The National Poetry Month kickoff was few days ago and I missed it. I’ve been distracted by my mlb.tv woes, but I think we might be approaching a solution to that problem.
At any rate, here’s a poem that fuses two of my interests. You can sign up for a Poem-a-Day at the Academy of American Poets Web site. I wish I could sign up for Pedro-Every-Five-Days, but we’re not going to have that for a while.
I enjoyed Billy Beane’s interview on the DP Show today, especially their discussion on music. It gives me an excuse to post this, by The New Pornographers:
Beane’s Moneyball system has worked in Oakland, although he seems a little to hands-on-sy as far as letting his managers manage. There’s probably a little bit of every GM who wants to be a manager, as there are managers who think they can do the GM’s job. Still, he’s got really interesting taste in music; a big thumb’s up for his Elvis Costello pick. Plus as a Mets fan I appreciate Oakland letting Rick Peterson out of his contract so he could become pitching coach for the Orange-and-Blue. I can’t believe they didn’t demand a draft a pick or two for The Jacket.
*: Since the show has reached its 6-month anniversary I decided it’s time to stop calling it “The New Dan Patrick Show.” As Hawaii points out in The Good, the Bad, and the Missing, DP’s post-ESPN incarnation has a lot going for it, but it’s also lacking in a number of respects. Personally, I was holding out hope that it really would be new and different, but it’s still pretty much the standard sports talk radio show. DP does it well, but “new” it’s not. Oh well. I’ll get over it.
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