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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Alex Rodriguez: Tragic Hero? (Part II)
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” – The Witches of Macbeth This started as an essay called Alex Rodriguez: Tragic Hero. I had noble intensions for it; I was going to compare A-Rod to Macbeth. I would have matched … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Books, Features, Thinking
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Heroism, Macbeth, Scott Boras, Steroids
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Poem Of The Week: Invisibility
A nice little poem by Renato Rosaldo that hits on the ordinary/legendary theme I’ve been hitting on with this A-Rod stuff lately: We celebrate their days, eat hot dogs, love baseball, but they say we were born to weed, change … Continue reading
Alex Rodriguez: Tragic Hero? (Part I)
When I was younger I wanted to be a baseball player. But I can’t remember whether I loved baseball, or whether I just wanted everyone to love me. A confession, then: I still want everyone to love me—blindly, entirely, without … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Memoir, Thinking
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Cody Walker, Dreams, Tragic Hero, Writing
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Weekend Reading: Gaping Sinkholes And El Duderino Edition
The horrifying near-death of a Portland Oregon area girl has resulted in perhaps the funniest baseball related headline I’ve ever read. The lead ain’t half bad either: Ground Swallows Girl As She Plays Baseball PORTLAND, Ore. — A 9-year-old girl … Continue reading
Posted in Links, Movies, Weekend Reading
Tagged Manny Ramirez, Sinkholes, The Big Lebowski
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Do It For Kent Hrbek
First, an opportunity to exercise your democratic power as citizens of the internet: Paul Shirley, modern basketball’s somewhat less entertaining version of Jim Bouton has a post up at ESPN asking for votes on which band’s album he should review. … Continue reading
Rejection Notice: Strunk and White Edition
Arrived in my inbox this afternoon, courtesy of the Los Angeles Dodgers: We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the Broadcast Assistant position with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Although your resume’ [stray apostrophe], educational and work experience was … Continue reading
Mixtape Update: Dropkick Murphys- Tessie
I resisted putting this song on there because somehow it has come to represent everything obnoxious about the Red Sox. But there’s nothing I can do to avoid the fact that like some women from Boston, it was easily available … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: ‘Slug the Umpire’
This week’s poem is an anonymous piece published by the Chicago Tribune in 1886. Back in those days, it was common for newspapers to include baseball poetry. In fact, the one baseball poem you’ve heard of, Casey At The Bat, … Continue reading
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Clubhouse Humor
On Saturday I went to a panel discussion on the ‘comic imagination.’ It was pretty funny. Joining me in the audience was a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports writer who covered baseball in the 1980s for the NY Times. In a discussion … Continue reading
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