For The LIke of The Game

  A couple of days ago, I was talking to a front office guy with the Bulls about how I got propositioned to write an article about life on the famous Durham Bulls baseball club. I said that I wanted to write about what minor league life is really like (a bad...

Durham Can’t Drive

The people of Durham can’t drive. Well, most of them can’t. Well, maybe it’s just the ones on the road when I am because it’s pretty frick’n uncanny how every time I drive here I wish more and more that my CRV was less a budget conscious import and more like something...

The Clubby Starter Kit

Here you’ll find all the stuff you need to start your first club house food catering business: Cheeseballs— an absolute must, the bigger the barrel, the better— animal crackers, pretzel rods, Twizzlers, candy, and, of course, the staple of any minor league diet;...

Garfoose’s First Photoblog

I’ve been wanting to write on this here blog more often, but it’s not always convient to sit down and write full length articles about the crazy stuff that goes on in my head. Beyond that, some of the stuff that goes on in there can’t be properly...

Showing Your Teeth

Hanz was pissed, and he should have been. It’s not every day the field coordinator tells you that, yes, your suspicions are correct, he’s racist and the reason Hanz is going back to rookie ball while a certain inexperienced, less talented Latin player is heading up to...

Work and Worry

I can still see myself in that hotel room in Birmingham, in pain from stuff I’m not supposed to be feeling pain from, wondering if I’ll sleep tonight or just lie there wanting to go to sleep but not able to like I have the last 5 nights before it. That’s when the want...