Tuesday 9/9/25 I'm now of the belief that Aroldis Chapman should be the AL Cy Young award winner, allowing that he keeps up what he's...

Monday 9/8/25 Watched the Patriots get it handed to them yesterday in a game that was not as close as the final score suggested, which...

Sunday 9/7/25 Went to Charlestown yesterday all rarin' to go and do ten circuits in the Monument. I'd worked on a story, written a piece...

Saturday 9/6/25 More mortar but a tidy morning--thus far--and I will touch on yesterday morning, too. Further work this morning on...

Friday 9/5/25 I have all of these entries to get up on here. Entries that are about one primary thing. Idea. Person. Place. The intention...

Tuesday 9/2/25 There's an old baseball maxim that one should never make the first or third out of an inning at third base. But you know...

Saturday 8/30/25 On Thursday I was in Charlestown standing outside of the main door of the Bunker Hill Monument waiting for it to open in...

Saturday 8/30/25 There isn't an actual single accurate answer to the question of who is baseball's most underrated player, and even if...

Wednesday 8/27/25 Paul Skenes is going to win the NL Cy Young award with a record under .500, isn't he? He will win it, whatever his...

Monday 8/25/25 Well, I need to get back to this journal, don't I? I've been away a lot, because I've not been doing much. It's harder and...

Wednesday 8/20/25 I had an op-ed on stairs run (you get it) in the New York Daily News, which I wasn't aware of until well after the...

Friday 8/8/25 I've taken a while in getting to this, but didn't want to leave it any longer so that I can move on with other matters...

Wednesday 8/6/25 This will suffice for now. More later. Here is a letter I sent today to Rebecca Barden, who is the editor of...

Wednesday 8/6/25 All the Boston Red Sox do is win! Okay, so I'm exaggerating, but they have won seven in a row and just as importantly,...

Friday 8/1/25 I've had a tough time getting going lately. I'm not writing enough. There's so much to do and it feels like there is so...

Thursday 7/31/25 A most curious thing--well, to me--has blanketed the New England region here in the doggiest days of summer, this...

Thursday 7/31/25 It was ninety-eight degrees (which set a record for the day), but I was heartened on Tuesday to see that the fall decor...

Thursday 7/31/25 Shannon Sharpe is a rapist, and all of these people--including lots of women--take to social media to remark that this...

Sunday 7/27/25 Fascinating game yesterday between the Dodgers and Red Sox at Fenway, especially when we go inside the numbers. The...

Saturday 7/26/25 The Red Sox lost the first game of their series against the Dodgers at Fenway last night. No surprises there. The Red...

Friday 7/25/25 The Monument will be closed today on account of the heat. Thought this would be a good time to take stock. Ran ten more...

Thursday 7/24/25 The Red Sox-Cubs game was on the other night when my mom was at my sister's babysitting the kids. She went to put it on,...

Thursday 7/24/25 The Red Sox had catcher's interference called against them again on Tuesday in their loss to the Phillies for the eighth...

Wednesday 7/23/25 The "Pay us what you owe us" demand of WNBA players ought to be something I find mystifying, just as I ought to find it...