Pete Rose will be reinstated. He will admit to betting on baseball, thereby showing the contrition his detractors demand. Unfortunately, most of these people never covered a actual criminal trial and do not realize that Major League Baseball’s case is week. I don’t see reliable evidence Pete bet on baseball. This will clear the way […]

The Evanston (Ill.) Express interviewed Chicago Tribune sportswriter Andy Bagnato, who came across sounding spoiled and lazy:
“If you want to cure yourself of the love of baseball, become a baseball reporter,” Bagnato said. “Baseball players are easily the worst athletes to deal with. They have an extremely limited world view, and they don’t have […]

I am not going to participate in the “childish” Blogger snowball fight. But I will recount a funny snowball story from my youth. Here in Peoria, we get a lot of snow. We used to wait at the bus stop at the corner of Frye and Wisconsin avenues and as soon as the bus would […]