Archives: June, 2006

Look who was quoted (albeit anonymously) by Gordon Edes in his baseball notes column this week!
P.S. that is to say, me.

Now you know how I felt about some of those calls in the games against PUC.

A short drive from the Formula 1 took us to the Toulouse baseball field. It’s a very respectable field, no goofy cutout infields or concrete mounds or anything. The team is actually just called Stade Toulousain, with interlocking ST on their caps, because they’re affiliated with the Stade Toulousain rugby team, one of the biggest, […]

Saturday found us road-tripping south to Toulouse. The team wanted to avoid a debacle similar to that which surrounded our travel to Montpelier- a last minute increase in our train tickets nearly doubled the team’s cash outlay- so we traveled in the ultimate budget option, a minibus. Now, I can hear what you’re saying. “Ev, […]

I have a post prepared that will run later on French Hip Hop, but in driving home from the Fete de la Musique (more on that later as well), I heard on the radio a local hip hop group trying to garner street cred in a late night SkyRock (more on that later as well, […]

After an all-too brief nap on Friday, we met up with Sylvain, who took us to see our new apartments. He prepped us by explaining that they were “very small,” and they lived up to his billing. Unfortunately, it appears that I left my camera at my old roommates’ house in San Francisco, making it […]

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 […]

So… This one’s going to take some explaining.
I couldn’t sleep at all on Friday night. Not a wink. Just 7 hours of staring at the roof of my tiny hotel room. I’m not even sure that I blinked. It was a combination some personal/family stuff back home, and it left me absolutely exhausted come […]

May be boring to many, but this Economist Article does a pretty good job of describing the risk aversion of French society.

(Note: This title works better if you remember that the French pronounce their capital city as “Pa-ree.”)
Matt dropped me off at the train station this morning after a night of review. I caught the 9:57 from Rouen to Paris, and then walked over to the Opera to catch the #8 train to the southwest […]

Scene: 8:00 AM this morning, teammate Aldo’s apartment, Bihorel, France. Our hero awakes to the realization that he is suddenly 27 years old, sleeping on the dining room floor. Enter, Conscious & Subconsci0us.
SC: Jesus F-ing Christ! What the hell is wrong with you! You’re 27 years old and sleeping on someone’s floor! You used […]