The semifinal was to be held at Bois-Guillaume today, provided that the rain held off all night. Naturally, it did nothing of the sort, and this morning a few inspired Normandy citizens were seen near the Parc des Cosmonautes making the preliminary preparations for a large, biodiverse cruise ship of some kind.
I almost feel […]
After the games last night, Aldo and I cooked some pasta and roasted a chicken for dinner before watching a little bit of the Cubs’ late-inning implosion against the Braves. In terms of surreal situations, watching an internet broadcast of a Cubs’ day game at 11pm at night in Bihorel, France with a Frenchman and […]
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 […]
I don’t really have time to describe Sunday’s games against Rouen, so I’ll get to that later. Instead, here I’ll describe the Challenge De France, which started yesterday. We were to play Savigny on Thursday, but the torrents of rain made that an impossibility. I’ll give Sylvain credit here; the Tres Lettres officials showed up […]
Haven’t really had time to write up our defeats against Rouen this weekend, but I will eventually. Things have been a little tense around here lately as the 2-room apartment that we saw on Monday proved to be a studio with a loft in 2-room apartment clothing, but we’re unwinding at a friend’s house before […]
I feel that somewhere, ages and ages hence, as I lie dying on a hospital bed and my life flashes before my eyes, most of the images will be from all the baseball games I feel we should have won, the tight matches that just barely squeaked away in the end. I wish it were […]
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 […]
Now that I’ve returned from Rouen after two days of fattening myself in Paris with my parents, I feel I’m sufficiently recovered to take a stab at describing a fairly gut-wrenching weekend on the baseball field. I probably won’t have time to post the second part until early next week, as internet acces issues once […]
It was kind of a tough weekend in HBWT land. We dropped two to PUC, two, ahem, spirited games. Frankly, I was shocked that those guys had yet to win a game. They played reasonably solid defense, and had a decent lineup, with power in the 1-6 spots. We should have won them both, and […]
Check out the article in the Washington Post on another crazy baseball-playin’ Meagher!
The two-hour drive to St. Lo required Matt and I to get up before 6 AM on Sunday in order to make the long drive into town from Neufchâtel to meet up with the rest of the team. Just on a side note, the long commute is starting to really drive us nuts, and finding […]
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 […]
The apartment search continues, as the place we found on Tuesday wanted an unreasonable four months deposit plus one month’s agency fee… It blows my mind how difficult it is to find a place to live in Rouen. I feel like back home, even in the SF housing boom, you just looked online, called up […]
No real update today, as Matt and I are busy trying to find an apartment in Rouen. You’d think we were looking for the holy grail, it’s so difficult. Apparently, the internet is not so popular for apartment hunting in France, as searching on Google for “Rouen Appartements” (in both French and English) pulls up […]
