• Posts Tagged ‘baseball’

    The Ends

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    While trying to come up with a meaningful topic for the morning, I spent a while online tracking my friend Ben finishing the Charlottesville Marathon. Several miles from the finish line, he was being paced by the women’s leader of the race, and he was slowly creeping closer to her. It was good drama,...

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    Scrappers

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    Tonight was game 5 between the Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs for the National League Division Championship. The winner would go on to play the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. I was ready to watch it at 6 PM. I was still watching it at 10:30, chewing my nails and covering my...

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    Tacos and ‘Topes

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    Last Thursday, Paul texted me and asked if I was up for one more Isotopes game. This week was the last week of the regular season. Yes. Baseball is always a good getaway. Good deal. We’ll touch base next week. Tonight, the Isotopes played the Reno Aces, farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks. I...

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    Play Ball

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    Today, it was a Monday. And on top of being a Monday, about 4 this afternoon while we were at work downtown, it started to rain on our locale heavily, and that little rain event hung around for a good long while. Thankfully, it cleared up before 7 PM so that the Isotopes baseball...

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    Manager WAR 2

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    After yesterday’s post, I had a little time today to follow through with an inquiry on Google about a Manager WAR statistic, and sure enough, several other baseball fans had the same question. It turns out one fan even suggested such a metric. Adam Darowski (adarowski), a current contributor to SBNation and sabermetrician, wrote...

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    Manager WAR

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    There was a brief kerfuffle in the Cubs media room last night before Chicago starter John Lackey stepped into- and earned- his 7th loss of the year in New York. Lackey, the crazy-eyed charger in Chicago’s stable of previously stalwart starters, is off this year, and in 13 starts, the elder pitcher is 4-7...

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    Flow

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    Today I got up and made coffee and showered and dressed and fed the cats and drove to work and got a breakfast burrito at the store around the corner and then talked to Dede for a minute and then worked a lot on making a huge old form work and then worked on...

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    Easter Weekend 2017

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    Easter Weekend was a good and mellow experience this year. I didn’t do much on Saturday, which was okay, because I had a dull headache all day- a carryover from Friday night. The Lobo baseball team played a weekend series with a good Missouri State team from Thursday through Saturday, and afer the Lobos...

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    Clinched!

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    Anyone who knows me knows I get caught up in the minutae of Cubs, largely because the Cubs are a grandly symbolic team. Despite what they accomplish this year, I imagine the Cubs have captured the imagination of many sports fans because they are a study in endurance, futility, disappointment, and hope as they...

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    Why I Love Baseball (Two): The Cubs

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    It was during summer in ’98, even before I picked up my somewhat ordered life and threw it 1300 miles east at that huge Midwestern metropolis, that I had started to pay attention to them. Maybe it was because they were often on WGN, filling afternoon and evening time slots on the national cable...

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    Why I Love Baseball (One)

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    It’s not because I am a great athlete that I caught the bug. Or maybe it is because I’m not a great athlete that I did. I don’t know. And it’s not that it’s been this lifelong passion. There were probably 15 to 20 years that I didn’t think about it at all, between...

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    When Friend Requests Become Friendships

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    It was about three years ago this month that I somehow ended up sending a Facebook friend request to this guy named Derek on the East Coast. I’d like to say I remember the exact reason for the outreach, but I don’t recall what prompted it. What I do remember is, as a web...

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    I • Beginnings

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    When I was in elementary school, I was pretty anonymous, and quiet. For at least the first year of it, I was considered developmentally challenged- well, at least by my parents, until they realized I wasn’t simply stupid, but just blind. I don’t remember a whole lot from elementary school specifically. I showed up....

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