Love and Baseball
February 25, 2010 9:00 AM   Subscribe

Baseball might not allow you to love it by playing it for all your time on Earth, but it can guide you to a love that can last that long. (NYTimes). As Spring Training begins, Doug Glanville, former MLB outfielder and UPenn graduate, offers an interesting and insightful look at how baseball can affect relationships and love.

Glanville has covered a number of other topics over the past few years for the NYTimes including team allegiance, PED use, Tiger Woods, and many others. Hopefully, you find his writing as thoughtful and well-written as I do.
posted by arm426 (28 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
A lovely, cheesy piece. I mean that in a good way.

I cannot even express how happy I am the baseball season starts so soon.
posted by ORthey at 9:14 AM on February 25, 2010 [2 favorites]


Doug Glanville is awesome. Especially for getting revenge on Curt Schilling for leaving him high and dry in Everquest.
posted by kmz at 9:14 AM on February 25, 2010 [8 favorites]


kmz that transcript of the Everquest double cross is one of the most bizarre things I've ever read. Also, I'd have figured Schill would denounce D&D as the work of the devil... Weird.
posted by nathancaswell at 9:23 AM on February 25, 2010


So turns out Schilling is also into Avalon board wargames, has organized game conventions, and has been playing MMOs since Ultima Online... basically a total nerd. Who knew?
posted by nathancaswell at 9:31 AM on February 25, 2010 [1 favorite]


And so begins my yearly love affair with baseball, which always ends around late-May when the Orioles start to suck out loud.
posted by HumanComplex at 9:32 AM on February 25, 2010 [2 favorites]


Nice article about something I was actually interested in.

METS 2010
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 9:33 AM on February 25, 2010


Yeah that is pretty great, kmz! You too arm426.
posted by Mister_A at 9:33 AM on February 25, 2010


Oh my god that Everquest story is amazing.
posted by ORthey at 9:34 AM on February 25, 2010


And so begins my yearly love affair with baseball, which always ends around late-May spring training when the Orioles start to suck out loud.

Fixed.
posted by nathancaswell at 9:34 AM on February 25, 2010


I think the Mets late-season collapse will happen even earlier this year. April maybe...
posted by Mister_A at 9:35 AM on February 25, 2010


I don't think I'll remember Glanville as one of the all-time greatest Phillies, but he is certainly one of the all-time great guys. Love reading his stuff in the NYT.
posted by moviehawk at 9:36 AM on February 25, 2010


Baseball offseason is the saddest time of my life.
posted by bjork24 at 9:42 AM on February 25, 2010


Yeah, this is sweet. And I am itching for baseball to return.

METS 2010

What, to lose 100 games? I mean, I'm going to try like hell to be there on opening day, but I have tempered expectations. I expect to spend the rest of the season going to weeknight games on $3 tickets and drinking Brooklyn beers until I fall over a railing.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:55 AM on February 25, 2010


Liked that. Love Spring Training. Go Giants.
posted by chavenet at 10:03 AM on February 25, 2010 [1 favorite]


I met my wife on a baseball field, proposed to her on a pitchers mound, we had our bachelor(ette) parties together at a baseball tournament in Vegas, and here was our wedding. So, yup...love and baseball.
posted by vito90 at 10:46 AM on February 25, 2010 [3 favorites]


I can state with authority that Morning Glory does, indeed, have out-of-this-world french toast.

That was gorgeous and I really, really, really cannot wait for Opening Day. My Phillies jersey is just hanging there, waiting...

(speaking of, does anyone know how to get just MLB gameday audio? I'd rather not pay through the nose for video, if I don't have to...)
posted by kalimac at 10:50 AM on February 25, 2010


The thing with Morning Glory is that nobody goes there anymore–it's too crowded.
posted by Mister_A at 11:22 AM on February 25, 2010


Like a pavlovian dog, I slobber at the mention of either Glanville or Schilling in my zeal to repost the saga of Cylc and BingBong, and yet it's already been mentioned. Either I'm getting slow, or more people know about how awesome that story is.
posted by norm at 12:01 PM on February 25, 2010


does anyone know how to get just MLB gameday audio?

The iphone app works quite well.
posted by norm at 12:02 PM on February 25, 2010


Thinking about baseball can help your love last even longer.
posted by darksasami at 12:23 PM on February 25, 2010


Thinking about baseball can help your love last even longer.

So I've heard.
posted by uncleozzy at 12:42 PM on February 25, 2010 [1 favorite]


TWINS 2010 - until at least we hit a team with twice the payroll in the playoffs!
posted by Ber at 2:20 PM on February 25, 2010


I kept expecting the part about where he has sex with 20,000 women.

Seriously, nice bookend to that horrible Wilt Chamberlain post. Glanville's baseball stuff is as good as anything out there.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 2:54 PM on February 25, 2010


So turns out Schilling is also into Avalon board wargames, has organized game conventions, and has been playing MMOs since Ultima Online... basically a total nerd. Who knew?
posted by nathancaswell at 11:31 AM


Anyone that follows baseball consistently? I mean, this is Schilling we're talking about. He hasn't shut up about this stuff for years. Probably discussed it more than baseball.
posted by justgary at 3:15 PM on February 25, 2010


OK, I'll be the one.

It is truly heartening to see a former black athlete who can WRITE. With eloquence. There are many who commentate well.

Another milestone, in a way. Like the female bowler who won a PBA tournament.

Yes, you might point me to others that I haven't read. I'm simply not aware of them and I found this post made me glad, yet again, to be 62 and still alive. A black sportswriter in the NYT. Say hey!!
posted by private_idaho at 7:17 PM on February 25, 2010


RANGERS 2010

Tom Hicks is out!

Yes, I liked the post, but I like my Rangers more.
posted by fireoyster at 1:07 AM on February 26, 2010


It is truly heartening to see a former black athlete who can WRITE.

What?
posted by cmgonzalez at 6:33 PM on February 26, 2010


It is truly heartening to see a former black athlete who can WRITE.

This would have been a far more interesting thread had that comment been dropped at the top of it instead of the bottom.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 10:03 AM on February 27, 2010


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