Many baseball people have the number 745 on their minds right now, and who can blame them? If it isn’t that number, it’s probably 500, because several hitters are capable of reaching the milestone of 500 career home runs this season. But one number that really holds my interest this season is 1000.   No […]

Folks, I had a number of visions during my 15 minutes of sleep last night. One vision was a 72-zip U-of-M victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes this Saturday. The evidence? A charred and blood-soaked Horseshoe, the deeply anguished holy spirit of the one and only Woody Hayes, a dismembered Brutus Buckeye, and the teeth […]

You might have read somewhere that we’re doing a big screen adaptation of 3 Nights in August. Here’s a look, in alphabetical order, at who we’ve talked to about playing myself. If you have a suggestion, leave a comment. Thanks. Greg Dulli Apparently he runs a bar near Dodger Stadium and sings for a grunge-lounge […]

L-R: Joel Zumaya (my roomie!), a forthcoming woman who requested to perform various acts upon me (I politely declined), myself. Ciao, What can I say? As I sit in the breakfast nook of my parents’ Chicago home and await the arrival of my Italian and Dutch tutors, I would like to express that I am […]

Tony Giarratano might not have realized that the voice inside his head when he stepped up to the plate last night in the seventh inning was mine — “There you go, Tony. Easy now. You’ve dreamt of this moment your whole life. Steady on the back heels. Keep those hips square. Field of dreams, kiddo, […]