I gotta be honest with you folks: I barely ever know what I’m gonna write when I get behind the keyboard to do this column each week.
Sure, I’ll have a general idea of what I wanna talk about — and have the commenters yell at me about, and rightfully so — but I don’t go into the writing process with a master plan and a flag to plant (I’m sure my previous musings tipped you off to these facts, but I digress).
As I was sitting at a fine watering hole Sunday afternoon, and as a piece of news came across my desk, the topic of what I’d be writing about for the Brushback became evidently clear: legendary radio play-by-play guy Joe Castiglione—a Hall of Famer—announced that he’d be retiring after over four decades in the booth calling Red Sox games.