The Baseball Project — Vol. 2: High And Inside. Out 3/1, Yep Roc Records. Sometimes I’m pretty sure that I’m the only person who loved the Baseball Project’s 2009 release Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails as much as I did; it was in my top 25 for that year. I loved it because…
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why college baseball matters
Today is college baseball’s opening day. This is a post that I’ve been trying to write, in a variety of formats, for at least three years now; since the summer of 2008, when I bristled at Red Sox fans bandwagoning on to the Carolina train in the College World Series, calling our I-hate-your-feelings-just-shut-up-and-pitch catcher by…
happy pitchers and catchers day!
Matt Wieters: the subject of all love songs ever written. Happy pitchers and catchers!
wait for spring
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers Hornsby With the World Series done, all that’s left to do this off-season is count the days until pitchers and catchers (102, if you want to…
baseball: tides @ bulls, september ’10
Forty one. Final game of the regular season. The Bulls go on to the International League playoffs and the Tides go home for the year, but at least they made it interesting; today’s game went 12 innings. The Bulls won, 6-5. Above, bottom: Zach (left) and Buck (right) Britton are brothers. Zach, younger by 18…
baseball: braves @ bulls, september ’10
Forty. I don’t care at all about the Braves’ farm team as a collective entity, but I’m not going to lie, I’m kind of into Brandon Beachy in specific.
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. I haven’t been real bloggy lately, y’all, but instead I’ve been reading new mystery novels (James Lee and Alafair Burke, Emily St. John Mandel, Tim Dorsey, Tana French; waiting for Carl Hiassen and Sara Paretsky), coverage of the Orioles’ 8-1 run under Buck Showalter (theory:…
baseball: indy indians @ durham bulls, august ’10
Thirty seven and thirty eight. Bulls rained out Thursday equals a 7-inning double header on Friday; we saw the last six innings of the first game, and the first five of the second. Bulls and Indians split. Notable about the Indianapolis Indians: they are not the Triple A farm club of the Cleveland Indians, which…
baseball: bluefield o’s @ burlington royals
Thirty six. Not gonna lie: rookie league baseball is Not Good Baseball. But, hey, the Orioles won two in a row! Sure, it’s the Bluefield Orioles — but it’s a start, right? Try not to think about the big club’s bullpen while you tell yourself that.
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