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Category Archives: Baseball the Teacher
Finding Jered: Angertainment and the Reluctant Appreciation of an Ace
My wife really eats up Sarah Palin news. She could watch YouTube videos of the absentee Alaskan all day long. Angertainment, she calls it: the practice of watching something because you can’t stand the subject, and bashing them gives you … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Players
Tagged angertainment, jered weaver, los angeles angels of anaheim, seattle mariners
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Nied’s Chain by Tom Ley
Tom Ley writes at Word’s Finest. He contributed to 1990s First Basemen Week with The Big Cat and the Water, about Andres Galarraga. You can email him at leyt345(at)gmail(dot)com. I once sat in a hot tub with David Nied on … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Players
Tagged Colorado Rockies, david nied, tom ley
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Chasin’ Castro
I haven’t written about it in a while, but I’m an Astros fan. Please, hold your applause until the end. As a team, the Astros are in the awkward tween stage right now, lurking around the punch bowl at the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Spring Training
Tagged baseball cliches, jason castro, Spring Training
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The Surest Prop of Their Power: Ancient Egyptians and the Power of Sabermetrics
In doing some research on goodness knows what, I came across a few paragraphs by the scholar of ancient literature Edith Hamilton, in her book The Greek Way. Hamilton loves the Greeks, and has not much fondness for the Egyptian … Continue reading
Getting off the Schneid
One of my day jobs involves blogging for a Jewish themed website called Jew-ish.com. In that capacity, I wrote a post today inspired by Roger Angell about Getting off the Schneid. The crux: The Rangers’ victory, Angell wrote, “took them … Continue reading
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The Strange Grace of Players Trading Places
You would be hard-pressed to find another franchise that’s had a two-day period the likes of the Astros recent whirlwind. Not only in terms of volume of activity, but when you consider that the Astros traded away the two players … Continue reading
Sailing to Byzantium
The author of this post is Paul Franz. Ted and I invited Paul to contribute to Pitchers and Poets with the idea that he would bring a new perspective. Already, he has wowed us by writing an insightful essay built … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Thinking
Tagged Byzantium, Franklin Gutierrez, Ken Griffey Jr., Paul Franz, Todd HElton, Troy Tulowitzki, WB Yeats
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Lines in the Sand
Bryce Harper got ejected from a JUCO World Series game recently, and for me what was more interesting than the delicate personality traits of a 17-year-old kid is the taboo that he put in the spotlight: drawing a line in … Continue reading
Portrait of a Man Out of His Depth
If you’re into awkward conversations, people discussing issues they have no professional knowledge of, and winter hats in the summer, watch Manny Delcarmen play Dan Savage (many NSFW words) for ten minutes over at boston.com. Link
Pew Pew Pew! Baseball Demonstrations from the Booth
I enjoy it when retired pitchers turned broadcasters in expensive ties grab a baseball that some intern had to scare up for them and demonstrate how to throw a cutter or a circle change. The starched cuff of a fine … Continue reading
