tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454161596094447448.post5741165799539615811..comments2024-02-20T12:26:24.682-05:00Comments on language goes on holiday: A bit of singing and dancingDuncan Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708344766825805406noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454161596094447448.post-13438779326423561502012-08-01T08:33:40.488-04:002012-08-01T08:33:40.488-04:00I don't watch enough baseball to really get it...I don't watch enough baseball to really get it, but even I thought that was amazing. Thanks. And yes, some of these athletes must be having fun with their ability. There are pros who go to watch games when they can, just for the fun of it.<br /><br />There is a lot of bad stuff involved in and swirling around sport in the US and the UK, so I understand why some people are turned off. But there's so much great stuff too that I think if you don't like any of it then you aren't paying attention. But maybe some people just don't like sport the way some people just don't like music, and that seems a little sad but it's OK.Duncan Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708344766825805406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454161596094447448.post-51876119557548306572012-08-01T00:41:18.728-04:002012-08-01T00:41:18.728-04:00"We're not boy scouts." Ha!
I enjoy..."We're not boy scouts." Ha!<br /><br />I enjoy sport. During my undergraduate years I went through something of an anti-sport phase--perhaps the result of being more interested in education while at an SEC school. And yet now, I watch those games. (Go Hogs! and all that. The recent Petrino scandal notwithstanding.)<br /><br />But really I'm a baseball person. As I was reading this, I thought about one of those "Whoa!" moments, a couple years ago, when Jacoby Ellsbury made a clean steal of home <i>on the pitch</i> (that is, he beat the ball, out of the pitcher's hand, to home plate from third base). Awesome. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjBuSDe190" rel="nofollow">Here it is</a> (at about 1:05). And that strikes me as the sort of thing you just don't pull off unless you're having fun.Matthew Pianaltohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380038537888895216noreply@blogger.com