Pitching quotes don’t get much more deep or in tune. Summarizing the pitcher’s art in his wonderfully concise manner, baseball’s poet laureate Roger Angell wrote: “Pitching is a tapestry of deceit, experience and efficiency.” TweetTweet

Last year at Super Bowl time I was a guest blogger for the movie review site Flixchatter. This year, instead of ranking my all time favorite football and other sports movies, give you a YouTube montage.

“For any country to be a country, you have to have an air force, a football team and a beer. You can get by without the air force and the football team, but you have to have a beer.” Frank Zappa I was never a big fan of Frank Zappa’s music, and I couldn’t tell [...]

“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.” and “What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” W.C. Fields Thirteen years ago, today, I got married to my wife at Northwestern College in  St. Paul Minnesota. We honyemooned in Tampa, FL and came home to [...]

It kind of reminds me of stories on the internet. You know, just because you see it on the web, does the story that someone posts mean it's true?

“If you’re looking for Denny Green, look on the high road, ’cause that is where you will find me.” - Press conference announcing contract buyout we’ve gotta plan our work and work our plan” “Underwood was a bonus pick” “huh huh huh” (didn’t you love his laugh?) …”It’s not often you get a chance to [...]

I was attending the Matt Blair Celebrity Golf Tournament for Special Olympics at Hazeltine, and I got the opportunity to chat with both Randle and Randall McDaniel during the event.

I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Benjamin Franklin. Rumor has it that Ben also proposed a national brewery! I think he would have been a great baseball fan, but would probably have been a Phillies fan, so screw him. I am kidding, of course, but the quote above [...]

“Treaties are like roses and young girls — they last while they last“ - Charles De Gaulle I am the father of a beautiful little girl, and I have spent much time with her this 4th of July weekend. She is has grown so much in 2 years, (her 2nd birthday is coming up in August). This [...]