Crunch of the bat?

Great new name. Sometimes late in a season, a Triple A squad calls a player up from Double A. Welcome to the Rochester Red Wings, Frankie Tostado. I quickly put him on my Love-That-Name squad.

A diamond in the sun

Add two weeks, four days to opening day. Add 25 degrees to the temperature. Subtract 5,000 fans. What I enjoyed with my good friends Dave and Steven T. was a noontime baseball game at NBT Banks Stadium, the home field for the Syracuse Chiefs, in 75-degree and sunny weather. The grass was inarguably greener than…