Archives: December, 2006

Ev — December 13, 2006, 12:46 am

Baseball’s Own Iron Byron

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 […]

Ev — December 7, 2006, 6:07 pm

A Random Digression From an Old Man the World Has Passed By

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 […]

Ev — December 5, 2006, 6:36 am

Exams

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 […]