Lattice of Coincidence: NYT fawns over "everyman" professional hitter

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

NYT fawns over "everyman" professional hitter

“Matt’s a guy’s guy,” Ricciardi said. “There’s just not a lot of frills with him.”

3 comments:

k-mad said...: “Matt’s not a weight-room guy,” Toronto General Manager J. P. Ricciardi said. “He’s not a yoga guy or a Pilates guy. He’s old school.”

He's a gamer. A good clubhouse guy. A ballplayer. He plays the game the right way.

He's a grinder...; October 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Smiff said...: He's a throw-back.

I would like to have a beer with him.; October 15, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Smiff said...: Also, he's the oldest player to hit a pinch homer in the postseason. The guy just phokking rules.; October 15, 2008 at 5:10 PM

A lotta people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a buncha unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give ya an example, show ya what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like, "plate" -- or "shrimp" -- or "plate of shrimp" -- out of the blue, no explanation. No point looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about Bermuda Triangles, UFOs, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing? Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine.... People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something: there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well, where did all these people come from? Hmm? I'll tell you where: the future. Where did all these people disappear to: hmmm? the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really... yeah, you got it! Time machines!"

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

NYT fawns over "everyman" professional hitter

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