Author Archives: Eric

P&P Conversations: Hello, Goodbye

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Eric

Eric:When our friendship was but a timid internet seedling, you wrote a blog called Waiting for Berkman. While the site wasn’t necessarily about the Big Puma, it wasn’t necessarily not about the Big Puma either. Now, almost three years after … Continue reading →

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Jose Canseco III

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Eric

The year was 1991. Jose Canseco had gone several weeks without hitting a home run and was becoming alarmed. No matter that this was December, 1991, and the baseball season was still months away from starting. His biceps felt deflated. … Continue reading →

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A Baseball Hall of Fame for the Soul

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Eric

If I have one cause as a baseball blogger, it’s to advance a kind of fandom defined by idiosyncratic love as opposed to institutionalized expectations. That being: More Roger Maris Museum in a strip mall in  North Dakota Dakota, and … Continue reading →

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Jose Canseco II

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Eric

When Jose Canseco was just a little infant, he supported himself and his twin brother Ozzie Canseco by driving Canadian tourists around Havana in a red and white 1952 DeSoto. This was the early 1980s, when body-building was just coming … Continue reading →

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It’s 3 a.m. I Must be Baseball a.ka. Scattered Reflections from Opening Day

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Eric

I woke up at 2 a.m. and trekked to my friend Kenneth’s house to watch the Mariner’s and A’s kick off the season in Tokyo. Here are some things I noticed and wrote down. The Tokyo Dome gives the impression … Continue reading →

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Jose Canseco

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Eric

I once got Jose Canseco’s autograph on a baseball at Tropicana Field. He was playing catch with Bubba Trammell when I called out ‘Mr. Canseco, Mr. Canseco’ and he turned and grinned. The year was 1999. Although his role that … Continue reading →

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On Snake Oil, Gem Mint Rookie Cards, and Dmitri Young

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Eric

Jesse Gloyd is approaching regular contributor status at P&P. He’s written about fishing in the LA River, and about Satchel Paige on the site. Check out his podcast Buckshot Boogaloo. Talk of coming back is always inspiring, but it rarely … Continue reading →

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P&P Conversation: Location, Dislocation, and A.J. Burnett

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Eric

Ted: Well, Eric, we are in the dregs of the offseason, after all of the big free agents have signed with their new teams, but before Spring Training begins in earnest. It’s the time of year when, for example, we … Continue reading →

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A True Nightmare by Ross Allen

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Eric

Ross Allen is a Cubs fan and former second-rate Division I tennis player. I awoke several weeks ago from the most searing nightmare. It brought me back to my teenage years when I would awake from horrible dreams involving Craig … Continue reading →

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Pitchers & Poets Podcast 35: The Mat Latos Game

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Eric

In episode 35 of the podcast we feel our way through the offseason’s latest transactions, consider on the antics of one J. Burnitz, and suffer with poor Yorvit Torrealba — he of the suspended from Venezuelan baseball for hitting an … Continue reading →

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