In a baseball game last week in St. Louis, Cardinals manager Mike Shildt brought in relief pitcher Génesis Cabrera in the sixth inning. Cabrera’s first pitch hit Phillie Bryce Harper in the face. New batter Didi Gregorius stepped into the…
Wow. That didn’t take long. The nation is used to Major League Baseball and other sports leagues rolling over for whatever phantasms the political and cultural Left comes up with. But now they do it at hyper-speed. President Biden had…
With the Major League Baseball season getting underway (on April Fool’s day — is there a message here?), millions of fans of the Grand Old Game, including me, hoped against hope that on-field politics would not disfigure the game we…
The America-the-Terrible disease has now invaded baseball, the sport that to this point had mostly avoided the current race obsession that threatens to turn the American melting pot into a pressure cooker. In a Monday evening exhibition game between the…
Sheltering in place has hardly been onerous chez Thornberry so far. The fridge and pantry are chock full. We have ample supplies of beer and wine, along with a bit of single malt and about a half bottle of Early Times….
Tampa Stu Sternberg, principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays of the American League East, held a press conference Tuesday afternoon, ostensibly to clarify and sell his idea of splitting his team’s home games between a new ballpark somewhere in…
Tampa Silliness, pretention, greed, mendacity, and guile stalk the land. No, no, no, I’m not talking about the reinforced platoon of Democrats who have announced their desire to be America’s next president, though this scrum is guilty of all of…
Hillary Clinton spun the Russia collusion story upon her loss. Heck, she was blabbing about Russia in the last debate with candidate Donald Trump in October of 2016. Hillary Clinton employed Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS: In an interview with NBC…
It’s done now and the Big Questions have been answered, chief among them being would Scott Boras, Bryce Harper’s pit bull agent, allow young Bryce to sign a contract before the All-Star Game ballots were printed. The other BQ was…
