Entries from March 1, 2008 - April 1, 2008
Sprain Training
What is happening to my Mets? After last season's tailspin finish which inspired me for the first time to use the word "flabbergasted" I was pleased to see the Mets shed one headache (Paul LoDuca) and added the best left-handed pitcher in baseball, Johan Santana. This would be the year the Mets couldn't coast (like 2006) or expect a World Series appearance to be handed to them (2007). I bought MLB.tv so I could furtively watch and listen to games in the office while writing about NAFTA or how McCain is so annoyingly McCainish. I've got plans to spend a weekend in Philly with the boys in April to catch the Mets first road trip to a legitimate I-95 Rival. I've even got some of the more imaginative Alyssa Milano-branded Mets gear in mind for my fiancée.
But Minaya's plan to surround Wright and Reyes with veterans is starting to unravel. My spring-training mellow is seriously being harshed. Yesterday, David Lennon reports on his blog that of the 12 of the 15 projected opening day position players are currently injured. Just look at that graphic from the Daily News above. Bunion! Seriously?
At least the injury report is entertaining. Brian Schneider isn't suffering from a concussion but rather had his "Bell rung in collision " Also, Endy Chavez is "allegedly close" to returning.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Post-Modern Kirk
Please read my friend and colleague Dan McCarthy on The PoMo Russell Kirk in the latest Reason.
One of McCarthy's observations strikes me as extremely important:
There is indeed common ground here between Kirkian traditionalists and postmodernists. Both camps try to conscript the uncertainty principle, mathematician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, and Einstein’s relativity into attacks on objectivity in other fields. The Kirkians and postmodernists share a fallacy, and ironically it is a species of scientism: They wrongly apply the ideas of advanced physics and mathematics to history. It turns out that when “science” casts doubt on objectivity, the otherwise science-skeptical Kirkians and postmodernists are all for it.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Kyle Korver's Tenacious D! I Have a Blog
This is the one photo that could shock me out of my non-blogging state. Thank you Kyle Korver!
Yeah, so after promising to blog more, I write yet another overly personal and disquieting entry and stopped entirely for a few months. Sorry--sorta. I'm not sure how to please my audience of D.C. professionals, professional D.C. haters, stalkers, fashionistas, Mets fans, paleo-cons and traditional Catholics.
I've been writing some fiction in my spare time, and writing little pieces on sports for The American Spectator. My latest is on the murder of professional basketball in Seattle. Also, you'll be glad to know I'm still on my regular beat: the low I.Q. coteries found in hotel ballrooms. This time: CPAC 2008. I feel like Russell Crowe in Gladiator: Are you not entertained?!
You probably heard that my friend, Bill Buckley died last week. My small contribution to the tributes is also at the Spectator. An old high school friend recently contacted me through Facebook. He was once a waiter at a restaurant Bill frequented. He writes
He was just about the most polite and well-spoken individual I have ever met and I was kind of in awe of him (although politically I can't say that I agree with him...) He would eat lunch with a bevy of ancient women and regal them for hours over several rum punches while his stretch limo waited outside for him. One time his wife dropped something, and I went to help him find it with a flashlight (the restaurant was very dimly lit) and he proceeded to take the flashlight from me and get down on his hands and knees and look for it himself. He also called me "Captain" all the time... and I liked that.
Instead of trying to please you all. I'll please myself on this blog. It will be as obcene as it sounds.
And yes, my Buckley tribute contains some news about my personal life. More on that soon.
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