By Ken Napzok Let’s get personal. I grew up — and still very much am — a New York Yankee fan. I know. I get it. A large percentage of you just cursed my name and stopped reading. Fair enough. I apologize for all the winning they did in the 1920s. And 1930s. And 1940s. And 1950s. Annnddd I’m not helping. (Though at the time … Continue reading THE BIG HIT | Congrats Expos *Ahem* Nationals
by Ken Napzok “I love playoff baseball!” is a sentence — correction proclamation — we’ve all heard a lot this past week. Since the Wild Card games on October 1st, the baseball world has been treated to some absolutely thrilling postseason play. Throw all those fancy words best saved for a Roger Kahn baseball book at the wall because all of them will stick. This … Continue reading 5 Things the 2019 Division Series Round Taught Us (that we can pretend we always knew)
by Ken Napzok What a season the first week of the playoffs was. Big time pitching, clutch hitting, and the cream looking like it’s rising to the top. The 2019 postseason has already been a buffet of greatness for even the most discerning baseball aficionado. This is what your childhood baseball dreams are made of. But what really makes a great postseason? What is the … Continue reading THE BIG HIT | High Stakes, Going Home, and the Magic Recipe of the Postseason
By Ken Napzok As the regular season comes to a close, we can start to look back at the season that was and find all the great moments that we’ll remember forever. Our thoughts also begin to turn to the awards and the players that we feel — ah nuts to all of this — IT’S TIME FOR THE PLAY-OFFS. It is the duty of … Continue reading THE BIG HIT | The ONLY Postseason Preview You Need
by Ken Napzok Oh, the agony of the baseball. These players work so hard and play for so long and then — boom — a fastball catches the meat of a bat and it all comes crashing down. The cheers turn to jeers and hope fades long before the opposing player rounds third. That’s baseball. The wonderful agony of baseball. What happened this weekend in … Continue reading THE BIG HIT | The Agony of Baseball
by Ken Napzok If you look to the horizon you can see the Major League Baseball post-season rolling into town like a traveling circus ready to dazzle and delight us. The audience favorites are preparing to enter the three-ring circus and add to the history books of this great game. In a season of astounding offense, second-generation future stars, and the general baseball audience learning … Continue reading The Big Hit | The Coming Battle of the Titans
by Ken Napzok September baseball is here. The air is getting crisp and sharp. Playoff runs are picking up or dying on the vine. The last of the 40-man roster call ups are making their dreams come true. And the long journey of a baseball season is about to reward those that have been on the adventure from the start. It all comes into focus. … Continue reading The Big Hit | Of Homers and No-N0’s…
Just another day in the New York Mets clubhouse. Mets manager, Mickey Callaway and Jason Vargas got into it with a reporter who was asking questions in the clubhouse. The Mets skipper was none too please with a comment uttered by one of the beat writers and started getting a snippy with the press and that’s when the volume got turned way up. Callaway cursed … Continue reading Mets’ Jason Vargas Threatens to Knock Out Reporter
Mike Trout continues his form with his 14th blast of the year. Trout has 238 doubles, 253 home runs, 195 stolen bases, and 743 walks in his career so far. No other player in MLB history has bested all of those categories through their 27 year old season. No one. Trout is still in his 27 year old season, too. Continue reading Mike Trout Murders Another Baseball
God damn son! Houston Astros’ Josh Reddick made one of the most clutch catches of the MLB season during the Astros’ 4-2 win on Thursday night by climbing the right-field wall and robbing Hunter Pence of what would have been a go-ahead three-run home run in the ninth inning. The catch stunned the Rangers, thrilled the crowd at Minute Maid Park and lifted the Astros … Continue reading His name is Josh Reddick
