Archives: 'International Intrigue'

More on this later… here’s the translation of the front page of the Woodchucks’ website from Babelfish.

…plus que c’est la meme chose.
Never thought I’d be reading about someone else having the same experience in France, but here he is. Meet Tony Lewis, current star SS/P for your Bois-Guillaume Woodchucks. Reading through his blog is like a walk down memory lane. I’ve eaten at those very same dinner tables and toiled […]

Many readers (okay, a dozen, tops) have emailed me asking about the recent post regarding the future of baseball in Bois-Guillaume. B-do summarized it succinctly, asking if the mayor’s objections to the club’s existence couldn’t easily be solved with an advanced piece of technology known as a “net.”
Well, the immediate answer is “oui.” The […]

I was looking on the Woodchucks’ website to get an address (it’s sort of funny to have to list one’s previous employment as “French baseball player” on apartment applications) and saw this recent notice, posted just two weeks ago. I’ll write more on this later this week. Between the sloppy translation from babelfish and the […]

Apparently you can go through an awkward re-entry into the U.S., get wrapped up in grad school classes and Thanksgiving, then look up one day and realize that you haven’t posted anything in a month. Oops. I’ll give a wrap-up of the playoffs some time this week, but in the meantime, I wanted to let […]

In about 18 hours I’ll hop on my last flight to France for my last two games with the Woodchucks. There’s a nice symmetry to it all, as my last games in France will be against Antoni Piquet and La Guerche, the same guys I first saw with the Lions on Opening Day way back […]

Editor’s Note: Feast or famine, it seems. After weeks with nothing, you get this Kaczynski-style rant… oh well. I thought about breaking it in two, but it seemed better to just get it down on paper while it was fresh. Hugs and handpounds,
Ev

Seeing as how I tend to run off at the lip from […]

Baseball’s a funny game. On the one hand, it’s inherently unfair. The line drives are caught, while the squibbers go for hits. Hit a ball 400 feet in Yankee Stadium and it’s an out; hit a ball 300 feet in Fenway and it’s a home run.
On the other hand, there’s a certain transparency to […]