Two teams, the Red Sox and the Braves, have suffered colossal collapses and lose playoff spots for this baseball year. Due to career mobility, mine is a serialized fan history, from the Cardinals to the Braves and Diamondbacks, and in these latter days I root for the dearly departed Sox from Beantown. So […]
Posts Tagged ‘Josh Beckett’
Kill The Umpire!
September 29, 2011Despicable Them: Baseball Strikes Out
April 4, 2011Ah, just listen to the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd. But it’s not a game anymore, only a newly-minted circle of the super-rich whose teams are wagered on in office betting pools and imagined to be gods by children. Kids always felt that way about their hardball heroes, back to […]
Ichabod's Kin 