… Some days, it rains.
There’s more than one way to bake a cake. But ask any pastry chef and you’ll hear there’s only one right way to bake a cake. That way, of course, is vastly different from chef to chef. Today, there is anguish on NoPepper.net. Clearly, I have a favorite baseball team. What kind of person would [...]
And then Mike Lupica came on and I vividly remember getting up on a stool and shouting, “Give us Barabbas!” – Charles Pierce on the farewell party for The National
Dad was a 3M engineer. He did a bunch of things and refused multiple promotions because he didn’t want the stress that comes from being in management. For a while, he was a teacher in their classroom facility, a building straight out of the 1960s, complete with windows that were 6-inch slats. It sat next [...]
Well, we finally got a look inside the briefcase. The new sportswriting website grantland.com made its debut yesterday, to no limited amount of fanfare, both self-generated (a countdown clock? really?) and organic. And the opening three-course menu set off no small amount of text messages, emails and discussion threads in the writing community. Initial reactions [...]
Here’s what it’s like to be a fan of an utterly awful team. You find yourself pondering the mathematical possibilities of your team actually getting back into a pennant race. Winning baseball is all pastoral pondering and poetry — the math doesn’t come until the end, and even then it’s a “magic” number. But losing [...]
I don’t like things I am supposed to like. Also, I am cheap. I’m the Andy Rooney of baseball fans. So the odds of me enjoying an afternoon in the box seats at our local minor league park — provided gratis by my employer — were pretty low. But I had hopes of free beer, [...]