Yesterday, family and friends from different areas of my life were brought together, through our plans — and through baseball! We dropped the dogs at the daycare place in the late morning, then headed back to the BART station. (I noticed that regular parking is $3.00, which means the reservation
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Politics and its Discontents: Competition Between America’s Two National Sports Erupts
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I recently completed three booklists for library customers, part of a system-wide readers’ advisory project. The lists use good gender balance, and a strong representation of people of colour and LGBT themes. I did classics, award-winning nonfiction, and essay collections. I love readers’ advisory, and I really enjoyed the challenge of
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I stopped following this baseball season a while back. The 2019 Red Sox are not very good, and I’m perfectly happy to enjoy my first summer on beautiful Vancouver Island without them. But it’s not just the lackluster Red Sox that are keeping me away. I’m disgusted and deeply saddened
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Thank you Alex Cora, Mookie Betts, David Price, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Jackie Bradley Jr., Hector Velazquez, Christian Vazquez, Eduardo Núñez, and Sandy Leon! These players and their manager declined to attend the White House visit purporting to honour the 2018 championship team. The Trump White House could not be bothered
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: jackie robinson: a biography
I finished reading this fine biography a while ago, but I’ve been having trouble writing about it. It was very good. If some parts were a bit too detailed for me (which is bound to happen if a biography is comprehensive), parts were thrilling, fascinating, sad, and very moving. There
Continue readingwmtc: jackie robinson: "i owe more to canadians than they’ll ever know."
Let me set the scene. The year is 1946. The United States is deeply segregated. The birth of the civil rights movement that would begin as African-American soldiers returned home to Jim Crow, after fighting for democracy abroad, is still a good 10 years away. Newlyweds Jackie and Rachel Robinson
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108-54 3-1 4-1 4-1 119 wins It was a magical season. Red Sox owner John Henry said it himself: “This is the greatest Red Sox team ever.” In 2007, I dubbed the championship — and the team — inevitable. It stuck, and became the theme of our gamethreads. Last night
Continue readingwmtc: in which baseball makes me pull an all-nighter: 2018 world series game 3
Last night, the Red Sox and Dodgers, and their fans, survived the longest World Series game in baseball history. Somehow I watched til the end and am still at work today! Joy of Sox (a/k/a Allan) says: The clock on my desk read 3:30 AM when Max Muncy hit an
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2018 Red Sox To-Do List✔ Win the division with unprecedented number of wins. ✔ Beat the Yankees in the ALDS. ✔ Beat the Astros in the ALCS. __ Win the World Series. __ Mookie Betts wins American League MVP award.
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It is the Year of the Mookie. 108 wins. Eight games up. 11 wins to go. That is all.
Continue readingwmtc: mlb.tv, roku, and appletv: why is this so difficult?
If you’re an app developer for MLB, or if you’re with Roku or AppleTV, skip down to the final paragraphs! Because Allan and I follow a baseball an out-of-town baseball team, we subscribe to MLB.TV, and have done so for ages. As much as I dislike pay-per-TV services, being able
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This Red Sox team has been driving me crazy, seesawing between amazing and horrendous. I don’t have a lot of optimism right now, especially after our dismal showing against Houston… the team we meet in the first round of playoffs. Dear Red Sox, Please be amazing. Love always, A fan
Continue readingPostArctica: Dan Bern – the year-by-year home run totals of the great barry bonds
Had the pleasure once again of seeing Dan Bern in person at Turbo Haus in Saint Henri on Saturday. He played this song and I was stunned as I consider it to be one of the greatest post-” “-postmodern songs ever!
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In between my infrequent posts, the Red Sox’s postseason came and went. As Basil Fawlty says, blink and you missed it. It was a strange baseball season for Sox fans. In late June, it looked like another lost cause, and I drifted away, preferring binge-watching on Netflix to sitting through
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Thank you and goodbye.
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The Red Sox are cruising into the postseason, something I didn’t think I’d see during the dog days of summer. Our beloved Big Papi is saying goodbye with a chart-topping season, fans all over the country enjoying a glut of Ortizmania. But truly, the most momentous baseball story this season
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Library smackdown? Toronto Public Library vs. Kansas City Library, via Twitter.
Continue readingTrashy's World: How the Jays might affect the election results. Maybe.
Hey fans of sports and politics! Check it out: if the Jays do win the AL East, they will be in the ALDS starting on October 8. Advance polls are from the 9th to the 12, inclusive… meaning that on three of the five advance polling date, many would-be voters
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Does Cuba Get an MLB Team Now?
So, there have been 181 Major League Baseball players from Cuba [population 11 million], 230 from Puerto Rico [population 3.5 million] [which is kind of like America, despite its second class political status], and 557 from the Dominican Republic [population 9.5 million]. My friend, who cares not about baseball, asked
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