by Dr. Lefty | May 2, 2021 | Latest Post, Out of Left Field
For the first time since your Sacramento River Cats won the AAA championship on September 17, 2019, there will be minor league baseball that counts this week. I’m pretty excited about this. Honestly, I expected to be more excited about the minor leagues than...
by Dr. Lefty | Apr 24, 2021 | Latest Post, Out of Left Field
I don’t always watch baseball, but when I do, I prefer the wacky, weird San Francisco Giants. National baseball writers have no idea what to do about the Giants. They are not fitting into the narrative. The Giants rotation has been a surprising strength...
by Dr. Lefty | Apr 17, 2021 | Latest Post, Out of Left Field
While on my walk yesterday, I caught up on my latest Giants-related podcasts–the Baggs and Brisbee podcast (with Andrew Baggarly and Grant Brisbee of The Athletic) and the Giants Talk podcast (with NBCSBA’s Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper, plus guest...
by Dr. Lefty | Apr 11, 2021 | 2021 Season, Latest Post, Out of Left Field, PostGame
I fully anticipated being moved by “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in my first visit to Oracle Park since September 29, 2019 and my first baseball game anywhere since March 8, 2020. I didn’t know I’d be fighting tears from the minute I saw the...
by Dr. Lefty | Apr 3, 2021 | Latest Post, Out of Left Field
Full box here I had a very bad day on Thursday. It started out well. I woke up all excited about Opening Day, had a nice visit with Crawnik, who stopped by on his way home from work, scored tickets to next Saturday’s game at Oracle Park, and had a successful...
by Dr. Lefty | Mar 28, 2021 | Latest Post, Out of Left Field
What a difference a year makes. This time last year, we were mourning, among many other things, a spring without baseball. Now, though things are not quite back to normal, we’re marking the end of a full Cactus League season and eagerly anticipating that...
