Category Archives: Baseball
Introducing: IDSR
Last week the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club was swept by the Royals, then swept the White Sox to tie for first place in the Central, and then on Labor Day lost to the Indians in the first game of the … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, Being Human
A pilfered posting notion
With little of the expected shame and embarrassment befitting the act, I have stolen the idea for this post from Carson Cistulli, whose humdinger of a website The New Enthusiast has been my (admittedly belated) obsession this week. Cistulli turns … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, Being Human, Fiction
90% of improvising is mental. The other half is physical.
This went up on the USS Rock N Roll blog today: I think that about a third of a being good improvisor is being an invested human being. Another third of it is being a good listener. And then the … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, Being Human, Improvisation
Sour Grapefruit
This is on the USS Rock N Roll blog today: Tuning in to spring training baseball is simultaneously fascinating and boring (presupposing avid interest the game). There are many side plots, but a main factor of interest for me are … Continue reading
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Tiger Spring
This went up on the RSBS MLBlog today: As soon as Victor Martinez went down, I thought, “well, season’s over.” [1] But then the Tigers won the Fielder sweepstakes (at a cost that boggles the mind: apparently Little Caesar’s is … Continue reading
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