2009 MLB Preview: Blue Isn’t Anything Except A Color

Better late than never, here’s the first of what hopes to be a thirty-part series called The 2009 Inaugural Jockish MLB Preview / Post-Preview of Baseball Things & Stuff (AKA our ill-timed 2009 baseball preview). We begin in a place where the season’s ended far too early these past years, and with a man whose […]

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2008 Season Preview: Kansas City Royals

Welcome to the latest installment of Yard Work’s 2008 Season Preview. Today’s preview comes from a currently defunct weblog [concerts.1111111kcrtickets.com/blog] whose content we assume is free for us to cut and paste into our own online publication that we do not consider a “blog” in the slightest. We’re using an incongruous pic of good old […]

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Heart of Blueness.

The last days were ugly. The ballclub had been in disarray for weeks, faced with a Brobdingnagian series of heartbreaking losses and baserunning buffoonery the likes of which had rarely been seen since the 1962 New York Metropolitans. The clubhouse air was dank and dismal, tasting faintly of mustard and failure. Even Angel Berroa, always […]

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