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 6, 2026 | Aging, Baseball, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Yes indeed, hard to believe, but today (March 6th) marks eighty years that I have walked the Earth. That’s a few decades short of Bilbo Baggins when he left for Rivendell on his birthday, but close enough. Good grief, how did this happen? Some years back my wonderful...
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 | Oct 15, 2018 | Baseball, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
With the MLB playoffs in full swing and the World Series looming (please, Great Spirit, not with the Dodgers!), I thought it might be fun to visit a few quotes from some of the most popular baseball movies. Having seen just about every one ever made, I’m sure it would...
