“I sure do wish that Danny and Gordo would wear helmets if they’re going to ride that Harley all the over the field. They might hit TC, and that would be a disaster for everyone involved…” Read more →
Posts tagged: Minnesota Twins
CONVERSATIONS REAL & IMAGINED: LAST NIGHT AT THE BALLPARK
THE NEUROTIC TIGER: FAREWELL TO TARGET FIELD…
…at least for this dismal, miserable season.
Call it what you will–a collective collapse on the part of suddenly mediocre players, a perfect storm of injury after injury after injury, a sickening revelation that the youth of tomorrow are totally inept, or one of various curses (the curse of the trees, of the Metrodome, of J.J. Hardy)–this has been the worst baseball season in Minnesota since my wife and I moved here in 1994. Nothing, virtually nothing, went right. Read more →
I WAS AT THAT GAME, I WAS
Last night I dreamt that I visited Tiger Stadium. I visit the old house frequently in the night-it’s a part of the Sleep City that I live in now and again. Sleep City isn’t Detroit, not entirely, just as it isn’t New York or Chicago. They’re approximations, amalgams of the city as I imagine it from books and movies, past experiences there, and whatever residual shit from the day asserts itself in my slumber.
Last night it was Detroit, a bit friendlier, perhaps, though still run down. The streets are never straight, which is unlike the Motor City, but curved so that you can never see very far, mazelike and mysterious.
