Author: J T. Ramsay

Tipping My Hat to Zoo With Roy

This may be the most elo­quent, poignant piece I’ve read about Roy Hal­la­day’s no hit­ter any­where. You’re a class act, ZWR,you mag­nif­i­cent donkey.

My take? What’s left to be said? He was exact­ly who we expect­ed him to be all sea­son long. He put the team on his back dur­ing the reg­u­lar sea­son and he does­n’t want to stop there.

I will add this: the love that Roy Hal­la­day and Car­los Ruiz share is a tru­ly beau­ti­ful thing for the game of base­ball. The ela­tion they feel when they accom­plish some­thing spec­tac­u­lar is infec­tious. Is there any­thing more fun than see­ing Chooch’s ear-to-ear grin?

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Welcome to Doctober!

Can­not wait to watch Doc Hal­la­day dis­man­tle the Cincin­nati Reds tonight. I know the talk­ing heads have hyped their staff to death, but they sim­ply don’t match up well.

Here’s hop­ing they can stay away from Joey Vot­to and Jay Bruce to reg­u­late the Reds.

Doc­to­ber starts tonight!

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In Love with Louie

Biggest sur­prise of the sum­mer for this blog­ger? It’s “Louie,” hands down.

Marked improve­ment over “Lucky Louise,” his short-lived show on HBO, which last­ed just a sea­son. His raw standup and wry wit were per­fect­ly blend­ed into a more coher­ent nar­ra­tive detail­ing his dai­ly drag. Love when a come­di­an takes on the big issues, makes fun­ny obser­va­tions, but does­n’t lec­ture the audi­ence. If you missed “Louie” this year, you real­ly missed out.

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It’s Time for Playoff Baseball

First, I want to say con­grat­u­la­tions to our Philadel­phia Phillies for once again defy­ing the odds and fin­ish­ing with the best record in base­ball for the first time in club his­to­ry. It’s no mean feat in any sea­son, let alone one in which the team was sim­ply rav­aged by injuries to key play­ers all year long.

Now our eyes shift to the Phillies next goal, their third World Series appear­ance in as many years. Can they do it again? I’m hop­ing “Doc­to­ber” is every­thing we’ve dreamed and more.

Helen, Char­lie and I are head­ed to the park Fri­day after work for Game 2 of the NLDS. It’ll be Roy Oswalt ver­sus Bron­son Arroyo of the Cincin­nati Reds. I like our chances against the MLB’s old­est squad and I’d frankly be sur­prised if this series went five games. Let’s hope I’m right.

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I’ve Seen a Darkness

Just watched The Promise, a new doc­u­men­tary about Bruce Spring­steen’s Dark­ness on the Edge of Town. I have mixed feel­ings. I’ll be writ­ing about it for Fancast.com this week.

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