Mets: 3 glaring roster holes keeping New York from World Series contention
What are the three biggest obstacles keeping the New York Mets from winning the World Series in 2022? The New York Mets look about as close to unbeatable as any team in the National League. New York spent big over the offseason and it would appear as though the roster is as good, if not […]
Watch: Joc Pederson gets back at heckling Brewers fans in best way possible
San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson got immediate revenge on some Milwaukee Brewers hecklers via the long ball. The Giants broadcast team captured the event in full after a well-placed commercial break. After what appeared to be a check swing, some Brewers fans caught Pederson’s eye for the wrong reasons. He took note, and later […]
Systems Thinking With Flowers: A mystical collection of baseball poetry
The new poetry collection from Krystal Languell, Systems Thinking with Flowers, uses baseball as a backdrop to explore some very big ideas. When I first met poet Krystal Languell, we talked about attending a White Sox game since the tickets were cheap and the food at “The Rate” is good. We’re both Chicago Cubs fans, […]
Blood In the Garden: A delightful, heartbreaking journey with the 90s Knicks
Chris Herring’s Blood in the Garden is a well-researched work that captures the tenacity of the 1990s Knicks in all its feral glory The New York Knicks of the 1990s continually found themselves intersecting with greatness. In the words of Chris Herring, whose debut book Blood In the Garden covers those teams, “They were a brute-force […]
