One of the great failings of Major League Baseball is, quite simply, the appalling lack of cheerleaders. Go to any April night game at Fenway Park. You’ll find mile-long lines at the hot chocolate stand and grown men huddling under promotional stadium blankets. You won’t find Red Sox-sanctioned cheerbabes leading the crowd in the wave […]
Continue reading →You may be forgiven for thinking that the wind howling down Brookline Avenue the other day was the laughter of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, forever haunting the Olde Towne Team with the memory of that fateful October night in the South Bronx. As yet another Red Sox hurler went down with a leg injury – in scenes eerily […]
Continue reading →What’s up, y’all? When “Baseball Tonight” asked me to write about baseball for their site, I was running wind sprints in Journal Square. That’s how much Rickey loves the game. It’s April, and he’s running around Newark like a chump. No misrespect intended to the rest of the Newark Bears, but Rickey Henderson is a […]
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