Belated Observations on the Nature of Baseball Semiotics
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“Hey! Look at me! I can type! Because I’m blissfully unaware of the creation of the cooperation of the University of North Carolina, Duke and the gosh darn DOD inventing Usenet in the disco infested 1970′s I believe that I’m the demon spawn of Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau hatched in a lab with the sole purpose of secreting reviews on iTunes which don’t need a formal critical framework because someone at a party once told me beer made me wicked smaht. And brother, I like the suds.
Oh, wait, I’m Explodius Harris and I’m painfully aware how little I know about Nathan Effin’ Hale, David Effin’ Halberstam, Roger Effin’ Lowenstein, Collateralized Debt, what steel tariffs have to do with David Simon being famous, successful or flat out Awesome, other Great Americans who used the Balitmore Sun as a cudgel of ugly truth, what Paul Strassmann and Izzy Stone think about information entropy and creating a signal to noise distortion system which stovepipes intelligence reporting or whether or not World War Z was a derivative work of some dead guy from the Land of Lincoln.
Due to this blind spot in my cognition, I don’t realize that the Cistulli / Perry Fangraphs Audio episodes resemble a pan-dimensional cage match teaming Terry Funk and Mick Foley together in an all-out-balls-out assault of Constitutional Fury on the circa 1989 Santana-Martel Strike Force that is the bloated carcass of the incumbent Military/Entertainment complex.
Speaking now as myself, jbwiii (pronounced JAH-boo-EY), I contest that not only as an American but simply as a Carbon Based Life Form I desire nothing more than to deliver stout blows about the head and torso of any man, woman or child for whom the question “In the event some sort of Russo-Caribbean alliance against Democracy infiltrated troops into the jerkwater Front Range municipality which I cohabit with fellow members of my football squad and were I, in the spirit of Americans from Nathan Hale to Douglas McArthur, forced to temper the steel of my manhood in the crucible of freedom by cobbling together a scrappy rag-tag team of patriots to develop into an unstoppable insurgent force, striking fear into our Oppressors and catalyzing – nay awakening – the battered yet not beaten townspeople into Revolutionaries, would I want Cistilli and Perry by my side?” is genuinely Interrogative rather than purely Rhetorical. When, after all, does a question stop being a question and transform into a Living Truth?
To all of this slackjawed internettery I say this: Dayn Perry IS a Living Truth and you can take him away when you pry him from my cold dead hand.
Good Day, Sirs
jbwiii, American”
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