Monthly Archives: November 2010

Visual Mixtape: Southpaw Relief

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Ted

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I, Human

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Eric

A crazy article from the New York Times StatSheet, a Durham, N.C., company that serves up sports statistics in monster-size portions, thinks otherwise. The company, with nine employees, is working to endow software with the ability to turn game statistics … Continue reading →

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What Do You Do With An Aging Player?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Ted

Derek Jeter and the Yankees are currently embroiled in some low-hum sort of back-and-forth about how much they’ll pay the young legend for his final years of service. Will it be an insulting 15 mill a year, or a peaceful … Continue reading →

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The Promised Land

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Eric

A box set reissue of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ came out this week. It is my belief that music box sets are perhaps the biggest rip off in modern society.  The ‘Darkness’ set, called ‘The Promise,’ features 21 unreleased … Continue reading →

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Conversation: A Hangover is a Good Thing

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Eric

Transcript, if you don’t speak robot: Ted: Well, Eric, it is now baseball’s offseason. Are you ready for the Hot Stove season? Eric: To be honest, no.  I am not ready. I am still in a state of World Series … Continue reading →

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All I Wanna Do is Dream

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Ted

These water cooler clips are all the rage these days, so I thought I’d have a little fun with the xtranormal video creation tools and some of baseball’s current events.

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The Talk of the Town

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Eric

Some brief notes of congratulations: 1. Friend of P&P (and occasional contributor) Reeves Wiedeman has published his first article, a Talk of the Town piece in The New Yorker: Far From Haiti. 2. Another friend, Josh Cohen, has launched an … Continue reading →

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So Much Depends

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Paul

One of my favorite classroom activities revolves around a little sixteen word poem by William Carlos Williams. The Red Wheelbarrow is a classic, rightfully famous for so many reasons, not the least of which how it hones in from the … Continue reading →

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Situational Essay: The Last Harrah: The Last Senator, The First Ranger, The Eternal Man

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ted

Ben Lyon is a lawyer living in Chicago. He alone knows what it must be like to occupy his own impressive mindspace, which I liken to a shoebox full of baseball cards, each of which can speak. It’s only appropriate … Continue reading →

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