Many of you likely missed this link to a shot of Kevin Youkilis taking a warmup throw in the eye, leading to a big shiner.
(this link might work as well)
Anyway, that makes me feel better about my own gaffe at first base in Bois Guillaume. To be honest, I always felt a little […]
No posts for a long time, so I figured I’d give a quick update. As you know, my physical therapy from the ACL reconstruction in October went very poorly, to the point that 29 weeks out, I still couldn’t comfortably descend stairs. (By comparison, 35 weeks after my first ACL surgery on the right knee […]
I’ve been meaning to post for a while now, but life has a funny way of intervening.
I have torn my ACL. After playing rugby for four weeks, I blew my ACL in ten minute of playing flag football. I was running a stop & go pattern, and I was pissed off that we were […]
HBWT was merely resting…
Actually not sure what happened there for a week, but I got things straightened out with my hosting company and all should be well. I have a few posts I need to crank out over the next few weeks… Until then, merely enjoy this…
If you didn’t catch it, you should by all means check out this feature on Kerry Wood, the one-time can’t miss flamethrower whose awkward mechanics and unfortunate professional relationship with renowned pitcher destroyers Jim Riggleman and Dusty Baker turned his shoulder into laffy taffy.
A friend from France (Miklos, who deserves some recognition for […]
This is a trailer for a documentary on Satan & Adam, my favorite blues band and in my opinion one of the best live performers I’ve ever seen. I was lucky enough to sneak into the Press Room in Portsmouth, NH with a fake ID when I was 18 years old to catch one of […]
(Most of this was written, oh, a month ago. So sue me.)
So… I told you so. It wasn’t rocket science, so to speak. Clemens has never, ever been about anything other than the most cheddar, and as each MFY starter went down, Sias’ willingness to pay went up another few million. There is no […]
This is the problem with trying to write your predictions while taking law school classes; you finish them three or four weeks into the season and they lose all value. I promise that I will get to the NL at some point, hopefully over the weekend, although, in all honesty, that’s unlikely given the fact […]
Not a bad start for the Dice Man.
Obviously, that’s great news for any Red Sox fan, but I take special satisfaction in seeing him come in and pitch well in his debut. It can be kind of stressful to fly across the world and get shelled in your first start. Ahem.
Anyway, he throws […]
It’s always nice when, immediately after posting one’s skepticism about Felix Hernandez, he drops 12 K’s on the Athletics. However, one performance is not enough to shake my predictions, as my continued pessimism regarding Gil Meche (below) will demonstrate.
The AL Central is by far the hardest division for me to pick, and I don’t […]
This comes from my buddy Joel, famous primarily for playing a mean trombone and having the cutest child I have ever seen. He knows a lot more about the Mariners than I do, so I thought including his opinions would be worthwhile. That said, a 96 ERA+ is a 96 ERA+…
Ev,
I enjoyed the preview. […]
Just a quick note to point out my friend Chuck (originator, ironically, of the plan to go to Europe to play professional baseball) and his new project. Seattle Untimely is a very funny parody of local news in Seattle, and this clip even includes a segment where Portland, Oregon gets called out.
He’s a Mariners […]
It’s that time of year again, and rather than email them out, I’m going to post my MLB predictions here. Last year… let’s not talk about last year’s predictions. I think I guessed 3 out of 8 playoff teams and certainly didn’t predict that an 83-win Cardinals squad would win it all. Oops.
I’m going […]
Scheduled today. I have to fill out a quick NCAA bracket and then I’ll head over to surgery. By this time to night I’ll look like Jack Nicholson from Chinatown.
The second one is a little blurry, but you get the picture. Name and number! Thanks Sage, Babs, and Elisha!
Also, a quick announcement that instead of sending them out as I usually do via email, my much-maligned (and last year, woefully inaccurate) MLB predictions division by division over the next two weeks. Hope to […]
Pitchers and Catchers, my friends.
Pitchers and Catchers.
From last week’s post on great noses:
“It is probably unfair to put anyone up against Don Mossi, the only human ever designed by a committee, a very mean spirited committee. However, I submit for your consideration these three beauties, of whom I am particularly fond of Warren Spahn, both for breathtaking latitude and […]
Several private comments have been too good not to share. While it certainly makes sense to me to replace this scimitar-shaped nose with one that, you know, resembles my old nose, a few readers have suggested that I at least take a glance at the menu. As such, it makes sense to review an oft-overlooked […]
Closing the book on this HBWT experience has taken a lot longer than I thought it would. With all the hoopla around school and exams, I haven’t exactly been prolific as a blogger lately. However, here’s one tidbit: After nearly eight months, two dozen doctor visits, and scores of nose bleeds, my physician here in […]
The Quiet Storm got jobbed out of the NFL offensive rookie of the year award, finishing tied for second behind Vince Young.
I’ll be picketing NFL offices in New York all weekend.
The stress of exams has kept me from posting, but I saw this and figured it was worth putting up here. He might be able to play for a few teams in France; they do love the bunt.
As someone mentioned in a reply to last week’s post, the Gil Meche contract has truly set […]
In ascending order of ridiculousness…
$70 million for JD Drew?
$36 million for Julio Lugo?
$136 million for Alfonso Soriano?
$50 million for Gary Matthews Jr.?
$44 million for king outmaker Juan Pierre?
I could go on.
If this kind of inflation hit French baseball last year, I might have been making $450, maybe $500 a […]
In the years to come, I expect that my time in France will continue to affect me long after my final flight home in mid-October. I made friends that I will keep in touch with for the rest of my life, I gained fluency (or near-fluency) in a difficult language, and I learned that it’s […]
The hats, at long last, have arrived. Here’s one below, and if you want to be able to claim “Woodchucks 4 Life,” as I do, shoot me an email. Comes in around $20 plus shipping, which is totalling $25 in the US. They’re Flex-Fits, so you have to choose S/M or M/L, and I’m a […]
Thanks, Changer!
It is snowing in Chicago right now.
SNOWING.
This meteorological aggression cannot stand.
More later today.
I left France on Monday, August 28th, after two frustrating losses against PUC in Paris. I stayed with my friend Miklos at his apartment in the Marais, and caught a nonstop to Chicago at noon, getting in at 2:30pm Chicago time.
The weeks since have been a maelstrom of orientation events and classes that leave […]
Reports of HBWT’s demise have been greatly exaggerated; it’s not dead, it’s just resting. The first few weeks of law school have been a bit hectic, so I’ll have an update later tonight or tomorrow. In the meantime, I would like to draw your attention to three entirely awesome things.
1) A reference to my […]
Sorry for the long layoff, folks. I’ve been traveling in our four weeks off, during which I managed to see Cork, Galway, the Aran Islands, Belfast, Dublin, London, Leominster Spa, Glasgow, Barcelona, Pamplona, and Bayonne. Which one of these is not like the others?
In Pamplona, I managed to run with the bulls without being […]
No time for a real post here, but since I popped into an internet cafe, I figured I should at least take the opportunity to show you what most of my HBWT administrative matters boil down to. Basically, this blog has nearly 200 posts, but it’s already attracted over 10,000 comments. You’ll notice that only […]
Look who was quoted (albeit anonymously) by Gordon Edes in his baseball notes column this week!
P.S. that is to say, me.
Editor’s Note: I’m a little bit behind in posting, so I’m actually going to backtrack a bit and chronicle the end of last week. As I promised in my last post, I’m trying to increase the frequency of posting, and I’m aiming for five posts this week.
Check out this itinerary:
Wednesday, 11:00 PM Pacific […]
As I write this, I find myself entering the seventh hour of a marathon ten-hour layover at JFK. I flew through Amsterdam last Wednesday to San Francisco, where I spent the week seeing friends, smoothing things over with my girlfriend, and eating burritos. Lots of them. An average of more than one per day. In […]
As some of you may remember, the Woodchucks’ opponent this weekend is Savigny, my former team. Obviously, the teams are having two very different seasons. Savigny is battling Rouen and Toulouse for the league title, while the Woodchucks are battling to stay in the elite division. In fact, the only thing the two teams […]
Note to Rick Sutcliffe: Stop being hammered on live television.
The following is an email from my sister, whose PhD (she’s the smart one, as I’ve said many a time) in Cultural Anthropology at Wisconsin has brought her to Tokyo for a summer of research. As you’ll see below, Meaghers, in general, tend to encounter a surplus of bizarre, surreal situations, be they Tokyo Cab […]
Just a quick update- don’t know if this has made it back to the states, but there is a Huh-yuge Italian soccer scandal going on right now. It’s nuts. Everyone, right on down to the host of a soccer TV show, has been implicated. As my Dad put it, it’s as if the Black Sox […]
Check out the article in the Washington Post on another crazy baseball-playin’ Meagher!
Check out the pub that HBWT got in the Boston Globe!
p.s. a few minor inaccuracies but overall very cool!
A fling with French baseball
Banker abandoned job to play game he loves
By Chris Forsberg, Globe Correspondent | May 7, 2006
The irony that he had quit a lucrative job to move 6,000 miles away, then was […]
Just a quick note. Some of you may remember my post on “Kyle,” a guy I had worked out with in San Francisco. Well, I originally changed his name for his privacy, but it’s actually Kelly Corliss, and he’s recently put up a website. You can find it here, and I suggest you check it […]
