Monday 9/22/25 The Red Sox had a golden opportunity to boost their chances of getting into the playoffs last night and they couldn't do...

Sunday 9/21/25 Red bird. Soon in the morning, red bird. Amazing performance , that is. In my head most days. Awoke today and began work...

Friday 9/18/25 I fear we're watching the end of the Red Sox season, one which will not include any October baseball. With their loss to...

Thursday 9/18/25 Orson Welles made his debut on the radio program The Shadow  on September 26, 1937, when he was twenty-two, playing...

Wednesday 9/17/25 An exchange from yesterday into today. To me: Yes, I do remember the Guggenheim post. What a world of self promoting...

Wednesday 9/17/25 The poem you write isn't supposed to be about you. Nor the song. The story. The book. It's supposed to be about other...

Wednesday 9/17/25 I don't think DiMaggio's fifty-six game hit streak is an unbreakable record as everyone else does. You need to be...

Tuesday 9/16/25 I'm writing a book called The Diamond Mirror: Baseball History as Life (Essays) . It begins with essays about my man Dave...

Monday 9/15/25 People ride into North Fork to take on Lucas McCain. They ask around to find out where he is, get the info, go to that...

Sunday 9/14/25 It's happening with the Red Sox. The fall. They're in trouble now. Only two games up for the final Wild Card spot. Alex...

Saturday 9/13/25 We've made ours a world in which people are only capable of being interested in themselves, despite virtually no one now...

Thursday 9/11/25 Obviously Charlie Kirk was a terrible person. You know what? Most people--almost all--are terrible people. If you think...

Thursday 9/11/25 It's three in the morning. I'm working. I stopped and took a look at Threads. One look. Two minutes. If you're not an...

Tuesday 9/9/25 This is good. Written this morning. Despite what’s tantamount to a subgenre of macabre offerings suggesting otherwise,...

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...