Clutch: Of Closers and Kickers
I’m going to borrow from the laziest of tropes for speeches and articles and drop in a dictionary definition for the intro to this post: clutch noun (DIFFICULT SITUATION) US a difficult and important situation that needs a lot of skill to deal with successfully: “This team was able to perform in the clutch every […]
THAT Ronny Rosenthal Hat-Trick
The 1994-95 season is the first that I have actual, tangible memories of football from. Oddly, neither are actually of the football action itself but instead both are recalling the emotions I felt sitting on the upper stairs (I lived in a townhouse with 2 separate sets of stairs) reacting to formative moments in my […]
Swing and a drive. Belted right…
Baseball is a sport that thrives on its history. The hall of fame ballot is an annual cacophony of debate, statistical milestones are tracked and followed with more fervour than some religions, and moments of note are known by single words or phrases. The catch The streak The called shot Mr October Baseball is nothing […]
Going Slow
Sport loves speed. For a decade or so the world seemed to collectively lose its mind every time Usain Bolt took to the track. In baseball there are blog posts seeking advice for which radar gun to buy to track your son’s pitches in high school, the whole damn industry of motorsport is built around […]
The Chess Match of Baseball
There is something I find tricky to explain about the thing that I love the most about baseball. When talking to English friends of mine and trying to link it to football, I always come back to a penalty kick. The taker is in the mind of the goalie and vice versa – they are […]