First:

some strange modern dance bit at first base there

— Harry Pavlidis (@harrypav) April 13, 2013

To Wit:

Every so often, I hit a moment where I wonder if it was such a great idea to turn something I love so much into my work. There are minutae associated with work that can drag the topic down into the doldrums. Living bare to the world on a daily basis can be exhausting. Turning on a game because you have to is a strange feeling.

Similarly (maybe), Chris Tillman may have had times where he wondered if it was going to work, and if it was all a good idea to begin with. But then he might have had one of those reaffirming moments on his second pitch to Dustin Pedroia in the fifth inning yesterday. Not a big deal, just a yakker for a strike, but it was a beauty.

And watching it spin by, over and over again in my Photoshop, I felt like yeah, yeah, this is fun. Phew.

Strange thing. There’s something in here about Duane Kuiper typing in ‘FanGraphs’ on a computer and a revealing Jon Miller popping up with a bottle of Pinot Noir. I can’t make heads or tails of it.

KNBR Giants Post-Game Wrap, 9/8

A glass of my finest Northern California Pinot to Chris Cwik for his technical expertise.

A List of Fan Stereotypes Provided by Google Correlate, Sorted by City

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This picture, which I cannot source because I cannot find where it came from, and google image search cannot find it for me, speaks to me on many different levels:

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This is the Mets postgame cap.

This is the Mets drinks after dinner hat.

This is the Mets Cinco de Mayo hat.

This is the Mets serious drinking hat.

This is the Mets jimmy hat.

To think about a piece of music critically is to wonder about where it came from, to an extent. Not only how does it make you feel, but how did the artist feel when making their art? In other words, why? Why did they do this thing. And to consider the why leads eventually to the should — should this person have made this music? If your answers to these two questions are interesting and affirmative, respectively, you probably have yourself a song worth listening to. You could really say the same of most types of art, and eventually you might consider the criticism itself with those same questions.

I have no idea why Trevor Bauer made this music as part of the duo consummate4sight, and I don’t think he should have. And yet, only bad things will come of my critique of his art, and so therefore I’ve joined this conundrum that he created. Or maybe it’s my fault.

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Josh Reddick has had a look for every moment in his life. There was the fresh-faced rook, the liquor store crustache, the Brett Michaels and the Half Mountain Man.

Now, apparently, Reddick has won a championship belt for his crooning on the latest Iron and Wine compilation, “Shepherds in Moonlight; A Journey in Sport & Music.” Reddick worked hard to look the part, and won the award for his track, “The Chameleon’s Power.”

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At the Giants Media day, I ran into Barry Zito as he was wrapping up an interview. He had C.S. Lewis’ “The Problem of Pain” sitting on his bar table.

Eno Sarris: I’m really interested in what people read on the road. That’s… not Narnia! [laughing]

Barry Zito: No. [Not laughing, but maybe smiling] No it’s not. This is my third one, but I haven’t done Narnia yet.

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This author recently made The Pliny Pilgrimmage, which is to say he woke up early, drove two hours north, and waited in line for an hour for a beer (Pliny the Younger) on a Tuesday morning. Given this *same* author’s desire to come up with a WAR-like structure for beer ratings — which recently took a lurch forward with a URL (BeerGraphs.com), a CTO (seriously), and access to the API from untappd, and all their beer ratings — it was only natural to think of baseball while on that drive to Santa Rosa.

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