post about the sport’s costume-clad mascots.  What I discovered looking up baseball mascots (and you can find them all at BaseballMascots.com)  is - baseball has some cute mascots, some funny mascots— and some really, really bad mascots.  Seriously. I  kind of get now why [...]

Elvis is in the building (and he came from Venezuela)

What do you get when you mix a Puerto Rican man, a guy from Arkansas, a Dominican named Vlad and a Veneuzuelan named Elvis? Answer – half the Texas Rangers starting lineup. One thing I love about baseball is the diversity so many of the teams display and how it reflects the nature of our [...]

Red Sox Hit A Different Kind of Pitch

 I don’t think it was in honor of John Lennon’s birthday, but  it seems John Henry and the rest of the Boston Red Sox ownership is about to pull a wacky sports crossover and buy one of England’s most storied Premier League football clubs – Liverpool FC.      They call themselves The Reds. This is [...]