Chalk one up for the Chiefs

Game three in the biggest bloggers baseball wager ever is in the books. The Syracuse Chiefs defeated the Toledo Mud Hens this afternoon at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse. The final score was a whole lot to not so much. You can see it in the glorious line score from the Chiefs site above. You…

The wager is all even as Lobstein does that and more

The great, big bloggers baseball wager is all tied up. And I saw Syracuse fall to Toledo right before my very eyes Friday night. Boo-hoo. Mud Hens pitcher Kyle Lobstein had a startling fastball when you compared it to his back-breakingly slow change-up. Lob-stein indeed. Third baseman Mike Hessman clouted a homer over the deepest…

Toledo has a mascot named Jim Flealand

Beth of I Didn’t Have My Glasses On has gone all mascot on us, Syracuse. She’s taken her first shot in the great Syracuse Chiefs vs. Toledo Mud Hens blog vs. blog wager. I will admit, so very grudgingly, that I do like the idea of a baseball character who goes by the name of…

A small business can still swing for the fences

A small business conference was my dear wife Karen’s assignment Thursday afternoon for the Syracuse Media Group, the company that was born from the big daily. As I was sharpening comments right here, Karen called. She suggested I drive downtown to the Oncenter and take a walk through the aisles. There were plenty of folks…

Chiefs vs. Mud Hens, and there’s going to be some sort of sign

They may fall slightly off the national radar, these eight games coming up between the Syracuse Chiefs and the Toledo Mud Hens. But for this blogger and Beth, the author behind I Didn’t Have My Glasses On, the eight games in May are the equivalent of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Final Four,…

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…

Give us a good time, please, say Syracuse Chiefs fans

At the beginning of April in Syracuse, N.Y., the grass was not yet green. Not even at the big ballpark that the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team calls home. That did not stop 6,661 fans from welcoming the start of another Triple-A season to NBT Bank Stadium. But first, they had a pretty big party in…

The lid is off our baseball season

Opening day was a success in Syracuse Thursday afternoon. Even though the Syracuse Chiefs lost the game to 4-1 to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. As the season unfolds, victories for the Triple A-affiliate of the Washington Nationals will indeed become important. But on this opening day, of more significance was the fact that 6,661 fans showed…

So close

Almost. We’re one day from April, and the snow here in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood is waving its last bye-bye, what with a high of 57 forecast for tomorrow. At least I hope its one final wave. You never know around here. A common comment: Remember the year we woke up to inches…

Jason Smorol starts his big task of making the Syracuse Chiefs cool

A couple days into his new position as general manager of the Syracuse Chiefs, Jason Smorol obviously is knee-deep. I caught Smorol with CNY Central sports anchor Niko Tamurian on last night’s news. They stood in the parking lot outside NBT Bank Stadium, the big ballpark serving as the backdrop as Smorol explained that it…