I Live For This... Borrowing that line from the Major League Baseball TV commercials, this final week of the baseball season has this baseball fan reveling in the possibilities. We fans wait patiently through 155 games until the final week of the regular season, hoping that Gods shine on us and create the last-minute...

Warren Spahn... Yesterday one of baseball’s greats passed on to that hall of fame in the sky. Warren Spahn’s passing, the winningest lefty of all time, gives us a chance to reflect back on baseball the way it used to be played before the million-dollar babies, strikes, and other tug-of-wars over the...

A New Excuse... Over the many years that I’ve rooted for baseball teams who inevitably fell on their collective butts as the shadow of the postseason approached, I’ve held to the belief that they “didn’t have enough pitching” or “failed to make timely hits” or even...

Go Cubbies!... This is the time when I perennially give a collective sigh for the handful of baseball teams I root for…the Houston Astros, the Chicago Cubs, and the Boston Red Sox. It never fails that any or all of them approach the end of the season with less follow through than hope, and inevitably one...