Revisiting "On Baseball" from 2001

In 2001 I was living in Germany teaching at the University of Bamberg. My friend Mark was doing the same at the University of Stuttgart. In the summer of that year, Mark contacted me about writing a sports article for his colleague Wolfgang, who need two more contributions to complete a collection he was working on. The person who was supposed to have written that section backed out, and Wolfgang was desperate. Sure, I thought, why not. And it was a lot of fun.
Reading it today, I am mostly impressed with the work I completed in a little more than a week and without too much research. Nonetheless, it comes across as more of fan's take on the game he loves, and less as an academically rigorous article published by an important German press (which it was). And I loved me some counting stats, though I did mention Rob Neyer and Billy Bean [sic]. My favorite line has always been: "For every Adonis such as Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire, there is a Tony Gwynn or David Wells who, if you look closely enough, might still have gravy from lunch on his collar."
What do you think?
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Rush to Talk About the Braves' Demise

The other night on the twitter, I started using Rush album and song names to talk about the Braves. None of my followers got it, but it did lead me to getting a new follower, which made me happy.

Read in reverse chronological order

And the new follower