WORLD SERIES 2015 AND MORE...HAROLD REYNOLDS BAR NONE BEST TV BASEBALL COMMENTATOR

by far.


was going to write this months ago but did not.


hearing Harold The Man call a certain starting pitcher in tonight's second WS game The Man with the Hair, I had to fire up this writing implement and write.


fyi, like Verducci, who also knows his stuff, I too have written for SI.


Go to www.si.com/vault and search for Paul Heidelberg Ernest Hemingway for my SI Sportsman of the Year story on Hem's Key West Years, when he regularly sparred with two guys I interviewed in Key West years ago, James Roberts and Kermit Forbes aka Geech. Geech took a punch at Hemingway when Hem was refereeing a Key West prizefight. Great story Geech told.


OK Harold is speaking well of the hairy one as I write; time to get back to the game.


Ciao y A...I learned that years ago while living in Italia.


Go Astros. They represent the city where I graduated from HS a few years ago.


once a sportswriter always a sportswriter I guess. here's to my old boss fred turner who hired me and mitch albom about the same time at the sun-sentinel newspaper in fort lauderdale.


btw my novel COOK'S RETURN A NOVEL OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY is being published this year.


it is about art and artists not sports but there are similarities.


P.S. mention on tv of guy in AA earlier this year and now in world series...wow baseball.


Heidi aka Pablo aka Paolo aka Paul

Triple Crown Celebratory Bike Ride

Today for me, first "Post" bike ride in "many moons."


As first Triple Crown winning jockey in 37 years, great Sports Desk Editor Craig Stanke and this writer like to say:


HOLY MERDE (avec Frenchie-language clean-up [hyphens "in honor" of Stanke's and Heidelberg's "service" at  The Miami Herald before our stints with the always-great Sun-Sentinel "Top Dog" Sports Editor Fred Turner]).


PH/NM Monday, Ocho de Junio -- Espanol in tribute to the big not little Mexican jockey, and isn't that a remarkable and most memorable horse, American Pharoah.

The 2014 MLB World Series Title

is what Brandon Crawford might have also wanted (see previous post).


Great work by all the Giants! I guess I'd call them my home team, or one of a few home teams
as I lived in San Fran for six years and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute.


There was no baseball or other sports teams at the SFAI, only a basketball hoop in the new modern addition that always kicked my butt.


The art institute is located a good San Fran walk from the Giants ball park. Oh, as I wrote in  my novel CHASING FREEDOM, you don't call it Frisco unless you are a Hell's Angel and you are wearing your colors. I mean it.


OK San Fran, celebrate!


And one more important note today: Happy Birthday, Jeanette -- Heidi

Brandon Crawford becomes first shortstop in MLB history to hit a grand slam

homer in a playoff game.


Talk about history. What more could you want in life, Man?


Remember all that pregame bs about the noisy Pirates fans? All it took was one swing of the bat by Crawford to shut up those fans as the Giants beat the Pirates 8-0 in last night's game.

Derek Jeter Poem

A post worth repeating on this day when Derek Jeter is scheduled to be the DH in a game against the Boston Red Sox starting in less than an hour that comes soon after his amazing final at bat at Yankees Stadium.

NEW YORK: AUTUMN 2001 Up from the ashes with a toss from Jeter coming from nowhere to save the game and the season (the best play ever?), The Men in Pinstripes rising from the dust of buildings and lost lives, The American Spirit resurrected with The Sport of Baseball and The New York Yankees and The Miracle at Home. (October 18, 2001)



Derek Jeter: The Best Play Ever?/One Of The Best Players Ever

Hail to Derek Jeter!



Here is a poem I wrote soon after 9/11.

If you remember, the New York Yankees came up short that year, but during the team's efforts to win the World Series, Jeter made a play that helped ease the scars of 9/11 -- for New Yorkers and the whole country. If this guy can do this, maybe things aren't so bad, one might have thought.

That is the best play ever? part of the above subject line.

One of the best players ever has to do with Jeter being tied with Hank Aaron for the most consistent 150-hit seasons, 17.

Aaron's remarkable achievement covered the years 1955 to 1971. Jeter's began in 1996 and continued into the 2012 season.

For both men, the feat is truly astounding.

Also, hail to my old Executive Sports Editor Fred Turner at my old Florida daily newspaper, who gave me a sports job when I really needed it. Note: about the same time, he also hired a certain Mitch Albom, giving him a fulltime job after the freelance work he had been doing (Mitch didn't drive back in those days -- I would give him rides home late at night in my 1967 VW Beetle that had a '73 Super Beetle engine with Kadron exhaust that had more horsepower than a '55 Porsche my mechanicc Marshall Painter told me).

NEW YORK: AUTUMN 2001 Up from the ashes with a toss from Jeter coming from nowhere to save the game and the season (the best play ever?), The Men in Pinstripes rising from the dust of buildings and lost lives, The American Spirit resurrected with The Sport of Baseball and The New York Yankees and The Miracle at Home. (October 18, 2001)

NFL Preseason Football : So Far, So Good

This year's preseason football games seem to be of a higher caliber; example: the recent Giants-Jaguars game.

Maybe it is the economy -- these guys need jobs. And for most of the rookies the economy was screwy throughout their college careers. And now done with college, there aren't many parks & recs jobs they can fall back on.

-- Heidi