I read these two book consecutively. Ball Four by Jim Bouton is “the” baseball classic. The ultimate insiders look at what really happens in the clubhouse. Maybe it was controversial in 1970, but today, it all seemed pretty tame. Baseball players cheat…

I read it. I enjoyed it. Can’t say I really understood it though. The writing is marvelous. The sense of place he builds in the small Midwestern towns is so real you can almost touch it. Having done the small Midwestern town thing, I felt right at home…

Many of the Queensryche sites on the Web are bitching about this album. Then again, I’m pretty sure these are the same people that have bitched about every album since Mindcrime. Look, Operation Mindcrime was a classic, maybe one of the 10 best rock al…

Simply put, Wil’s first effort at publishing is a winner. The book is thin, containing 5 stories that didn’t make the cut for his still in the works autobiography, Just a Geek. I read it cover to cover on the commute home one day. That not to imply the…

My monthly Village Records email described these guys as “John Mellencamp fronting The Replacements.”
3 minutes later I had ordered the CD from them without even bothering to search for MP3 samples. Sometimes you just gotta have faith.
My faith was rew…

What if the Sox hadn’t sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees? What if the Kennedys, and not Tom Yawkey had bought the team? What if Ted Williams didn’t miss 6 years due to military service? For that matter, what if Bill Lee had been pitching against Bucky Dent…

Today I was coaching third base in Little League. Nomar Jr hit a sharp grounder to third, which was fielded cleanly by the 3rd baseman. She (yes, a girl) air mailed the throw to first which resulted in Nomar ending up at second and a run scoring. The o…