Thanks, Blue!: Notes from The Youth Diamond
Thanks Blue!Documenting the 2025 season, as an umpire for youth baseball and softball
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It's Supposed to Be Fun
That’s it. Sports is broken. Not cracked, not starting to creak – just absolutely, totally, broken.
Forget professional sports. I don’t even care anymore. That’s been permanently conceded to corporate sponsored, omnipresent, legal gambling...
Gotta Know the Rules
So you think you've got it figured out
It don't come easy, maybe just for fools
Some say life is a struggle now, it's a game now
Just gotta know the rules
Gotta know the rules
Social Distortion’s super grungy 1996 single “Gotta Kno...
Follow the Sun
One day you'll look to see I've gone
For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun
Growing up in Stamford, CT, an old baseball town, my young baseball career was full of characters - larger than life, you couldn’t make them up, made for...
Welcome back
And I know what a scene
You were learnin’ in
Was there somethin’ that
Made you come back again?
And what could ever lead you
(What could ever lead you)
Back here where we need you?
(Back here where we need you?)
Yeah, we tease...
See You In September
I made it. The August break, writing this at the end of the first full week without a single game since late March. A great time to wrap up the last few weeks, and reflect on the season as a whole - all 100 games of it.
After Nationals, I...
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