Syracuse Chiefs win on the field, now the fans should follow

The season of baseball promise fulfillment continues on the north side of Syracuse. On Saturday night, my dear wife Karen and I went out to NBT Bank Stadium with a whole bunch of her co-workers at the Syracuse Media Group. The company that publishes The Post-Standard, syracuse.com and the glossy magazine bought section 118, reserved…

Bernie Williams, at the park and in the theater

Bernie Williams would rather talk about his current pursuit as a guitar player than his past career as an all-star center fielder with the New York Yankees, publicist Steve Fortunato said while setting up my phone interview two days ago. I can respect that. During a very invigorating phone conversation yesterday, Bernie Williams told me…

There’s a move on to match dogs, good homes

My dear wife Karen and I brought Ellie B, aka Dogamous Pyle, to two big doggie-themed events this past holiday weekend. I marched her around the field as part of Bark in the Park at the Syracuse Chiefs’ NBT Bank Stadium, and we marched with the patrons of the Dog Gone Inn Doggie Day Car…

Now this is a dog park

Big night at the big dog park Saturday night. The Syracuse Chiefs organization did it up right for Bark in the Park. There will be more to come tomorrow, here, and as my weekly community column for Syracuse Public Media site waer.org covers the escalation of dog awareness and celebrations in our part of the…

Never underestimate an imported pickle

My dear wife Karen appropriated the card of the smiling, baseball-holding pickle to the Bialczak refrigerator door hall of fame. Quite the Syracuse honor for the Dill from Toledo via Ann Arbor. Beth of I Didn’t Have My Glasses On sent over a glittering package of congratulations after our bonafide big baseball bloggers wager based…

The baseball bloggers wager is down to this

One game does a bet make. Syracuse Chiefs at the Toledo Mud Hens, Fifth Third Bank Field, Toledo, Ohio, tonight, for all the marbles. If the Chiefs win, to take the eight-game series 5-3, it shall be on the pages of markbialczak.com: If the Mud Hens win in front of Beth of I Didn’t Have…

One Chiefs victory away from bragging rights

I cannot lose the uber bloggers baseball wager with Beth of I Didn’t Have My Glasses On. When the Syracuse Chiefs quite tidily shut out the Toledo Mud Hens 3-0 around a 1-hour, 56-minute rain delay Wednesday afternoon, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals — and my hometown team, chest thump, chest thump —…

Mud Hens make it a little closer …

I thought I might have clinched a tie by now in the magnificent bloggers baseball wager. But the Toledo Mud Hens took the first of four in their home park last night, walloping the Syracuse Chiefs. I need not get into the score. Why not, you ask? Because the blogger on the other side of…

Chiefs put me up 3-1 in blockbuster bloggers baseball wager

I know, I’m wearing my New York Mets hat in a sea of Syracuse Chiefs caps in the picture above, taken by my dear wife Karen when we visited the ballpark merchandise store Friday night. What with the Chiefs defeating the Toledo Mud Hens 1-0 Sunday at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse, it must might…