Recent Posts Tagged With 'béisbol'

• It\'s like that time I hung out with Derrida and we only talked about our cats.*

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 09:23 in Academia, béisbol

  I'm easing back on the Internets by trying to find the most optimistic spin on the Jason Bay signing—Dewan ranking him at -1 runs defensively wins so far—but three of the most respected baseball minds out there are silent on the issue because the...

• "[He] was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971, when he was 18, but affects the sardonic air of an intellectual hippie."

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 15:03 in baseball, mets, béisbol, gary cohen, keith hernandez, tom seaver, ron darling

  Just in case you thought I might have exaggerated earlier, the New York Observer preserves another of their oddly erudite conversations involving violent looks: Inevitably, the conversation turned to the time the Mets—who have, amazingly, never had...

• Those are likely to be some really awkward introductions.

  Posted on Sunday July 12th, 2009 at 13:05 in baseball, mets, steve martin, the jerk, béisbol, keith hernandez, jeff francoeur, ron darling, daniel murphy, the new york mets, he hates the cans, stay away from the cans

  In May, the Mets' color team of Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling had some fun at the expense of the Braves' struggling right fielder Jeff Francoeur. Keith began by saying things like: a patient hitter is quiet at the plate......

• Are announcers with degrees in broadcast journalism better in the booth than former players?

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 22:49 in politics, baseball, supreme court, journalism, mets, yankees, irony, parody, meta, mexicans, vin scully, béisbol

  In the early days of radio and television, baseball announcers fell into their jobs. Mel Allen, "the Voice of the Yankees," was a lawyer by trade; his partner, Red Barber, caught his break while working as a janitor at a......

• I take requests: "Remember that post you wrote about playing in the outfield and writing a dissertation? I'd love to read it again, now that I'm a week away from filing my dissertation."

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 00:43 in life, Career, Students, baseball, teaching, Me, future, hope, Academia, dissertation, jose reyes, carlos beltran

  (Considering the alternatives, I love the fact that this post is the one I might be remembered for. As I noted at the time, I'd had this half-written for ages but never could quite finish it. This post is as......

• Would that I had natural wit and talent enough to play baseball professionally. (Some humility would also be nice.)

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 19:25 in baseball, writing, prose, disco, spring training, drafts, chris hayes, béisbol

  Fans of good writing (which, if you're reading this, you clearly are), I would like to introduce you to Chris "Disco" Hayes. He may be rough around the edges, but he has a sense of prose (so rare in an......

• You know you're off to poor start . . .

  Posted on Sunday May 3rd, 2009 at 16:10 in baseball, new york, mets, New York Mets, david wright, béisbol

  . . . when the AP invents words to describe your pain. And with this I stop reading the newspaper and start actually working. (Which means I have some comic books to read. Life is tough.)...