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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Deep Thought
By slashing the prices of its most expensive tickets, is the Yankee front office practicing a baseball version of Reaganomics? Perhaps the savings will trickle up to the top deck.
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Poem Of The Week: Anthony Claggett
Short little poem this week by Hart Seely and a link to a website from which it came: Bardball, whose mission is “reviving the art of baseball doggerel.” Anthony Claggett, Your fastball, they flag it. It floats like a maggot, … Continue reading
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Baseball Mixtape: Cooperstown by the Felice Brothers
Great tune from a band of fiddle and accordion playing/soulish/bobby d and the band-esque rockers who actually grew up near Cooperstown. No cheesy John Fogerty stuff or annoying overdone sound effects of a roaring crowd; just a nice acoustic ballad … Continue reading
The Decline And Fall Of The Complete Game
There’s something beautiful and perfect and symmetrical about a shutout. The line of zeroes on the scoreboard that feels like it could go on forever. The inevitable victory that comes when the zeroes do stop. It’s perfection embodied in the … Continue reading
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Tagged CC Sabathia, Complete Games, Feature, Randy Jones, Shutouts, Stats
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Poem Of The Week: Ninth Inning
Donald Hall was inevitable for this blog; he’s the most famous living baseball poet. Maggie suggested a poem called Baseball, but I couldn’t find it online for semi-legal reproduction on my blog. So here’s one called Ninth Inning that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Dock Ellis, Dog, Donald Hall, Poem of the Week, Red Sox
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Bernie Smooth
Fact: The no. 30 Smooth Jazz album on amazon.com is ‘The Journey Within’ by Bernie Williams. (Released in 2003) Question: Is this because A.) Bernie Williams is famous, B.) Bernie Williams is actually a much better musician than you ever … Continue reading
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Public Service Announcement: Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf
When this blog was first conceived in my imagination, it was as a sort of resource for baseball/literary info. I was thinking I’d review all the current baseball books and movies and so on and so forth. I thought it’d … Continue reading
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Chaucer, Shakesepare, Yeats, Scully
The way Vin Scully talks makes me wonder why I bother to write. Here he is on how Bruce Bochy must have felt watching his Giants get pounded in Monday’s Dodger home opener: I was thinking about Bruce Bochy … Continue reading
Self-Congradulatory Programming Note
This has nothing to do with baseball, but a short story I wrote called Moroccan Passageways was published today (well internet published) in a literary journal (well internet literary journal) called elimae. Check it out here. And make sure you … Continue reading
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Tuesdays With Nobody
Last week, the Indians and Rangers opened a series on a Monday, took Tuesday off, and resumed Wednesday. This week, the Dodgers and Giants are doing the same thing. So are the Mets and Padres. Can somebody please explain this? … Continue reading