MLB – Wake Up and Save Your Game: The Root Cause of Major League Baseball’s Problems

vSportsTalk - By Gil Vieira

Make no mistake, baseball is America’s pastime.  As the Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum often says, “Baseball is sewn into the fabric of America.” The word pastime has multiple meanings. To me, it’s a manner in which to pass time. Unlike the fast-paced Millennial and Gen-Z generations, former generations lived a slower, more in-the-moment lifestyle – and viewed baseball as a means of gathering with family and friends to enjoy watching the ‘boys of…

That Demon Rum

By Billy O’Connor (Da Mick)

                           One afternoon, many years ago I was tending bar when an ominous looking man with a Boston Blackie style pencil thin moustache walked in and slid into a seat.  He was barely at his stool when the Killer said, “Alcohol is the cause and solution of all problems.”   “Killer Miller” was an exterminator, hence the benign rhyming nickname.                      As a former drunk, the sentence hit my ears like a powerful left…

Tempus Fugit or Time Flies

theMook - by Frank Pace (The Mook)

Time flies.  One year, I’m 19 years old and watching Artis Gilmore lead Jacksonville University to the NCAA finals, the next thing you know I look in the mirror to shave and see a 71–year old man.  We really do have to make the most of every day.  As trite as that saying may seem, nothing is promised. Two recent tragedies remind me of that adage.   The death of the 19-year-old Kentucky guard Terrace Clarke…

How to Beat Your Bookie

By Billy O’Connor (Da Mick)

An hour before the NCAA championship game, a diner in my community interrupted my burger, “Hey man, I watched your podcast. Good stuff.”“Thanks Tommy,” I said. “Much appreciated.”“So, you were a bookie?”“For seven years,” I said. “I even wrote a book about it.”“Wow. So, you know your stuff,” Tommy said. “Who do you like in tonight’s big game, Gonzaga or Baylor?”“Know my stuff?” I just laughed.Last football season on our podcast A Mick, A Mook,…

A Sports Blog for A Mick A Mook and A Mic

vSportsTalk - By Gil Vieira

by Gil Vieira VSportsTalk As promoted in the tagline of the podcast, A Mick A Mook and A Mic, sports will be one of the frequent topics of discussion. Therefore, I thought it would be apropos to provide the website with my blog, vSportsTalk, to share sports insight and opinions – and to get the podcast’s fans blood boiling.   With my old friend, the ‘Mook’, being a New York sports fan, and I residing…