Category Archives: Meta

If You’re in Ft. Worth this Weekend…

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Eric

Friend of P&P — and situational essayist — Larry Herold’s play THE SPORTS PAGE will be read (EDIT: NEXT) Sunday at 3:00 PM at Stage West Theater. I’ve read THE SPORTS PAGE and it’s damn good. It also won the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Reading: World Domination Edition

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Eric

This is our 200th post.  So before we get to the  Weekend Reading portion, Ted and I wanted to try something new: namely request feedback. This is both general and specific request. Generally, feel free tell us some things about … Continue reading →

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The Monitor; The Heartbeat

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Eric

Tuesday night, Titus Andronicus rocked the Vera Project in Seattle so hard they made me want to write something. The Vera Project is an all-ages, non-profit, no-booze venue. The handful of high school kids and baby boomer parents in the … Continue reading →

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Enter the Podcast!

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Eric

This week, Pitchers & Poets turns One. To mark this momentous and surprising occasion, here is the inaugural PnP podcast. We’ve kept things short — it’s only about twenty minutes — so please give it a listen.

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You May Have Noticed…

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Eric

There is suddenly an advertisement in our sidebar of our home page. That is because Pitchers & Poets has taken on an official sponsor in Barry’s Tickets.  Through their site, and DodgerTickets.org, they offer great deals on baseball tickets nation-wide. … Continue reading →

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Unsatisfied

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Eric

I’m mostly just posting because it’s now been two weeks since Ted or I any of our friends have said anything about baseball on this here website. Rest assured that he benefits of this interlude, inexcusable as it may be … Continue reading →

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The Long and Wandy Road

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Eric

Just a quick programming note. I have an essay  up on Wandy Rodriguez over at Walkoff Walk as part of their “This Guy Is Playing Golf Right Now” series. And fear not Astros fans, this was given the Ted Walker … Continue reading →

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When Life Throws You Curveballs, You Take Them The Other Way

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Eric

In a literary sense, I sort of like clichés. Before they become hackneyed and mundane, they are tight exceptional metaphors and similes. The first time somebody compared his lover’s eyes to a glowing moon, or her beauty to a red … Continue reading →

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Reminders

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Eric

August has been slow at Pitchers & Poets, but fear not. We’re getting back into the swing of things. Ted and I have a great new project underway (you’ll hear a lot about it in the coming weeks), and we’ve … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Jim Tracy

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Eric

Dear Spaghetti Arms, I try not to engage in criticism. That is, I try to avoid using this blog as a platform to shout about why a certain player should bat in a certain place, or why Joe Scouting Director … Continue reading →

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