Category: Baseball
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The Year of Luigi
Hey there. It’s been a minute. This is the part where you probably expect me to be a bit coy and rhetorically ask if anything big happened in the news while I was away. Let’s not do that. Two big things happened: the Mets signed Clay Holmes and Griffin Canning. Okay, I had to make… Read more
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O Canada
The Mets are done, but the ride was worth it. You can read many wonderful pieces about their majestical run. I don’t have anything to say that more professional sportswriters haven’t already said. I am sad that it ended, but so glad that it happened. That about sums it up. What I’m thinking about today… Read more
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The Words Escape You
I am trying to write about the last few days, and it feels like a futile endeavor. I last wrote about the supernatural, the specters and demons of history that can haunt a team. Now, it only feels appropriate to talk about the future, about possibilities. Francisco Lindor will be 37 years old in 2031,… Read more
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Exorcisms on the Diamond
I did not see The Exorcist until I was in high school. I watched it in a film history class on a TV suspended in the corner of the room, evoking the hospital rooms that the young and possessed Regan finds herself in throughout the first half of the film. Last year a very forgettable… Read more
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So You’re the Mayor of a Baseball Town?
Happy Indictment Day! As we all know, New York is the main character and there’s nothing Los Angeles can do about it. Today, as we all eagerly await the unsealing of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s federal indictment charges, I encountered something from one of those sickos at Politico that tickled me. This is not the… Read more