"Baseball is like sex.
There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career.
Making love is like hitting a baseball:
You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hitting under .250, not unless he had a lot of RBI and was a great glove man up the middle.
You see, there's a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys.
I can expand their minds.
Sometimes when I got a ballplayer alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him, and the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen.
'Course, a guy'll listen to anything, if he thinks it's foreplay.
I make them feel confident, and they make me feel safe, and pretty.
'Course, what I give them lasts a lifetime; what they give me lasts 142 games.
Sometimes it seems like a bad trade.
But bad trades are part of baseball - now who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God's sake?
It's a long season and you gotta trust it.
I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball."
Annie Savoy.
"Bull Durham"
The Wire ended 18 yrs ago today. It’s been taught in Ivy League schools, law schools & film schools. David Simon was interviewed by a sitting president about its lasting impact. Cited in a State Supreme Court ruling. Often hailed by critics as the best ever. Never won an Emmy.
The alleged assault on Todd Snider that started the saga that ended in Snider's death has been determined to be a self-inflicted injury when Snider fell in his bus, according to police.
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Did some crying this weekend over Todd Snider’s loss. Probably gonna do some more. Dear musician friends, please cover “Play A Train Song” for those of us in mourning. #playatrainsong@ToddSnider
James McMurtry’s been in his prime longer than I’ve been alive. Complicated Game sure is getting lots of listening these days. If you can’t handle the deep stuff, keep listening to the radio in your car.
Watching musicians that are incredible in their own realm cover other amazing musicians is extremely cool to me.
Hope everyone covers more Warren Zevon when time permits…. PLEASE.
So the Red Sox play tonight on a perfect evening at Fenway Park with the chance to clinch a playoff berth - and the game is on APPLE TV ONLY??!! Oh, the greed - SHAME!