Monthly Archives: September 2009

Milton Bradley Timeline Update

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Eric

As history unfolds, so must our recordings of it change. Here is the recently added update to the world famous Definitive Unsourced Milton Bradley Timeline. 2009 B: Hitting .257 in September, Milton Bradley is suspended from the Cubs for the … Continue reading →

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Celebrity Rogue #3: Ember Nickel of Lipogram! Scorecard! – Keeping Score at Home and The One That Got Away

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ted

Ember Nickel of the often e-less Lipogram! Scorecard! offers up the latest Celebrity Rogue contribution to the swelling cavity of hardball knowledge that is the Rogue’s Baseball Index. On tap, there’s the basic delusion of old school broadcasters, and a … Continue reading →

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Celebrity Rogue #2: from Paul Catalano – Jobawacky and the Curse of the Giambino

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ted

Two RBI entries this go round, this time from Paul Catalano of the blog And A Player To Be Named Later. Paul brings us one term to describe a franchise gone over-protective, and another to describe the personal favorite who … Continue reading →

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Celebrity Rogue #1: The MSB from SOSG Orel

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Eric

Kicking off our week of all things Rogue’s Baseball Index, our first celebrity rogue term comes from Orel Hershiser, that famed Son of Steve Garvey, whose contribution touches on the twerpier side of baseball: The MSB The MSB is a … Continue reading →

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On Repetition, Consistency, and Ichiro

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Ted

There is poetry in repetition, and repetition in poetry, and poetition in repeatery. In their mystical, reptilian brain-type ways, rhyme and verse and meter build and release tension, create and demolish expectation, and generally provide the aesthetic infrastructure that enables … Continue reading →

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America and Baseball in Afghanistan

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Eric

Matt Yglesias recently compared Afghanistan to an ESPN Zone: A better analogy might be that it’s the ESPN Zone of empires, someplace where from time to time a lot of people feel tempted to go, but when you get there … Continue reading →

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Poem of the Week: A Poem About Baseballs

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Eric

The title of this week’s poem by National Book Award winner Denis Johnson is meant to be ironic. It’s not a poem about baseballs, but a poem about hanging on and finding meaning and hell, sometimes the only thing for … Continue reading →

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Weekend Reading: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Take Me In

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Eric

It’s September 11th. Those words mean so much more in New York City today. Here’s an apt new song by the Avett Brothers and some New York baseball reading. Few people, if anybody, can write about baseball like Roger Angell. … Continue reading →

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Shoeless Joe

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Eric

When we asked young Phil Bencomo, chronicler of all things baseball if he would like to write a Situational Essay, we were unsure of what to expect. His Baseball Chronicle is in many ways a kindred spirit in this massive, … Continue reading →

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