Howdy mobsters, and welcome to the emergency call up version of TML. Nick asked last night if I could step in and give TML a few innings to cover a last second roster move. So let’s hope this call up from the Southern League is more Tony Cingrani than...
FROM A TRI-STATE BALLYARD NEAR YOU – Well as much as I’d like to be vacationing with Doc overlooking the North Carolina mountains and having semi-intelligent conversation about the semi-intelligent folks we cover, I volunteered for Mobster Monday. Paul...
Welcome guest TMLer Jason Buelterman to the show: After taking three of four from the down-and-out Cubbies, it has become evident that our mighty Redlegs perform as advertised against the Cub-like squads in the league, but not so much against the teams...
The Morning Man gets cranky(er) if he has to talk Club all day, every day, right off the top. So let’s go with another lead this AM. Gowf, as Shivas Irons would say. (What, you don’ t know Shivas Irons? You absolutely should, even if you don’t know a...
WEBTOGS lives! You might recall about 3 weeks ago, after the Reds dismantled the Mets, the Morning Man making again an obvious distinction between good baseball teams and bad. Good teams do little stuff routinely. Smart stuff that doesnt give the other...
Awaking from a fog of his own, TML thinks weather is cool. Two great examples yesterday, one far more important than the other: Example the 1: The Reds play the Cubs at Wrigley, in fog soup, near the shores of Michigan Lake. The game goes on. Right down...
The Morning Man awakens to the lowing of cows and the ping of rain off the red metal roof at the homeplace. Everyone has a stress-busting activity. Mine is pointing the midlife-crisis red Solara east, and driving 70 miles to the red roof inn, where the...
Editor’s note: Welcome TML guest blogger Tyler Grote stage right. It’s nearly mid-June and my struggle nears an end. In this space, spring only designates the arrival of baseball, golf and gardening. For some of us miserable souls, it signals the beginning...
Reds, Reds, Reds, Reds, Reds… If you live in this region… come from somewhere else and thus arent necessarily a Reds fan… yet still love and follow sports. . . What do you do? If I didnt write about the Reds for a living, I would be a casual Reds watcher...
Fresh from hangin’ with my good friend Oscar Freaking Robertson, The Morning Man is ready to entertain, enlighten, amuse and tell you that the key to life is using your legs on your jumpshot. This truly can be a fine way to make coin. For every day you...