Chris Pellegrini and I started fairly regularly attending games together in the 2004 season. Like many other fans, we set out to watch a ballgame and instead engaged in a series of lamentations on the future of the sport punctuated by sudden cheers or exasperated sighs, maybe even a rendition or two of “Tokyo Ondo” [...]

No baseball. Lots of work. Here’s a throwaway post to tide everyone over. When I first met our own David Watkins in the stands at Jingu, I was impressed at the breadth and depth of his baseball knowledge, not to mention his enthusiasm for the game. After all, baseball has about the fan base of [...]