Category Archives: Music

Situational Essay: Of Broken Bats and Broken Bottles: Athletes, Musicians, and The Number 27 by Simon Broder

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ted

Simon Broder is a starving writer and Blue Jays fan living, working and ostensibly writing his first novel in Victoria, BC. He blogs about the Jays at .363. My first favourite number wasn’t twenty-seven. It was 3. Three, because three … Continue reading →

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A Song and a Sabbatical

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Eric

Hi all, a quick note: I (Eric, if you didn’t read the byline atop this post) will be outside the country as of tomorrow and until mid-August. That means there will be no baseball and hence no baseball blogging in … Continue reading →

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Actually, Cliff Lee Did Sign With the Yankees

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Eric

Exactly one year ago today, I wrote about the trade that brought Roy Halladay to Philadelphia. I argued that trading a franchise player is difficult but sometimes necessary; for a franchise to remain healthy, it must at times redefine itself … 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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It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Eric

I saw the guy who used to be Bob Dylan on Saturday. He wore a white hat with a wide flat brim and a mariachi’s outfit and he smiled like the riddling Cheshire troubadour of the myths. We smiled too, … 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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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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Catfish and the Centennial

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Eric

As of today Pitchers & Poets has enough posts for somebody (like  VH1 or Pitchfork or  Time Magazine or the Modern Library Association) to create a definitive and Important list of the  Top 100 Pitchers & Poets posts. Indeed this … Continue reading →

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The Devil and David Eckstein: An Improbable Journey Through the Improbably Cool, Starting with Harry and the Potters

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Ted

A simple request: I am starting in a random spot, but I will, I promise, bring it back around to pitchers. Consider the first few graphs the poet portion of the program. A few weeks ago I watched “We Are … Continue reading →

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Baseball Mixtape: Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Eric

Words to win my heart: Kenesaw Mountain Landis was a bad motherfucker. So begins this Dylan-esque tune by Jonathan Coulton, geek-folk troubadour. The lyrics weave their way from old Kenesaw himself, to Shoeless Joe Jackson, to the singer Joe Jackson … Continue reading →

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