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Joy In Mudville: February 2010
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Friday, February 12, 2010. No, Thank You. Which is sort of like hiring a hooker but only for a$10 hand job and rationalizing that it's cheaper than the $100 you'd have to spend for sex, so the less-than-ideal result is okay. Because, the thinking goes, it's only ten bucks! What, you might be asking yourself, does all this have to do with sports? Well, you impatient bastards, I'm getting there. And not to belabour the point, because I'm reaching the en...
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Joy In Mudville: Down From the Door Where It Began
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Sunday, December 6, 2009. Down From the Door Where It Began. When you just start to watch sports, you tend to gravitate towards the winners. We're all born little bandwagoners. Our parents or friends have to teach us to root for the local team(s), because when you're young and without influence, you just root for the best. Why am I talking about this? Allen BubbaChuck Iverson. That's why. Go watch that Michael Jordan Hall Of Fame press conference agai...
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Joy In Mudville: April 2009
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Don't Look at My Finger, Look at the Moon. That's a pretty common thing, the pinnacle of one sport being hated by their rivals. But there's something corollary to that I've noticed and wanted to talk about: the indifference by modern media to that peak. And I mean this point very esoterically, because all my evidence is anecdotal and I'm sure a google search will clarify that the numbers skew even. So here goes:. Stuff we lo...
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Joy In Mudville: CHAMPION
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Posted by The Backwards K. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter.
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Joy In Mudville: August 2009
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Thursday, August 27, 2009. Personality Goes A Long Way. Other alternatives we discussed to the above caption:. How to stop worrying and love the syringe". See, Barry, why couldn't you just not be an ass your whole life? They call me Mister. Wise Can't Save You Now". Posted by The Backwards K. Sunday, August 23, 2009. You Can Count On Your Fingers and Toes. The amount of times this has happened in professional baseball. Posted by The Backwards K. Com/'...
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Joy In Mudville: April 2011
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Posted by The Backwards K. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Twitter.
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Joy In Mudville: Transcendence Through Ascension
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Monday, November 16, 2009. I've been talking about the Pacquiao-Cotto fight on Saturday since it happened with my friends, trying to get at what exactly it is about Manny that we've never seen before. And for the last half of the title fight, Cotto ran backwards. Watch the fight. Even if you don't like boxing, even if you've never enjoyed a fight. Manny Pacquiao has made me a boxing fan, shown a purity of sport I didn't know could exist. C...You'll se...
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Joy In Mudville: December 2009
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The Best Allen Iverson I Can Be". Because I look the way I look, I act the way I act, I dress the way I dress, people think that I'm trying to be thug. That's just my envionrment, that's where I came from, that's what I go through in everyday life. I can't be somebody else. All I can be is the best Allen Iverson I can be. Posted by The Backwards K. Sunday, December 6, 2009. Down From the Door Where It Began. I still love m...
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Joy In Mudville: June 2010
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Thursday, June 3, 2010. Out With The Old. Jim Joyce fucked it up. Then, as he usually does, Selig made the wrong decision. That's the short version. I don't have too much to say here; most of the discussion has already taken place (most eloquently here. And jumbotrons hasn't changed what Baseball is. Let's embrace the idea that a system of umpire review can do the same. Once and for all - it's not "modernization" to advocate technology to ensure corre...
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Joy In Mudville: November 2009
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Protecting baseball from the tyranny of the majority. Monday, November 16, 2009. I've been talking about the Pacquiao-Cotto fight on Saturday since it happened with my friends, trying to get at what exactly it is about Manny that we've never seen before. And for the last half of the title fight, Cotto ran backwards. Watch the fight. Even if you don't like boxing, even if you've never enjoyed a fight. Manny Pacquiao has made me a boxing fan, shown a purity of sport I didn't know could exist. C...You'll se...
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