Pete Rose Was My First Hero

June 23, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

I can’t speak to Pete Rose fairly. I suppose I will ask that anyone who feels like they can refrain from doing so here. I know what you’ll say. I don’t need to hear it. You see, Rose was my first and all-time greatest sports hero. To say I worshiped the guy doesn’t come close. […]

“Hey Rookie…you were good”

September 24, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

Now and then, baseball stories like “The Natural” actually happen for real. But when they do, they don’t look like Robert Redford. They look like Guilder Rodriguez. Guilder Rodriguez is the feel-good baseball story of the year. Maybe the feel-good story of the year, period. As a Rangers’ fan, it made me proud of the […]

The Dallas Cowboys Are Losers

September 5, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

Update 12.30.13: Written in September…still true today….EF “Sitting back trying to recapture, a little of the glory of, well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of…glory days” — Bruce Springsteen The Dallas Cowboys are losers. I don’t mean that pejoratively. I mean it statistically. Many of us grew up […]

Past the Bitterness, The Bitterness Passes

October 29, 2011.Reading time 18 minutes.

Before you read any further, you should probably remind yourselves that the title of all my sports-related-blogs is “HSO’s from a Bitter P-1.”(See #1 Below…) I got that nickname from the folks on the “Bob and Dan” radio program, at the conclusion of the 2006 NBA Finals, when the Mavs lost to the Heat. I […]

Redemption

October 19, 2011.Reading time 6 minutes.

Game One of the 2011 World Series starts in about three hours from now, and I still can’t believe it. The other day on The Ticket, I heard long-time Ranger fan, Mike Rhyner say, “I still can’t believe these are the RANGERS we’re talking about.” I know what he means. I’ve talked about what it’s […]

Boycott the Rangers

April 7, 2009.Reading time 6 minutes.

It’s Opening Day, and it should be one of my favorite days of the year. Up until a few years ago, I had a great tradition of always going to the Opening Day game. Not anymore. Nor can I share the zeal of those who are gleeful today. Three years ago, I wrote this blog […]

Rest in Peace, Buck…

October 20, 2006.Reading time 3 minutes.

For all of those who are regular readers of my blog, you may be worried that I’ve fallen off the planet or something. Nothing of the sort. But, with the election looming, now eighteen-days-away, things are little hectic around our household. Every spare moment I have these past few weeks has been devoted to working […]

Why I Can’t Afford to Love the Rangers

July 7, 2006.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’ve been there beside this miserable team since the very beginning. It’s not just that I’ve been attached to players like Pudge Rodriguez. It’s that I’ve been attached to players like David Clyde. I’ve been attached to Jeff Burroughs (Had a poster of him up in my room as a kid…all the while knowing that […]

Buck O’Neil

March 2, 2006.Reading time 4 minutes.

Mar/01/2006 08:08 AM Filed in: HSOs from a Bitter P1 Like many folks, I didn’t really know of Buck before the famous Ken Burn’s documentary. But after that aired, it felt like Buck was an old friend. Buck lives in Kansas City, and has been a champion for the players of the old Negro League […]