Sometimes I feel like a character in a sitcom. I make some mistakes, have a few laughs along the way and, in the end, as the music swells, I learn my lesson. Maybe there’s a hug, credits roll, see you next week. Except I haven’t really learned anything because I need to make the same mistakes again next week and I need to emotionally learn … Continue reading Another Baseball Screed
As I prepared to announce last night’s UIC-Loyola women’s basketball game, a name popped out at me from the Loyola roster. The Ramblers have a brand new coaching staff and their first-year Director of Player Development is Chanise Jenkins. I haven’t thought about Chanise Jenkins much over the last decade but the second I saw her name, I was instantly hit with a deluge of … Continue reading “A truly super super-sectional game”
We always seem to be at Lake Erie at the end of the season. That means that every year, I spend some time wandering around the city of Westlake trying to make sense of the summer that now has passed. It’s only this last week of the year that I start to realize that the summer has passed. I often talk about the time vortex that is … Continue reading A Critical Analysis of the 2021 Baseball Season
Sometimes, less is more. But not usually when you’re on the radio and there’ll be dead air if you don’t talk. In November of 2006, I got to announce my first college sporting event. I was a freshman at Saint Xavier University and was put on the call of their women’s basketball game for our campus radio station. Announcing games was half the reason I … Continue reading Tongue-Tied
“Well, I’d better start packing,” I announced as I rose from my chair by the door. I had been sitting in the common room of the London flat I shared with 11 other American students. Grant, one of my flatmates, sat on the couch to my right and Jake, another resident of Flat 17, was in the chair to my left. We sat, unconsciously, in … Continue reading Terry’s Odyssey
For the past three years, I have been leading the campaign to get Larry Walker into the Hall of Fame. The campaign has mostly involved talking him up to people who don’t actually have Hall of Fame votes, so you’d think it would be largely ineffective, but his voting totals have gone up every year since I started, so clearly I should take credit. With … Continue reading Larry Walker or: How I Finally Gave Up and Stopped Trying to Determine Hall of Fame Qualifications
When the White Sox and WGN announced that they had reached an agreement to broadcast all 162 games for the upcoming baseball season and beyond, I heard a lot of celebration that baseball is back on WGN after a three-year drought. But I also heard people express the oddness that it’s the White Sox they’ll be listening to on AM 720 and not the Cubs. … Continue reading WGN – Chicago’s Very Own Home for Baseball
[Originally published in the Windy City ThunderBolts game program in May, 2017] On June 30, 1993, eight teams began play in the Frontier professional baseball League and a new era of baseball was born. Well, maybe not exactly a new era. In fact, independent baseball is just about as old as baseball itself with leagues existing all over the country for well over a century. … Continue reading 25 years of Frontier Leaguing
[Originally published on wcthunderbolts.com in September, 2015] I confess I’ve seen a lot of baseball in my life. But I don’t remember ever seeing a stretch of games like the first 64 that the ThunderBolts played this year. Exactly two thirds of the way through the season, after watching this team play day after day for more than two months, I still didn’t know what … Continue reading 2015-We hardly kne…you get the idea
[Originally published on wcthunderbolts.com in September, 2013] On August 26 of last year, the ThunderBolts suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the eventual champion Southern Illinois Miners. They lost leads in the seventh and eighth and then dropped the game in the tenth. The loss effectively ended the ThunderBolts’ playoff hopes but it was the type of game, with a week to go … Continue reading 2013-We hardly knew ye
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