Sully Baseball

I visited the Polo Grounds towers, once the home of the Giants and the epicenter of New York baseball. Now it is an apartment complex and the baseball hub is across the river. How did that happen?

If the Mets fanbase can be traced back to the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, then CitiField needs to honor a few Giants, including John McGraw.

I visited CitiField, the new home of the Mets. It is a monument to the Brooklyn Dodgers and a missed opportunity to honor baseball of the 1960's.

I visited the Ebbets Field Apartments in Flatbush Brooklyn. This was once the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In New York City, I took a look at the Yankees rebuilding process, the assumptions and the last time there were no active World Champion Yankees on the roster.

SUNDAY REQUEST - @Bethrich52 and @swampudlian wonder which manner of suffering is worse: Always being bad or losing the big one.

Attention White Sox fans! The next few years will not feature a lot of wins for your team and LOTS for the Cubs. But if you stay loyal to your team, the amazing rebuilding process by the GM will reward you soon.

Former Red Sox World Series hero and closer Koji Uehara looks like he is heading to Chicago. He will join Cubs pitchers Mike Montgomery and Wade Davis as pitchers who closed out a World Series. Why stop there?

The Cubs brought in Wade Davis, who will be the closer for the defending World Champions for the second straight year. If he clinches a post season series in Chicago, he will join a select fraternity in terms pitchers for 2 different franchises.

Chris Sale was dealt to the Red Sox from the White Sox... and oddly it could make a lot of sense for both teams.

The Indians could be making a run for Edwin Encarnacion. Do you know why? Because every other team in their division is rebuilding.

Well... Bud Selig is in the Hall of Fame. And with his election, my reverence for the honor Hall of Famers get has been a little diminished.

SUNDAY REQUEST - @WesJoke wants to know if I think Bud Selig should be in the Hall of Fame. I don't, and my reasons are not subtle.

Justin McGuire, former MLB Editor of the Sporting News and creator of the new podcast Baseball By The Book, is my guest today. We talked about which teams should have the greatest sense of urgency going into 2017 and some Hall of Fame thoughts.

I couldn't find my car. I had no idea where I parked it. So as I wondered around a parking lot late at night, I tried to remember the 1987 Twins and 1988 Dodgers and praised the powers that be for signing a new CBA.

For 1,500 straight says, Paul Francis Sullivan, (aka Sully) has done a baseball podcast. Today Sully looks at the concept of baseball nostalgia and realizes that everything is trying to celebrate the late 1940's. Why should post WWII monopolize traditional baseball?

The universe and our concept of reality is a vast web of connections and reactions to events. And the connections are not always obvious. Connie Mack not retiring from baseball in the 1940's affected the existence of the Milwaukee Brewers and Seattle Mariners. Trust me, it makes sense.

MLB Reports creator Chuck Booth joins the podcast to talk about his many ballpark trips and keeping up a big on line network.

Are the Dodgers going to be a cost cutting team? Then their front office will have to remember their Tampa Bay Rays days to finally bring a pennant to Chavez Ravine.

SUNDAY REQUEST - @Tim_DutchSoxFan wants to know what will stop a Lockout over the CBA. The answer is common sense.