Listening to Soundgarden’s final album today got me thinking about baseball.*
I grew up with an All-American boy’s passion for the American game. The players whose faces festooned my collection of baseball cards were like idols to me. Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Willie Stargell, the Niekros – Phil and Joe – Ron Guidry, Don Sutton, George [...]
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Strike one and strike two… I guess we’re both out.
Bent on World Domination
Your underwhelming correspondent is slowly spreading his tentacles around the interweb.
Check out my guest post on America’s game over at esmon dot net. And I’m delighted to have one of my science posts picked up by Tangled Bank, a biweekly blog carnival featuring the best science and medicine posts in the blogosphere. See which one [...]
This I Believe
Annie Savoy: What do you believe in, then?
Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to [...]
Great Interview of the Week: Beware of charismatic populists leading private armies
Most of my interviewing lately has been of bands and posted over at A Free Man. But I haven’t abandoned the format on this site and I’ve got a cracker for you today!
I am a huge fan of podcasts. I listen to all my favorite American radio programs as podcasts, which helps to assuage the [...]
Philosophy
“Go ahead you can
Laugh all you want
I got my philosophy
Keeps my feet on the ground
And I trust it like the ground…”
-Ben Folds – “Philosophy”
I’ve always admired the eternal optimists among you – those who look for the silver lining, walk on the sunny side of the street or always look at the bright side of [...]
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Missouri Tigers 41, Texas Tech Red Raiders 10
Boston Red Sox 12, Cleveland Indians 2
South Africa 15, England 6
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Sporting Saturday
The Dawgs have the week off to prepare for Florida and the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville next week. That gives me time to look at some of the other sport going on in the world and it’s a big day for it this Saturday.
In the world of college football there are a [...]
Autumn Leaves
One by one the flowers fading in my garden
One by one the leaves are falling from the trees…”
-Woody Guthrie – “One By One”
While walking through the Parks yesterday, I noticed some of the leaves on the trees around Keble starting to turn and drop. Then while biking home last night a little bit late from [...]
It’s the cheating, dummy.
“Grandma’s home by the radio
On the television watching Joe
She jerks the beard off of Grandpa’s chin
Joe DiMaggio’s done it again…”
“DiMaggio Done It” – Woody Guthrie
There’s not much to say about the Barry Bonds thing – which is why I didn’t say much about it when it happened. Everyone knew it was inevitable. It’s the worst [...]
Political Friday: Winning the Headline War
“I filled the whole front page with the catchiest words I could find, believe me, come back. Fake headlines, believe them, come back.”
-[tag]The New Pornographers[/tag] – “Fake Headlines”
I’ve been gone from the States a fair while now and some of the news coming from Fortress America this week has me wondering if I’ve lost touch [...]
What You’re Saying