In the grand scheme of American life, nothing is so inconsequential yet invasively significant as Major League Baseball. My educated guess is that the game receives its elevated stature at the behest of admiring children, who frequently see big league baseball players as their first representation of physical and competitive excellence. As a result of [...]
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A Modest Proposal For Juicing Baseball Players
Posted in The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, idiot, Justice, MLB, pastime, Pay, Performance Enhancing Drugs, wrong on August 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ten Ways The Minors Eclipse The Majors
Posted in The Daily Life, The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, better, billings mustangs, dehler park, kill your television, Minor League Baseball, MLB, montana, pastime on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As the Billings Mustangs look to improve on their first half last-place finish (indeed one of the worst first-half performances that I’ve seen in quite awhile in any league), I’m reminded that the purpose of the minors has little to do with winning championships. Although the experience of winning a championship is fulfilling and valuable, [...]
Finally, It Starts
Posted in The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, billings, billings mustangs, cincinnati reds, cobb field, dehler park, minor leagues, montana, pastime, summer on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight’s Billings Mustangs opener at Dehler Park brings summer with it; I attended mainly because things here are about to become preposterously hot. Those who still long for the old Cobb Field appear to feel right at home in the new digs, and with very good reason. Dehler is quite easily the most personable, accessible [...]
Baseball Writers: STOP the Inappropriate Use of “Scuffle”.
Posted in Literacy & Scholarship, The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, college, dictionary, dipshit, Goose Gossage, idiot, malaprop, New York, scuffle, Steve Phillips, struggle, tirade, wrong on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I sorely hoped it would go away. Perhaps it was started by Mr. Phillips after his dismissal from the Mets, but I have to admit I don’t care all that much where it came from. Here it is in black-and-white: scuffle |ˈskəfəl| noun 1 a short, confused fight or struggle at close quarters : there [...]
A Fond Hello to Baseball Season
Posted in The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, billings mustangs, chicago cubs, cobb field, dehler park, impatience, minor leagues, montana, pastime, spring, winter, wrigley field on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who live outside the time-machine of Montana, where spring has not nearly yet arrived, baseball and its wonderful minions–green grass, warmer temperatures, cherry blossoms and perhaps planting time in your garden–is finally here. To everyone who has ever uttered a sentence about how boring baseball is, I implore you to take [...]
