PitchCom: No more shaking off signals

It has slowly dawned on me over this baseball season that a ritual component of the game has gone the way of barehanded fielders. What’s missing? The pitcher shaking off signs from the catcher on which pitch to throw. PitchCom, the secure way for hurlers to get instructions on the next pitch from the catcher […]

Another manager bites the dust

The Philadelphia Phillies fired Rob Thomson as manager today, an inevitable outcome after the Phils got off to a terrible start to the 2026 season. Never mind that Thompson guided the Fightin’ Phils to winning records under his tutelage for the four previous seasons. An ugly 9-11 start doomed Thomson, who I hope gets another […]

Princeton baseball drops a wild one to Wagner

With a two-team total of 28 hits and 27 runs, the Wagner-at-Princeton baseball game had plenty of action over 3 hours and 40 minutes of play. Wagner took an early lead, lost it, then reclaimed it to win 16-11. I roamed the sidelines as I always do, but today was the first time I shot […]

A nice day for Princeton baseball in New York City

Princeton entered its weekend series with Columbia on a nine-game losing streak, and the Tigers were able to break free in the first game of the Saturday doubleheader. They dropped the nightcap, and I went into New York for the third and final game of the series. The Lions play at Robertson Field at Satow […]

Saying “no” to Wisco, and other City Connect musings

Major League Baseball released (unleashed?) its latest round of City Connect uniforms today, and I’ve passed the point where I reflexively reject them all. But I have not surrendered my First Amendment right to gripe about the new Brewers’ duds with “Wisco” lettering emblazoned on the jerseys. Yes, Brewers marketing team, I understand your wanting […]

A tough weekend for Princeton Tigers baseball

Yale pulled into Princeton on Friday for a three-game series against the host Tigers. The Bulldogs were ungracious guests, you might say, as they swept the three-game series. The games were hard fought, and Princeton nearly pulled off a victory in the finale during Saturday’s doubleheader. Chased by what turned out to be a brief […]

Baseball’s “Opening Night”? We can do better

Generally, I’m a modern, progressive guy. When it comes to baseball, I tend more toward paleolithic traditionalist. Consider Opening Day or, as we are experiencing it this year, Opening Night. Let’s play in the sunshine, shall we? I have nothing against a few night games on Opening Day, as long as some of the games […]

Princeton opens the Ivy League baseball season

After its annual season-opening road trips to the South, the Princeton baseball team opened the Ivy League season at home over the weekend, splitting a series 2-1 with Cornell. The Tigers banged out hit after hit to sweep the Saturday doubleheader 13-7 and 12-0 but dropped the finale to the Big Red 6-3 on Sunday. […]

The soothing sounds of Spring Training

I spent the previous two days watching the snow fall and a few hours shoveling during and after the Nor’easter storm that blanketed much of the Northeast. Post-shoveling, through the MLB app on my iPhone I was able to catch some of the glorious sounds of opening weekend for Spring Training. Actually, I heard a […]

A game from my youth: NFL Strategy

It’s Championship Sunday in the National Football League, and it’s snowing heavily at home in New Jersey. Small wonder that I got the urge to pull out one of the tabletop games I played in my high school days during winters in snowy Cleveland — NFL Strategy. Introduced in 1970 by Tudor, the company that […]