PriorBlog

I can’t believe these bastards are making me work today.  This means this will be a quick post in which I will probably type there when I mean their.

I am hosting a bunch of British poets at my house this weekend, so last night I was up cleaning.  I am not crazy about cleaning house, but during baseball season I don’t half mind.  I had the Phillies game on as I did it, so I was able to zone out.  I have a hard time listening closely to baseball games on the radio.  Most likely this is because I was born long after the age when people sat around their radios and listened intently, or at least that’s what it looks like they are doing in those old pictures.  Maybe they were just like me, initially interested, but with other things to do, so they didn’t really pay close attention, knowing to perk up their ears when the announcer’s voice picked up in cadence to announce that Rollins (Ashburn maybe in their case) had homered again.

Or maybe I did listen closely but have blacked it out because the Phillies lost again 5-3 despite J-Ro’s two homers.

I was thinking though, as I am sure a lot of baseball fans have been thinking, about how roto league (note: I always refer to it as roto because I don’t know how to spell rotisserie) baseball is a lot like globalization, in that it dilutes traditional loyalties.  Personally, I always try to put my rotisserie team on the back burner and root for the Phils or Red Sox first (Dodgers third), but I find myself making compromises.  For example, I have Kenji Johjima and the other night when he was facing Matsuzaka, the thought ran through my head: It’s okay if he gets a hit because there are two outs and he probably won’t score.

Last night I definitely felt conflicted when Carlos Delgado was up, my first baseman.  I think he had an 0fer.  I dunno, like I said I didn’t listen too closely.  I took the time to feel conflicted, and then forgot about why.  It was a real Prior moment.

I am listening to Forever Changes, an album I like, but have not listened to in a while.  Thanks to that Dutch guy who for whatever reason threw it up on his website.  A lot of times when I play an old favorite, I discover things about it not to like.  There’s only one thing that I am not liking about this album, that I wasn’t too critically conscious of a few years ago.  On this album some of the lyrics are striking me as a little too pedestrian.  Like when Arthur says “This is the time in life that I am living…” [Insert your own Arthur Lee is dead now joke here, you callous jerk] Come on, now.  On the plus side, if you can find the Dutch guy’s site, he has some interesting bonus cuts up there, and a lot of other cool music when you click on parent directory.