PART II: A Zombie Lawyers Up Can there be pep in a glacial step? The musty corporeal being of 2023 Connie Mack, humming a remix of the 1927 chart-topper “California, Here I Come,” tipped his hat at perplexed receptionist Coco Gentilly on his way out– did old boy just wink at me??– and decamped the …
The Doubled-Up 3 Attaboy Blues
by Michael X. Ferraro A baserunning blunder had clapback like thunder but somehow, for the offending team. Bryce Harper’s brain spasm caused clubhouse sarcasm, now the Braves’ year has run out of steam.
PART I: Corpus Connie Coco Gentilly was about to check “Lost and Found,” because her last good nerve was nowhere to be found. The phone calls today had been more unsettling than usual. Five years ago, she’d figured that taking the job as front-desk receptionist for a Major League Baseball team, the Oakland A’s, would …
Too Swoon
by Michael X. Ferraro Are you sinking in the quickstandings? Does your bullpen perform crash-landings? Were you chattering all through the summer, yet now only muttering “bummer”? Have bad hops invaded your dreams As you wilt against much lesser teams? Do your screamers hook foul or find leather? Is your clean-up man under the weather? …
Attention, Wayne La JuanPierre!
by Michael X. Ferraro Did the lady have too much whiskey? She was howling for “cute Richie Zisky.” While the organ played “Charge!” Annie Oakley loomed large — There’ve been shots fired at former Comiskey!