My mind races. I can feel the fear rising up in me as he nervously inches towards me. This short slightly overweight goofy looking guy in glasses is making a beeline right for me. This isn’t right. If I was standing in front of an elevator or a staircase I might understand, but I’m not. [...]
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I Hate you Now Leave me Alone
September 10, 2010
Exploring My Nerd Tendencies
September 9, 2010
Do stat nerds like being called stat nerds? Would they prefer to be called something other than that, like sabrminded or number cruncher? I don’t really consider myself a stat nerd. Maybe others would. When I talk about batters I don’t even look at batting average and RBI. I want to know the triple slash [...]
Out of the Cave
August 2, 2010
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11 Baseball might be the greatest sport on earth. In what other sport can abject misery turn to joy so quickly? Sitting there [...]
A Return to Innocence
July 28, 2010
Lacking understanding is dangerous. I don’t want the first thing I say on here to be how I never liked Cubs fans, but I never liked Cubs fans. At the same time I lacked understanding. I didn’t understand that the same Cubs fans that invade out of town parks are the same as the Penguin [...]
A Blind Defense of Inception
July 16, 2010
http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/can-someone-please-explain-inception-me This won’t be about baseball. I do sometimes have other interests and one of my interests that has waned since getting married is going to the movies. Inception is a movie that I want to see. I think it might be worth the $20 or so I have to pay to see it with [...]
Clinical Obsession
July 12, 2010
This past Saturday I took my mother to watch the Nationals lose to the San Francisco Giants 10-5. On the way home she asked me a question I could not answer, a question that I simply found puzzling. She, like I guess all mothers do, asked this question in the form of a statement. She [...]
The Adam Dunn Question
July 8, 2010
There is a pleasure derived from watching Adam Dunn swing a bat. He is a big lumbering mountain of humanity. He is someone that has stepped out of the pages of folk tales, a mythic hero like Paul Bunyan or Hercules. He is strong, fierce, determined to give it his all in every plate appearance. [...]
Understanding the Beauty of Ryan Zimmerman
July 6, 2010
There is a quiet beauty in the way Ryan Zimmerman plays the game of baseball. The effortless dives towards the foul lines, the barehanded scoops on slow rollers, and the quiet stance with his arms raised and eyes lowered, it all just seems so easy. If the statement were made that Ryan Zimmerman is a [...]
Don’t Call Before October
June 30, 2010
If the Nationals go on to lose 100 games and last night’s win becomes completely meaningless then this might be the longest summer of my life. I can say with confidence than I am looking forward to OCTOBER more than Dane Cook ever did. The reason for this is I once again bet against the [...]
Strasburg and Strikes
June 24, 2010
The big Strasburg debate of the day is if a pitcher can throw too many strikes. I remember reading one time that Bob Gibson did not like the philosophy of the waist pitch. He felt that if you had a hitter in the hole you attacked. I am also not sure that a ball off [...]
