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And now for more Baseball and Les Carpenter: Les, is it true you were named after famed WKRP news reporter and two time Silver Sow Award winner Les Nessman?
Les Carpenter: No, unfortunately. I don't think I could have handled the turkey giveaway disaster with the dignity of Les Nessman.
It does remind me of the episode when he met Loni Anderson's boyfriend, a guy named Steel. Steel says "I always think a man's name says a lot about him, what was your's again?"
Les Nessman: "um Les"
Thanks for pointing to Ken's post. I don't always read the other Toaster blogs, and I'm glad I didn't miss it.
The emotion about his family was rendered wonderfully. But I was also struck by his "Why I blog" comments. I comment a lot, but haven't taken the leap into blogging, in part because I would have to shed my anonymity. But I'm creeping ever closer to it, and Ken's piece certainly provides an emotionally compelling rationale that might trump all my doubts.
Anyway thank you. It's tremendous how much sustenance your readers can get from what's supposed to be just a baseball blog.
"On the sixteenth signal, the pitcher just had to laugh. 'Well that one really takes the cake, doesn't it? That really took brains. Come over here a minute,' he said to the infielders. 'All right,' he called back down to the catcher, 'go ahead, shoe them your new brainstorm.' To the four players up on the mound with him, the pitcher whispered, 'Catch this,' and pointed to the signal that the catcher, in his mortification, was continuing to flash from between his legs. "Hey," said the Lunatic third-baseman, "that ain't even a finger, is it?"
--from The Great American Novel by Philip Roth (1973)
For the whole column
http://tinyurl.com/dlzxp
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5164460
hmmmmm
vr, Xei
Reporting Bradley and Antonio Perez for Andre Ethier. Top Prospect, but....
Who can fill me in on Ethier?
Who can fill me in on Ethier?
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