by DrLefty When DrLefty was a little Girl Scout, she went to summer camp every year. First there was day camp between second and third grade and then sleep-away camp for a number of years after that. We used to sing this “Camp Grenada” song around our campfires. …
by DrLefty After all of these weeks and months, I finally get to write a baseball post based on current events. 2020 Training Camp 2.0 opens this week at Oracle Park in San Francisco. No more messing around with sim games, Chalk Talks, and podcasts. Actual baseball news. I can…
by DrLefty I didn’t post yesterday mainly because I was having a lazy Saturday, but I also kept hoping there’d be some breaking news about the 2020 season. The last week or two has given this diehard fan a serious case of whiplash (from all the head-shaking and face-palming, get…
by DrLefty A couple of years ago, I mentioned on Facebook about writing for TWG as “DrLefty.” One of my Facebook friends, a well-known scholar in our field, contacted me and said she was editing a special issue of a journal on “academic writers doing ‘everyday’ writing,” and she thought…
by DrLefty I have questions. I have questions about whether Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi actually knows what he’s doing or is in over his head. I have questions about whether the previous era was a success (three World Series trophies!) or a failure (a losing record in…
by DrLefty When I was a little girl, my favorite books were in the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. My mother read them aloud to me and then I was, over several Christmases and birthdays, gifted with the complete set of 1950s hardbacks with the gorgeous Garth Williams…
by DrLefty Well, it’s next week, and we still don’t know the fate of the 2020 baseball season. The owners finally delivered a proposal to the MLB Players Association, suggesting a sliding scale of salaries for a season that would start around July 4 weekend and be about 82 games…
by DrLefty Memorial Day weekend is traditionally the kickoff for summer. Most colleges and many schools are done for the year, workers have a long weekend, and it’s a good time to either take a road trip or start firing up the grill. We have typically grilled burgers on the…
by DrLefty The Orange Friday Sim Giants beat the Braves at Oracle Park last night, 4-1. Logan Webb started for the Giants and went five innings, giving up one run on three hits with seven strikeouts. The Giants did all of their damage in the bottom of the seventh with…
by DrLefty I know a lot of the sports-starved U.S. world has actually been watching Korean or Taiwanese baseball in the middle of the night or even replayed the next day, but I honestly can’t get into it. Partly it’s because I’m still very busy at work, need my sleep,…