Yesterday came the news that Mark McGwire will be joining the St. Louis Cardinals as their new hitting coach. Much of the news centered around ongoing – and very probable – speculation that McGwire used performance enhancing drugs during his career. But hey, as Big Mac would say to Congress, I’m not here to talk [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Ah, the playoffs. Baseball’s annual fall rite of passage. Typically, the postseason is something to look forward to. This year’s been a little different, though. Usually, there’s a team or two I like gunning for the World Series, but the offerings have been a little slim this fall. Trying to choose a team to root [...]
Back from the Bermuda Triangle
Posted: 20th October 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: chronicles of the marginally employed
Late, great sportswriter Jim Murray once wrote after an extended absence: I feel I owe my friends an explanation as to where I’ve been all these weeks. Believe me, I would rather have been in a press box. In Murray’s case, he had been temporarily out of work because he had had to have one [...]