March 28, 2011
I am now the proud owner of a baseball team. Last night I drafted players from amongst the best that Major League Baseball has to offer, a good mix of proven veterans and rookies full of potential. I’m quite happy with my team, and as their manager I intend to lead the New York Tempests to victory!
Of course, this team only exists in the vast databases of Yahoo Fantasy Baseball, one of millions of teams in thousands of leagues where every pitch, hit, strikeout, home run, etc. in our universe is recorded and then applied to all of these others, spawning millions and millions of games whose outcomes will determine champions the world over. This may sound a bit silly, but consider the billions of stars and the potential trillions of planets out there and you’ll realize that significance is all about context.
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March 11, 2011
I just can’t get that damn song out of my head. They play it at Citi Field all the time. It’s Bryan Adams’ fault. I always think he did that one too, mostly because in 2009 they played “Summer of ’69″ at every game until August when they finally had the ’69 Mets 40th Anniversary ceremony before the game. I had tickets to it but gave them to my friend Kim and her husband, both lifelong Mets fans, to see the Phillies at the new ballpark. I met them for breakfast the next morning (they had stayed at a hotel up here in the Hudson Valley and taken the train down) and said how glad I was that now they could stop playing it at every game. It was excruciating to be waiting on line at the Shake Shack with it blaring over the speakers – “oooooh it’s gonna last for-ev-er!”
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