Sunday, October 26, 2003
A Marlin Masterpiece
Call me a heretic or a would-be diviner; call me illucid and out of my ever-living mind. But I have maintained before, and I will maintain again, the Marlins are the purpose pitch of the spirit of baseball righteousness. When there is a wrongness in the game that no one else can defeat, they will be sent by whatever power(s) control these things to smite it.
In 1997 they were there to defeat the politics-playing, spitball-throwing Indians; they were subsequently blown up, no longer necessary to any higher purpose. When even the Red Sox' kung fu wasn't strong enough to conquer 2003's Yankees, an organization at least as monopolistic as Microsoft and, in this author's estimation, a long-term danger to baseball itself, there was Florida again to correct the problem, at least as far as possible through games alone. Steinbrenner's club is not a problem that will simply go away, of course, but then again, this year's Fish should stay put for the most part.
Perhaps we will learn, in the hopefully long future of the major leagues, to see Marlins successes as indicators of those times when baseball has been most in trouble. Or perhaps the effect I observe is nothing more than a massive Orioles bias combined with a set of anecdotal data small enough to be meaningless. I prefer the former, though, and will continue to maintain it. Thanks be to God for the Florida Marlins.
Call me a heretic or a would-be diviner; call me illucid and out of my ever-living mind. But I have maintained before, and I will maintain again, the Marlins are the purpose pitch of the spirit of baseball righteousness. When there is a wrongness in the game that no one else can defeat, they will be sent by whatever power(s) control these things to smite it.
In 1997 they were there to defeat the politics-playing, spitball-throwing Indians; they were subsequently blown up, no longer necessary to any higher purpose. When even the Red Sox' kung fu wasn't strong enough to conquer 2003's Yankees, an organization at least as monopolistic as Microsoft and, in this author's estimation, a long-term danger to baseball itself, there was Florida again to correct the problem, at least as far as possible through games alone. Steinbrenner's club is not a problem that will simply go away, of course, but then again, this year's Fish should stay put for the most part.
Perhaps we will learn, in the hopefully long future of the major leagues, to see Marlins successes as indicators of those times when baseball has been most in trouble. Or perhaps the effect I observe is nothing more than a massive Orioles bias combined with a set of anecdotal data small enough to be meaningless. I prefer the former, though, and will continue to maintain it. Thanks be to God for the Florida Marlins.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Welcome to bloggerithm. Here you will find discussion, of a depth not particularly great, of the ideas, works, and other Boromir_Jagrisms (or is that _Jagrithms?) that it occurs to me are worth sharing.
If you came here looking for something akin to my previous blog, you didn't read what I posted there. This is not The Horn. It is the logarithm of The Horn. There is to be less of it, and greater meaning in what there is.
If you came here looking for something akin to my previous blog, you didn't read what I posted there. This is not The Horn. It is the logarithm of The Horn. There is to be less of it, and greater meaning in what there is.
