Tuesday 6/20/23 Compete. With. Me. On a level playing field. Imagine if it came to that in an industry determined not to let it? Want to...

Tuesday 6/20/23 Below are two images that I grabbed recently that double as writing on the wall and indication of what the people of...

Monday 6/19/23 When Bobby Grich played, there was no one--and I mean no one--who talked about him as a potential future Hall of Famer....

Monday 6/19/23 There’s this woman on Facebook I can’t stand, which is a statement that comes with a caveat, because I can’t stand anyone...

Monday 6/19/23 I had been planning an entry in these pages for some time on Cormac McCarthy, who died the other day. Had he been, say,...

Monday 6/19/23 Luis Aparicio led the league in stolen base nine times. He's a member of the Hall of Fame first and foremost for his...

Friday 6/16/23 Charisma is a virtually non-existent trait now I've noticed. People don't have it. Nor is there anyone you look at and...

Friday 6/16/23 I was talking to someone last night who is one of the two people I talk to the most. They have as much of a view into my...

Thursday 6/15/23 It's far too bright at this time of year. Messes me up. Sleep cycle-wise. Larry Gura was another pitcher who was in the...

Thursday 6/15/23 J: You wrote that this morning? C: Yeah. I shouldn't have. J: What's that mean? C: I should have been doing other...

Wednesday 6/14/23 Tonight it was spitting and I went down to the harbor to think about what I must do and to regather. No one was out by...

Wednesday 6/14/23 I like old train tracks in the woods that have been mossed over. AI will bring people back from the dead in a way that...

Wednesday 6/14/23 Often, if you give someone the slightest provocation--and I'll do this just as an experiment--they will begin to praise...

Wednesday 6/14/23 We are going to use the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls for this exercise. This is an example of a fact: The 1995-96 Chicago...

Tuesday 6/13/23 I like seeing photos of men who are my age because often they look old enough to be my father. It's impossible to...

Tuesday 6/13/23 Much more important things coming, but I would like to recognize how abysmal the Red Sox' defense is. How can you be this...

Tuesday 6/13/23 Worked more yesterday on "What the Mouse Knew." I estimate that I've probably put in 100 hours with this story that is...

Monday 6/12/23 Time works such that how things happened tend to get lost and the only way to know what those things were is to go back...

Monday 6/12/23 Itemization of what I'll be discussing the next few times on Downtown. Tuesday 6/13 Gene Vincent. His 1956 debut album...

Sunday 6/11/23 Got up late again. This is not going to work. Then I worked for five hours on "What the Mouse Knew," a story I have now...

Sunday 6/11/23 Well--I must say: I was very surprised to learn that Chris Sale was placed on the 60-day IL and probably is done for the...

Sunday 6/11/23 Out here in the country, especially in winter, many mice live like this mouse lives. Some of them hope that the sounds...

Sunday 6/11/23 I didn't know that Glenn Davis played in the Cape Cod League. Saw yesterday that he is a member of the 2023 CCBL Hall of...

Saturday 6/10/23 This entry serves to wipe the chalkboard clean and get started in a new week and work harder than ever. Yesterday I...