The games start tonight so it is way past time to give you my predictions for the 2026 MLB season. Regular readers know that these rarely come to pass for me but I enjoy the public humiliation every year. As always, this is just for entertainment value, no wagering. Let's get the easy stuff out of the way first. CY Young - NL - Paul Skenes; AL - Tarik Skubal MVP - NL - Alex Bregman; AL - Bobbie Witt ROY - NL - Konner Giffin; AL - Kevin McGonigle Now for the bold guesses.

I want to thank all those that reached out to wish me a speedy recovery and to all those that wished I would just go away, too bad, you lost again. Apparently it is going to take more than two surgeons and ten nurses and support staff to bring me down, no matter how hard they tried. It has now been two weeks since my simple surgery turned exciting and this week for the first time since, I actually feel normal again. I said I was 99.9% to an old friend and he said I've never b

Sadly, today we had to say good-bye to our sixth and final dog, Ellie. Here she is pictured above in what was her usual position for the past five or six months. She had dementia, incontinence, arthritis, she was blind, deaf, and only walked in circles to the right. It was time. As a youngster she was full of it, just like every Jack Russell, ever. Aside from the usual scraps, breaks, and issues, our favorite story of her is that she wasn't eating like usual and was lethargic

Nine years and one month ago I was admitted into Eisenhower Medical Center because I just didn't feel right. Ten hours later I was in recovery after getting two stents inserted into my arteries by Dr. Khanna. After the trauma of surgery faded by the next day, I felt like a million bucks and better than I had felt in forty years. My cardiologist at the time told me that everything I had done the previous night kept me from being dead before I hit the floor. Sometimes it's good