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Love

Posted in baseball on October 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Baseball, for the people who read this site, is not a casual affair. It isn’t a dalliance. It’s love. And every team, or at least every core group of players, is a new relationship. For a long time, we had the kinds of relationships that are doomed from the start. Sure, there were nice moments, [...]

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Priorities

Posted in baseball, life, writing on June 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I write fiction. I want, desperately, for people to publish said fiction. The fiction I have primarily written for the last five years is a novel called Lonely Human Atoms. I am terrible at self-promotion. I do not like sending things out. This means that LHA has spent a lot of time on my hard [...]

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My Daughter Loves Baseball

Posted in baseball, fatherhood on May 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Recently, and perhaps unsurprisingly, my daughter has taken a liking to baseball. She has been seen running round the house yelling, “I love baseball,” swinging a small pestle that she pretends is a bat and wearing one of my old baseball caps (much too big for her) while opining, “I want a real baseball hat.” [...]

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Shakespeare’s Siblings (Value Over Replacement Artist)

Posted in art, baseball, books, reading, writing on April 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »

In baseball, there is a concept in advanced statistics known as VORP or Value Over Replacement Player. It is used to describe how good a player is relative to another player who could be had, more or less, for free. How this is measured isn’t as important as the concept. You see, for a very [...]

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Stories (Opening Day)

Posted in baseball, fatherhood on April 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

On a yearly basis, baseball fans are obsessed with winning the World Series. Or with getting back to the playoffs as a stepping stone to winning the World Series. Or with having a winning season so that in a year or two they can maybe go back to the playoffs and then maybe win the [...]

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Different Versions

Posted in baseball, life, teaching, thought on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Over the last year, I have gone from being a non-presence in the online baseball community to playing a moderately prominent role. I write a lot at a Reds-focused blog and I edit for a national baseball site (and write every so often). Since I started becoming more active in that community, I’ve formed online [...]

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Barry Larkin

Posted in baseball, fatherhood, life on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a while since I linked one of my baseball articles here, but I’m pretty happy of the writing I did in this post on Barry Larkin and the Hall of Fame over at Redleg Nation.

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Reviewing the Summer

Posted in baseball, because anybody cares, Cate, life, Lonely Human Atoms, music, publishing, reading, teaching, writing on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Back in June, when school was just about to let out, I had a little post detailing my goals for the summer. I thought it might be nice to review how I did (I’m back to work tomorrow). You might not find this interesting, but here it is nonetheless. 1. Finish Lonely Human Atoms – [...]

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When You Can’t Do It Anymore

Posted in baseball, life, sports on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Very soon, Scott Rolen will not be a major league baseball player. He recently went on the disabled list with a bum shoulder. It’s the same shoulder that’s been giving him trouble since 2005. He misses games because of it every year, but this year has been different. Even when he’s on the field, he [...]

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What I’m Doing with the Summer

Posted in baseball, because anybody cares, books, fatherhood, life, Lonely Human Atoms, music, publishing, teaching, writing on June 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Note: You are totally welcome to read this post, you may even find it marginally interesting, but I am writing it primarily to hold myself accountable over the summer. This summer is going to be a new experience for Cate and I. We are not getting married or having a child or buying a house. [...]

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