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Celebrating the good, the true and the beautiful in baseball and beyond and calling out everything that is not - a comic jambalaya of political satire, word play, nature-love, poetry and all things that generate wonder and love of life. And baseball.
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The Joyous Big-Data-Busting Theatre of Mad Max (opens the original)
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The ceaseless pursuit of data to quantify the value of any endeavour is catastrophic to true understanding. David Eggers The CircleJust started reading Jill Lepore’s book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.<img alt=""
Bring Out Your Dead (opens the original)
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The Jays were dead in May. Five straight losses to the Tampa Bay Rays. The Monty Python Bring Out Your Dead cart came for them. Blue Jay fans were hanging Jeff Hoffman and Brendon Little in social media effigy. Do not ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zMVv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F837965e9-167
Thai Horror Movies, the Blue Jay Productivity Mega Deduction Offense, and the Stillness of a Southampton Sunset (opens the original)
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Last night we went to see a movie at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It was a Thai horror movie called Inherit, about a centipede that takes over the host bodies of beautiful women, offering them lasting youthful beauty and power, but which has to find new host bodies as the old ones eventually decay and age.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Km8G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.
The Meatball Challenge to the Peaceful Mind (opens the original)
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To see a man fearless in danger, untainted by lust, happy in adversity, composed in turmoil, and laughing at all those things which are either coveted or feared by others – all men must acknowledge, that this can be nothing else but a beam of divinity animating a human body.*SenecaThe Jays are playing the Sacravegas Athletics this week. The former Oakland A’s are sharing the Sutter Health Park with the Sacramento River Cats while they wait for their two billion dollar Las Vegas monolith to be bu
The “Real Work” of Wendell Berry, the Blue Jays Project Hail Mary and the Serene Goat of Prince Edward County (opens the original)
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It may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real work,and that when we no longer know which way to gowe have come to our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not employed.The impeded stream is the one that sings.The Real Work, by Wendell BerryThe Blue Jays Project Hail Mary Woke up this morning and realized it’s September. I must be really retired now because my body isn’t
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