The following fragment is here published at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity [William Wesley], and, as far as the Author’s own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits. In the fall of 2007, the Author, then in ill spirits due […]
Continue reading →Hawk here. Don’t wanna say I told you so. But I said it. Now, I might be a lotta things to a whole lotta people. Some good. Some great. But one thing that Hawk Harrelson ain’t is a told-you-soer. Hawk’s got class. Like a university. One of those Ivy League schools. Brick buildings. Hippie chicks. […]
Continue reading →I know this has nothing to do with baseball, but since I am a baseball commentator, and this concerns something I supposedly did during a baseball game, then I guess it’s a baseball matter. A loyal fan e-mailed me this little “blog” link concerning a little something I said last night concerning the lovely and […]
Continue reading →Don’t let the tricky title fool you. Yes, it’s another edition of DUCK SNORTS! I’m ready if you are. Let’s do this thing, people! CUBS HAVE HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH PIE: The Chicago Cubs, finding themselves locked into a struggle for first place in the NL Central with the St. Louis Cardinals (who are totally […]
Continue reading →Today, Yard Work will step aside and introduce today’s Season Preview post from longtime A’s manager Connie Mack with an anecdote from Mack’s Wikipedia page: “Once, when [Mack] visited the mound to remove the notoriously hot-tempered [Lefty] Grove from a game, Grove said, ‘Go take a shit,’ when Mack held out his hand for the […]
Continue reading →What, you think the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview shriveled up and died like the site usually does between May and August? Shut up! For the San Diego Padres’ preview, we took a big flying leap and reached out to one of our favorite rock stars, golden god Scott Weiland! And he reached back! Like, […]
Continue reading →It’s never too late for another 2008 Season Preview from your favorite baseball weblog, especially when the preview concerns the New York Mets, and extra-especially when it’s written by longtime Yard Work commentator (and former Mets player / coach) Rickey Henderson! Get paid with Met knowledge! Man, all Rickey has to say about those toilet […]
Continue reading →I bet you didn’t realize that it’s time for another back of DUCK SNORTS. On behalf of those of us at Yard Work, I have to apologize for our sporadic posting schedule of late — I guess we were caught up in the fervor of baseball’s first month like the rest of baseball was! But […]
Continue reading →Again, I bid top dollar to you with my greetings! Yes, once and always, it has been a long series of moons since I shined my peculiar light on subjects for this varied website. Let me not recount how much less than zero my lump of a baseball playing career has summed into, and instead […]
Continue reading →Opening Day’s come and gone, but Yard Work’s 2008 Season Preview keeps limping along! Today we hear from another presidential nominee, Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, as she holds court on her hometown team, the New York Yankees. Just as it has been my honor to serve as a Senator to the greatest state in these […]
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