River Rat - Final

“At some point, you stop rooting for the players and start rooting for the memories.” – Unknown

The baseball season is a week old, and I haven’t said a word about Pete Rose.

I wrote something when Bob Uecker passed. That felt like something I needed to do right away, a tribute that came naturally, almost without effort. Uecker was joy. He was the game’s sense of humor. He was the guy in the booth who made you feel like baseball was a living room, a…