Tag Archives: Major League Baseball

The Bandwagon

September 18, 2021 · by · in Sports · Leave a comment

I’ll admit it. I’m checking the win column daily. Which is weird for someone who doesn’t really care for the Toronto Blue Jays. It isn’t that I don’t like baseball. It is more that as someone raised in Montreal I remain a die-hard Expos fan. Political wrangling inside Major League Baseball saw the Expos leave […]

Very Minor League

August 27, 2017 · by · in Sports · Leave a comment

For the opening pitch there were fewer than 100 people in the stands, looking rather lonely in a stadium that seats 6,000. Welcome to perhaps the lowest tier of professional baseball. The Old Orchard Beach Surge play in the Empire League, a group of independent teams not affiliated with organized baseball. The Ballpark was built […]

Is It Monday Already?

October 10, 2016 · by · in Uncategorized · 1 Comment

I couldn’t help myself. I watched the American presidential debate last night. That after a day of family activities to celebrate Thanksgiving (which is today here). I figured I would finish the post I had planned for today once the debate was over. But the baseball game between the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays […]

Cuban Baseball

June 18, 2016 · by · in Sports, World Affairs · Leave a comment

Suppose you had to choose between the dream of a lifetime and ever seeing you family again. How would you choose? What if the choice was between riches and poverty? That’s an easy one. Except with the money you lose your family and your home. Does that change the equation? There are a group of […]

Opening Day

May 21, 2016 · by · in Sports · Leave a comment

On the first day of the baseball season the stadium really is a field of dreams. Everything is potential; the harshness of reality has yet to take hold. Thursday night the Ottawa Champions took the field for the first time in 2016. (Starting the season here before mid-May leaves you at risk for snow. I […]

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

August 5, 2015 · by · in Sports · Leave a comment

There are very few things more boring than watching baseball on television. I don’t remember when I last bothered to watch a game. It is about as interesting as watching paint dry. On the other hand, I love live baseball. There is something special about taking in a game on a hot summer afternoon, or […]