Red Barber, the iconic and beloved Dodgers announcer and latter-day avuncular NPR star (and Tallahassee resident), put the lie to the superstition of the no-no moratorium during the 1947 World Series between Brooklyn and the Yankees. 

“If Suzyn Waldman and Dave Sims were speaking only in meaningless syllables you would still immediately know, yep, that’s the Yankees booth.”

“I've truly never seen anything like it,” Jon Miller said of the drone/smoke display of San Francisco Bay.
“It was amazing,” Dave Flemming said.
“I didn’t know they could do that,” Mike Krukow said, awestruck. 
“Do it again!” Miller quipped. 

Today begins a 162-game run through Sunday, September 27. Ahead are six months of daily installments of a story not yet written.

Big league managers are now media spokesmen and clubhouse psychologists. This is no small thing, but it’s a huge change from when titans strode the earth.

Nick Margevicius pitched the sixth and seventh and gave up three hits, but not a run. He got two wins during this spring training game: On the field and over the air as the White Sox announcers pronounced his name right.

The Seattle Mariners, way out there in the Pacific Northwest, lead the way with 50,308 miles of projected travel in the 2026 season. That’s nearly double the Pittsburgh Pirates 26,839 miles, lowest total among the 30 teams. 

Say what you will about the Midwest, but the travel is easier. That’s geometry. Or logic. 

All of it is vivid through baseball on the radio as preserved in this commemorative album, an object that’s been a part of my life for 58 years. Just look at this album cover. Ballet, motion, excitement. Cool. 

The Summer of Glove. Tune in, turn on, drop the hammer. 

For now, it is further understood any insight offered by spring training into the starting day roster is on hold until the players taking part in the World Baseball Classic are back in the fold. 

So talk meanders.