Jottings from the Granite Studio

Sam over at The Useless Tree continues our conversation about the meaning of baseball in the context of ancient Chinese philosophy with a brilliant post about the “Dao of Manny.” Once again, Sam’s wonderful insights (almost) make me forget that he’s a Yankees fan. Let’s go Red Sox!….袜子都红/太阳升/波士顿出了一个大绿墙(城?) Okay…so I’ll leave the poetry for other [...]

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I saw this too late to include it in the Friday Happy Hour but it’s worth posting. In a fabulous profile of Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez in this week’s New Yorker, Ben McGrath quotes the man-child slugger as saying:
“I like to travel, man,” he said. “I been to Europe—you know, Spain. Dominican, Aruba, [...]

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