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Category Archives: Spring Training
Deep Thought
By slashing the prices of its most expensive tickets, is the Yankee front office practicing a baseball version of Reaganomics? Perhaps the savings will trickle up to the top deck.
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Bernie Smooth
Fact: The no. 30 Smooth Jazz album on amazon.com is ‘The Journey Within’ by Bernie Williams. (Released in 2003) Question: Is this because A.) Bernie Williams is famous, B.) Bernie Williams is actually a much better musician than you ever … Continue reading
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Public Service Announcement: Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf
When this blog was first conceived in my imagination, it was as a sort of resource for baseball/literary info. I was thinking I’d review all the current baseball books and movies and so on and so forth. I thought it’d … Continue reading
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Chaucer, Shakesepare, Yeats, Scully
The way Vin Scully talks makes me wonder why I bother to write. Here he is on how Bruce Bochy must have felt watching his Giants get pounded in Monday’s Dodger home opener: I was thinking about Bruce Bochy … Continue reading
Self-Congradulatory Programming Note
This has nothing to do with baseball, but a short story I wrote called Moroccan Passageways was published today (well internet published) in a literary journal (well internet literary journal) called elimae. Check it out here. And make sure you … Continue reading
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Tuesdays With Nobody
Last week, the Indians and Rangers opened a series on a Monday, took Tuesday off, and resumed Wednesday. This week, the Dodgers and Giants are doing the same thing. So are the Mets and Padres. Can somebody please explain this? … Continue reading
Fastball (The Band!)
Who knew that the 1990s also-rans with the baseball themed name were still running? I’m pretty sure the red ball on the album cover representst he way their career has whizzed in and out of the public consciousness…like a projectile … Continue reading
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Keith Hernandez Meets A Tenor
(yet another thing to love about KH) Keith Hernandez espouses on his arrival in New York (in New York Mag) and on meeting Placido Domingo: And you’d be a fool to live here and not take advantage of the cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged Keith Hernandez, Placido Domingo
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Nick Adenhart: The Death Of A Pitcher
There is little I can add regarding the death of Nick Adenhart. The sadness and shock are self-evident; his was a fate that nobody deserves. But the tragedy has gotten me thinking about the nature of death in sports, the … Continue reading
Corrections
In baseball, when you screw up and let a ball go through your legs, there’s no going back and fixing it. You hate yourself for a while, try to look confident, and pray to god it doesn’t lead to any … Continue reading
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Tagged Corrections, Waiting For Berkman, William Carlos Williams
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