For many children, baseball is a first love. The feeling of cool green grass on a summer day, tossing the ball around, that first time you really catch it right. On sun-soaked fields all over the world, a new generation finds itself face-to-face with the romance of the game when the weather turns warm and […]
Author: Mark Wilkens
The Voice of Home
“But Moreland can’t run, can’t throw, can’t field, and he’s gotta hit home runs, and he couldn’t do that. He couldn’t hit the warning track. And Chris Brown is Chris Brown. I have been doing this twenty years, covering amateur and professional athletics of all sports…I have never seen an athlete with less desire and […]
Party Like It’s Not 1998
Look, we get it. The Padres have not had much success in the past decade, or even relatively much in the entirety of their existence. Although you can ask any upset fan of any other franchise on Twitter, and they will gladly tell you this, we don’t need a reminder. After all, no one shames […]