Holden Caulfield is a beast.
If you’re bored at work today, look online, maybe in the new yorker online archives for a copy of A Perfect Day for Bananafish…
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1922-2010If you have a chance and like reading history books in your free time, check out:
A People’s History of the United States.
I endorse it. It affected me deeply, similar to the way reading Vonnegut for the first time did, which is odd, I think.
Zinn’s You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train is the inspiration for Pearl Jam’s Down.
Probably some Slaugherthouse Five parallels.
Anyone with any league news feel free to post it in the comments.
thanks for reading, er, watching…
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also, I turned 29 today.
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I can work with this.
As has been mentioned, we’ve got some holes to fill and there are some free agents on the market.
hypothetically…
Cool
Casale
DeFilippo
Dunn
Wojton
Scioscia
McCray
J. Smith
Guthrie
Gwin
I’m not sayin’…I’m just sayin’
That would be a solid 1-10, and we’d have pitching depth and a great bench.
I’m all for it.
Trust my judgment.
Caveat:
We know from last year that its not wise to count your Ducks before they hatch.
Who knows where those guys wind up; after seeing that video, I almost want to join the Militia.
Quack.
What am I going to do on the blog with no Gray Bats, Rebels, or Owlz this summer…all the villains are gone except the Black Sox…
The Joker sporting green and purple
The only solution is for the Ducks to turn heel like Hulk Hogan did when he joined the NWO back in the day.
Quack.
The big pending change in the league is the proposed move to 3 divisions
Is it necessary?
I’m of the mind that if it ultimately just leads to a slightly unbalanced schedule it will work, but I think a greater competitive balance (as opposed to last year when there was a drastic gap between the very best and very worst teams) could still be struck by simply creating a rookie division, and splitting into A and rookie. or A and AA
The Hurricanes won the championship last year, the heavily favored Owlz didn’t make it out of the conference semi’s. No knock on the Fightin’s (or last year’s defending champ, Z-Men) the Canes earned it, but their victory came after a season in which they finished dead last, underscoring the ability of any team to make a run.
Except the Gray Bats who dissolved having never defeated the Ducks in four attempts.
Ultimately I will support whatever decision we vote on, and whatever the Commish decides, but i think we should consider what we hope to accomplish as a league by dividing into rookie, A, and AA, and see if there is a simpler way to attain it, so we don’t have a 4 team division, in which those teams play the same 3 teams 6 times a season.
I wasn’t at the league meeting.
I’d like to see a traditional playoff format with series, followed by an intra league tourney, which i think is in the works.
I’m a baseball traditionalist, and I also want what is best for the league – to attract and retain players of all skill levels and abilities, which I believe is what we hope to do by splitting into 3 divisions. Again I don’t know the ins and outs, and I know the Commish operates soley with the growth and stability of the Pgh NABA in mind.
I’m asking for ontemplation on this issue before we vote on a format everyone bitches about all summer. Both formats can work, but it is important that the managers consider the implications of the split and to vote with the league’s best interest in mind.
Either way we get to play ball and that’s the important thing.
Joe Graff is my hero.
Quack.
