Father, Waco Disaster, Inspire New Coach

by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer February 4, 2021: Santa Fe, New Mexico – I met with Aurora’s new Rookie League pitching coach on a chilly, late winter afternoon outside the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to catch up with the former-15th round pick (387 overall) of the Borealis in the […]

OPEN MIC FOILS COQUI EXECUTIVE AS OWNER PASSES

OPEN MIC FOILS COQUI EXECUTIVE AS OWNER PASSES Jose Morales, San Juan Weekly Pre-Eminent San Juan (AP) – An era has ended in Puerto Rico as San Juan Coqui owner Myron Beardsall died unexpectedly after a short illness. Beardsall’s 13 year stint as owner of the former Rio Grande Valley-based team produced the franchise’s only […]

Tea with the Morning News

Tea with the Morning News Roberta sat at her desk, fighting the tears, and losing. The phone was still in her hand and the dial tone hummed across the Front Office. Her assistant Denise and the mail boy Jojo noticed. They gave each other a look—the look that said, What do we do now?—but they […]

Laughable

“Laughable.” Vanessa dropped the oft-reused manila folder, weakly struggling to contain a stack of scouting reports, comparison tables, and financial projections, with a casual disdain onto her boss’s unusually tidy desk. “You’ve cooked up some genuinely awful trades before, but this is easily,” Vanessa paused to consider whether to check her anger before deciding against it, […]

Mysterious Email in Yuma

Mysterious Email in Yuma Roberta Tipitina looked at the printed copy of the email again. Really? she thought. This is how you want to run this club? This is how you want to work with me? Damnit, Slummings, I deserve better! She wadded the paper as tightly as she could and tossed it across the […]

Codgers look to build on turbulent 2039 season

45. The Palm Springs Codgers rostered 45 players doing the 2039 season. The team shuffled 45 different players through the active roster and still managed to win 76 games, 27 more games than the 2038 season. There was a complete makeover of the team at the trading deadline that saw 11 players from the active roster […]