A Christmas Tune
24 Dec 2010, by EricTed and I sing this every year at the P&P holiday karaoke extraveganza. Guess who sings which part.
Vin Scully: Bacon Historian
22 Dec 2010, by Eric
Jon Weisman of Dodger Thoughts is listening to old ballgames. Here's Vin Scully in 1980 with a tour de force on America's zeitgeistiest meat:
So what's new? Not bacon. Bacon is almost as ancient as time itself. It was mentioned by Aesop in the sixth century B.C. It was a staple in medieval Europe. And in Norman England, bacon was so universally accepted, it was sometimes used as money. And monastery monks awarded bacon to husbands for not quarreling with their wives. Indeed, bacon is no Johnny-come-lately. Through the years, it has survived the competition of thousands of new products, and the bacon bin continues to be a popular spot in our modern supermarkets. One reason is the quick energy it survives, and another its matchless flavor. Which brings up the most flavorsome bacon of all: Farmer John. For this is a bacon with a sweet, savory goodness from hush-hush secrets in the curing, plus a much heartier Western flavor from Farmer John's old-time Western way of doing the smoking. No other bacon like it — if you haven't tried it, why delay any longer? The next time you shop, take home the bacon from Farmer John.
Visual Mixtape: Bid Thee Alou
22 Dec 2010, by Eric
Clockwise: Moises, Jesus, Matty, Felipe (h/t Pat Truby on the Moises pic).
JoePos'd, from the Rogue's Baseball Index
15 Dec 2010, by TedThe Rogue's Baseball Index is back with another term, reminding you of the time-sucking virtues of the Kerouac of the Keyboard, the belovedly bellicose Joe Posnanski.
In the two minutes of free time you have to catch up on baseball news, it is inevitable that your baseball-obsessed friend with weird amounts of free time will sense a weakness in your defenses and take the opportunity to send you a link to the densest, longest, most intricate baseball blog post on the internet.
Along with the link, he will send several direct questions pertaining to paragraphs eight and fourteen of this blog post, essentially demanding a detailed, nuanced response to the already detailed and nuanced blog post. You will feel obliged by the bond of comradeship to carefully read through the lengthy diatribe, tracking the cyclonic language and the crescendo of logic asserting with admirable equivocation the importance of Jeff Nelson’s role on the 2000 Yankees and the fluctuating role of the set-up man throughout the course of human history from Pompeii to 9/11.
45 minutes later, you have completed a thoughtful, well-reasoned response to your friend’s, and when you see him at the bar the next night, he will have no idea what you are talking about.
You have been JoePos’d.
The term is derived from the well-reasoned, professional-grade and incredibly long blog posts of sportswriter Joe Posnanski, whose capacity to argue vehemently for the Hall of Fame credentials of one player or another knows no bounds.
