by mike | Oct 5, 2026 | Baseball, Comedy/sci-fi, Humor, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
At various times during my six-book (soon to be seven) comedy/sci-fi series featuring cosmic bike rider Jack Miller (my alter ego), I have him stating my own personal mantra. Neither of us intend to depart this plane of existence until the San Diego Padres have won a...
by mike | Apr 13, 2026 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
As a baseball purist, I initially had some issues with the changes that have come to Major League Baseball over the last decade or so. But I gradually got used to the pitch clock, which I hardly notice anymore, the three-batter rule for relief pitchers, and—to a...
by mike | Mar 23, 2026 | Aging, Baseball, Death, Life, Uncategorized, Writing |
(Balm: anything that heals, soothes, or mitigates pain.) In a couple of weeks it will be two years since I lost Jacqueline, my beloved bride, to demon cancer. Devastated? I’m sure you can imagine. For a time, I thought I’d follow close behind. So how did I survive the...
by mike | Oct 13, 2025 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
A few days ago the Sports section of our local newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, ran an article about former big league ballplayer Kurt Bevacqua. Playing for the Padres during the 1984 World Series, Bevacqua hit a three-run homer in Game 2 against the Detroit...
by mike | Jun 30, 2025 | Baseball, Humor, Quotes, Sports, Uncategorized |
Sure, I’ve been a San Diego Padres fanatic even before moving to SoCal in 1973. But I grew up in The Bronx, and as a kid I lived and died with the Yankees. My heroes were Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Elston Howard, Roger Maris—and the great Yogi Berra, a catcher with a...
