Often we discuss baseball as a whole. Not as the parts that makeup baseball, but as the entire idea that is baseball played out before our eyes. There’s nothing wrong with viewing baseball this way, but the real strength of baseball for me is in the moments that make the whole of baseball possible. Never […]
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Three Batter Minimum: A Labor Awakening
I grew up in a working-class home. It never felt that way because my parents (well, parent until the man I would call Dad entered the picture years later) were the sort of Democrats who felt like they weren’t working-class. To them being working-class was bad in some way, despite the fact that we oscillated […]
Three Batter Minimum: A Different Experience
One of the things I struggle with in life is the idea that my experience is not the same as the person sitting right next to me, or across from me, or seven countries away from me. There’s an immediacy to what I experience and I often find myself operating under the assumption that others […]
MLB Brandball
I keep a Google Notes tab for this site open at all times. It’s a random collection of ideas and topics that I plan to write about at some point. Sometimes a topic will sit in that tab for a few hours before I get to it and other times it will sit there for […]
Three Batter Minimum: A New Home
I’m moving into a new house this week. It’s been a tiring experience, but a rewarding one. Emilie and I knew this day was coming and we have been looking forward to when it would finally come to pass. Most people probably share the majority of my thoughts when it comes to getting a house, […]