Meme-O-Random: Baseball Puns—Beethoven’s Ninth
There’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and bad puns. So, baseball puns are basically double-American. You may never listen to Beethoven’s Ninth ever the same. But, let’s be fair: you probably weren’t going to listen to it anyway. …
Meme-O-Random: Where Will Bryce Harper Sign
We’re two months into free agency and we still have no idea where Bryce Harper will be playing next season so we decided to take a few guesses. The Dodgers look like a good fit, but McDonald’s could be good …
Hall of Fame Fantasies—from Jurickson Profar to Mariano Rivera
Cooperstown Dreams Every player has fantasies of being immortalized into the Hall of Fame. In January 2019, it’s likely Mariano Rivera will be unanimously inducted into the Hall. Just a few weeks ago, a dynamic player many teams had coveted …
New Year’s Resolutions 2019
Happy New Year to all of you who read my column—the casual readers, the enthusiastic borderline cyber-stalkers and even the folks who just wound up here from Google because I typed “Nick Jonas STD scare” just now. 2018 was a …
Baseball Free Agency: Money for Nothing
Play Ball! The baseball story begins as an outgrowth of money, gambling and the insatiable love of baseball in American cities. It was not a story of money for nothing a decade after the Civil War ended. It began as …
Starting 9 – Clint Eastwood Movies
Each week on the Foul Territory Podcast, Jed Rigney takes a current event and tries his best to match the names of active MLB players to that subject. With Clint Eastwood’s latest film The Mule in theaters now, we’re taking …
Meme-O-Random: Opening Day 99 Days Away
How long until Opening Day? We are glad you asked. It’s just 99 days away. This is truly the most wonderful time of the year! Check out more funny baseball memes in Off Base. Or like our Facebook page: The Baseball …
Where Have You Gone Charlie Hustle?
Baseball’s Issues If you read Phil Mushnick’s column in the New York Post the other day, entitled, Machado shows baseball places value on all the wrong qualities, you read an astute analysis about what’s wrong with baseball. Mushnick writes that baseball …
Reasons to be Nervous About Yankees Pitching?
Nervous Nellie Approach Once again, reading some of the sportswriters in the New York press this week feels like hysteria on steroids. The world is coming to an end at Yankee Stadium because the Yankees did not sign Patrick Corbin, Nathan …
Hot Stove Musings: Patrick Corbin Auction (Greed Personified) and the Middling Mets
Four, Five, or Six Years? Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported the Yankees decided they wanted to go four years on Patrick Corbin, but then decided to add a fifth year to the contract. Then they were told …
