Goats, you say? Well, it’s kind of like a rain delay, so kick back and I’ll be write with you.
My Latest Posts
- What I Am Reading Now, November 2025I generally read less during Daylight Savings Time. It’s easy to be outside walking, playing catch, grilling dinner with a beer, gokfing with my son, or watching my daughter play tennis. Reading in sips is the norm. When the clocks return to Standard Time my reading shifts to larger gulps. It’s not always the case,… Read more: What I Am Reading Now, November 2025
- Golf PartnerWANTED: A golfer that… Prefers to walk and enjoys well-routed rustic natural courses. Listens to the sounds of nature rather than music. Willingness to occasionally play old clubs long past their prime, including hickories and persimmons. Prefers burgers and beer in the pub over elegant dining room meals. Keeps a brisk pace and encouraging attitude.… Read more: Golf Partner
- What’s Your Favorite Baseball Team?What’s your favorite baseball team? It is one of my favorite questions to ask because I love all things baseball, but it’s not really that first question that’s the most fun. I love to ask why. When they answer the team, which ranges from the Yankees to the Phillies, there is often a twinkle of… Read more: What’s Your Favorite Baseball Team?
- The Beattitudes of Fantasy BaseballAlthough you can win your fantasy baseball season by focusing on rosters, ADP, and downloading data from Baseball Reference dot com, at the expense of your wife, children, and boss for a month before the draft, I think there is a better way. It just takes a holistic approach espoused by the Jesuit priests from… Read more: The Beattitudes of Fantasy Baseball
- Preparing for the Great Fantasy Baseball DraftJust as every national election is the most important election of our lifetimes, so goes the fantasy baseball draft. The competition is fierce. All the fantasy baseball team owners love baseball. For the majority of them, it’s the only sport they seriously care about. And it is serious. For this group, the Dave Barry joke… Read more: Preparing for the Great Fantasy Baseball Draft
- Alexandria, VirginiaSome tragic news made my heart beat erratically for my old home. Not Buffalo, where I grew up, but the place I intentionally chose to live later and where I bought my first home. It was Alexandria, Virginia, and up until the end, I was thinking about staying forever. So why is it so special?… Read more: Alexandria, Virginia
- Music and the MomentI have been finding it harder to appreciate music today, with the way we connect with music today, through Spotify and Amazon Music. Toronto’s 103.3 The Edge was the best radio station when I was growing up. It played things my friends listening to our local Buffalo station didn’t have. they played music by Metric,… Read more: Music and the Moment
- Strong DrinkYou drink it in glasses, tumblers, cans, bottles, and flasks. You receive it as gifts, exchanges in buying rounds, and run tabs. You partake in pubs and bars, and eateries, and restaurants, and distilleries and breweries, because distilleries and breweries have kitchens these days. With pizza, burgers, pasta, certain alcoholic beverages taste better with certain… Read more: Strong Drink
- Countdown to PTO… and ChristmasThree days before Christmas, Natalie and I were driving home across a few counties, and we took stock of the busting-at-seams full parking lots at the malls and modern plazas. After passing several such shopping areas, she asked, thinking aloud, if the shoppers ever just said, “I’m done, I don’t need to keep looking.” I… Read more: Countdown to PTO… and Christmas
- Winter MeetingsWhen I say “Winter Meetings” I am referring to the convention held every December by the owners and managers, baseball players and their agents, and the beat reporters of Major League Baseball. With the World Series now settled for about a month, I am no longer dormant about daydreaming about spring training news and planning… Read more: Winter Meetings
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