Looking forward to hearing about your new book, Joe. I envisage something akin to the love child of Zinn’s People’s History of The United States and Ken Burns’ Baseball doc in your wonderful prose and enthusiasm for baseball history, stats and research. The tone of the Vin Scully piece was perfect.
Joe - your Curt Schilling write-up for the Baseball 100 is one of the best pieces of writing that I read this year. What an amazing way to capture the totality of such a complex topic. Thanks for sharing your gift with all of us so very often. Happy New Year!
Movies are far worse now than 20 years ago. That means fewer people are willing to pay the money just to see a movie. Hollywood has to make that lost revenue up somehow :).
I just go late. They make it super easy. You can reserve your seats, and you just subtract 20-25 minutes to the start time of the movie. In fact, I made up a game of sorts. I try to time it perfectly....where I walk in, sit down, and the movie starts. I call that a “Postastic.” At least I do since 10 seconds ago.
Thanks Joe, and happy new year to you and yours! Still looking for that book tour stop in Motown. I want to make a comment - not a complaint - about the Baseball 100. I've been a subscriber to your blog about from the start, and I have to say it's without question the best I've ever been part of, for two reasons. One is your writing - I've enjoyed most everything you've written sports or otherwise, and I feel the same about this iteration of the Baseball 100. But the other reason has been my fellow JoeBlog posters - their comments have almost always stayed within the frameworks of the topic and have been intelligent and reasoned, without ever dipping to the "you're stupid no you're stupid" level. Alas, I can't say the same about The Athletic comments. I suppose it's the inevitable price to pay for writing to a broad audience, but I've pretty much given up reading past the end of your columns over there. * Sigh *
Had a similar experience when we attended Ford v Ferrari, but it was the trailers that seemed endless. There were literally 30 minutes of trailers, so many that they simply blended into each other, and we couldn’t remember a specific one after the actual movie, which in itself was another 2.5 hours long. But we did enjoy the flick, which was a throwback to another era of movie-making. And, to be perfectly clear, I enjoy Avengers and Star Wars, so I’m no movie snob. But sometimes, I just want to see something about ... life.
I held my nose and voted for Sepinwall despite last year's draft. Potato latkes (seriously underrated), brisket, and chocolate chip cookies for Santa (inevitably for me, of course) just edged out Nick's also delicious team.
I’m another lifelong baseball fan that have fallen under the allure of hockey in recent years. My friend is a die-hard Dallas Stars fan and has season tickets with two seats including one that often went empty until I started going with him. Even though the pacing of the game is completely different from that of baseball, I found myself drawn in to the pure physicality and unpredictable nature of the sport. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve missed some of the minor hot stove news just because I’m busy watching hockey games instead. Having gotten into hockey watching the defensive-minded Stars, I can’t imagine how exciting it must be to watch the “bunch of jerks” do their thing in North Carolina. I hope you and your girls will continue to grow in your love for the sport, even if the NHL is unfathomably shady as a governing organization.
Sooo true. Saw Star Wars film. Walked in curious. 35 minutes later— several cycles of commercials — was pissed/disinterested/deflated. Totally changed viewing experience. Someone call Disney. Tell them to proscribe NO —or up to 3 max —adverts. Or stop putting movies in theaters. That kind of hostage taking lead in negatively impacts their (re)viewers, and their product sales.
Looking forward to hearing about your new book, Joe. I envisage something akin to the love child of Zinn’s People’s History of The United States and Ken Burns’ Baseball doc in your wonderful prose and enthusiasm for baseball history, stats and research. The tone of the Vin Scully piece was perfect.
Joe - your Curt Schilling write-up for the Baseball 100 is one of the best pieces of writing that I read this year. What an amazing way to capture the totality of such a complex topic. Thanks for sharing your gift with all of us so very often. Happy New Year!
Movies are far worse now than 20 years ago. That means fewer people are willing to pay the money just to see a movie. Hollywood has to make that lost revenue up somehow :).
I just go late. They make it super easy. You can reserve your seats, and you just subtract 20-25 minutes to the start time of the movie. In fact, I made up a game of sorts. I try to time it perfectly....where I walk in, sit down, and the movie starts. I call that a “Postastic.” At least I do since 10 seconds ago.
Thanks Joe, and happy new year to you and yours! Still looking for that book tour stop in Motown. I want to make a comment - not a complaint - about the Baseball 100. I've been a subscriber to your blog about from the start, and I have to say it's without question the best I've ever been part of, for two reasons. One is your writing - I've enjoyed most everything you've written sports or otherwise, and I feel the same about this iteration of the Baseball 100. But the other reason has been my fellow JoeBlog posters - their comments have almost always stayed within the frameworks of the topic and have been intelligent and reasoned, without ever dipping to the "you're stupid no you're stupid" level. Alas, I can't say the same about The Athletic comments. I suppose it's the inevitable price to pay for writing to a broad audience, but I've pretty much given up reading past the end of your columns over there. * Sigh *
Had a similar experience when we attended Ford v Ferrari, but it was the trailers that seemed endless. There were literally 30 minutes of trailers, so many that they simply blended into each other, and we couldn’t remember a specific one after the actual movie, which in itself was another 2.5 hours long. But we did enjoy the flick, which was a throwback to another era of movie-making. And, to be perfectly clear, I enjoy Avengers and Star Wars, so I’m no movie snob. But sometimes, I just want to see something about ... life.
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I held my nose and voted for Sepinwall despite last year's draft. Potato latkes (seriously underrated), brisket, and chocolate chip cookies for Santa (inevitably for me, of course) just edged out Nick's also delicious team.
I’m another lifelong baseball fan that have fallen under the allure of hockey in recent years. My friend is a die-hard Dallas Stars fan and has season tickets with two seats including one that often went empty until I started going with him. Even though the pacing of the game is completely different from that of baseball, I found myself drawn in to the pure physicality and unpredictable nature of the sport. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve missed some of the minor hot stove news just because I’m busy watching hockey games instead. Having gotten into hockey watching the defensive-minded Stars, I can’t imagine how exciting it must be to watch the “bunch of jerks” do their thing in North Carolina. I hope you and your girls will continue to grow in your love for the sport, even if the NHL is unfathomably shady as a governing organization.
Sooo true. Saw Star Wars film. Walked in curious. 35 minutes later— several cycles of commercials — was pissed/disinterested/deflated. Totally changed viewing experience. Someone call Disney. Tell them to proscribe NO —or up to 3 max —adverts. Or stop putting movies in theaters. That kind of hostage taking lead in negatively impacts their (re)viewers, and their product sales.