Eddie Michels is a regular contributor of Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network. Eddie began a radio career in Fulton NY where he covered the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team (Toronto Blue Jays - AAA). Eddie is a regular guest on the Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network. Eddie is an official scorekeeper and freelance MLB writer who covers the Toronto Blue Jays.

Father and Son in the Show

Bradenton, Fla.—After a three hour bus trip from Miami to Bradenton 2014 Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer  Tim and his son Chad Wallach got ready for a spring training game of baseball.      “It’s pretty special to spend some time watching him play, be that close to him and be a little bit of a […]

Jays New Nest

This photo of the Toronto Blue Jays new spring training stadium was shown to Dunedin residents on Wednesday night February 20th at the Hale Center across the street from Dunedin Stadium.   The park will increase in capacity from 5,509 to over 8,000 according to city officials even though parking at the stadium will decrease.  Parking […]

Pirates and Low Places

Garth a Pirate

County Western Singer Garth Brooks makes a sliding catch during outfield drills at the Pittsburgh Pirates spring training in Bradenton, Fl.  Brooks has been at Pirate City since camp opened on February 14th with Tuesday February 19th being the first day of full squad workouts.  Brooks has been participating in all activities on the field […]

Snow Birds

The Campbell Brothers Moving of Toronto Ont. made their 43rd trip south to Dunedin, Fl. to deliver the good for the team’s spring training.  The truck was totally unloaded on Monday with items for the major league team at Dunedin Stadium at Grant Field and the minor league faculty at the Englebert Complex 3 1/2 […]

Dog Goes Without in Dunedin

Dunedin, Fla.–On Thursday morning a dog had to go without at the large dog park at the Vanech Complex in Dunedin.     The dog’s owner, who request not to have her named used, informed this reporter that the City of Dunedin had shut the water off to the two dog parks which aren’t supposedly to […]

Osprey and Dogs in Dunedin

The Happy Tails Dog Park in Dunedin at the Vanech Complex will soon be a thing of the past.  Since the new Paws Park opened on Virginia St. on Monday this park, open since 2003 will be a thing of the past.  “We donated trees, bricks and chairs which we aren’t going to be able […]

Where’s the Nest?

Construction crews started removing light towers at the Englebert Complex on Monday.  These towers were put up when the complex was expanded from three to five fields in 2002.  The tower removed prior to the one shown was missing one important item, an osprey nest.

An Osprey’s Nest: Changes in Dunedin

The complex, given to the residents of Dunedin, Fl. by the Louis A. Vanech Foundation will soon be no more.  The area with two parking lots, a children’s playground, two dog parks and three slow-pitch softball fields was given to the Toronto Blue Jays by the city’s mayor and commissioners.  The Blue Jays will be […]

Dunedin Giving

Large trees are being trimmed on the Pinellas County property adjacent to the Vanech Recreational Complex and Garrison-Jones Elementary School to provide parking for the school. The need was because the City of Dunedin gave the remainder of the citizen owned Vanech Complex to the Toronto Blue Jays for the expansion of the Englebert Recreational […]