TOGETHER WE'RE GIANTS

I have been a serious dog person my whole life, and longtime regulars on TWG know that MrLefty and I had a beloved yellow Lab, Winnie the Pooch, who left us in 2018. But I don't think I've ever mentioned that my very FIRST dog was a German Shepherd. For Christmas the...

Well, the worst has come to pass. Opening Day is cancelled. Our spring training trip is cancelled. There is no end in sight to the lockout that has paralyzed major league baseball. There was one tiny hopeful rumor going around last night....

  Today was supposed to be the first day of spring training games. When you look on the MLB At Bat app, it skips right from November 2021 to March 8, 2022, ignoring games that were supposed to played from Feb. 28-March 7. The Score app, which is not controlled by...

OK, first the bad news. Pitchers and catchers were supposed to report this week. They did not. Spring training games were supposed to start on February 26. They will not. MLB announced yesterday that spring training games through March 4 are cancelled. They also...

I'm struggling, folks. Generating content for Out of Left Field is always harder in the offseason, and it was incredibly hard when things were shut down for months in 2020 due to COVID. This lockout, though, is so disheartening, so discouraging...I'm old enough to...

For baseball fans, this week was discouraging. First, the league and the players' union finally got back into a bargaining meeting--in fact, they had two, on Monday and Tuesday--and it still sounds like the two sides are far apart, talking over each other publicly,...

  It turns out that Brandon Crawford and Mike Krukow have the same birthday, January 21, and that Krukow is exactly 35 years older than Craw. So on Friday, #35 turned 35, and Kruke turned 70!  Happy Birthday to both of them! I saw the amazing photo above on...

Research shows that planning a trip gives people almost as much pleasure as taking the trip itself. That may have been true pre-COVID, but now I'm not so sure. I've had to unravel a couple of great trips since March 2020, and it absolutely takes some of the fun out of...

It's hard to get very enthusiastic about baseball right now. Ahead this weekend are the long-awaited return of Klay Thompson to the NBA and the 49ers' must-win (probably) game against the LA Rams. There hasn't been a whisper of news about anything related to baseball...