tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post7747976981997837312..comments2023-05-17T07:37:49.804-04:00Comments on Go West, Old Man: God and BaseballPeter Teeuwissenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036559818566294926noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-63476566655356846142011-10-06T12:06:59.498-04:002011-10-06T12:06:59.498-04:00Fear the meow.Fear the meow.Billie Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11444341187381796606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-72500876996998796922011-10-05T11:08:01.033-04:002011-10-05T11:08:01.033-04:00Absolutely. Good to see EB commenting as himself ...Absolutely. Good to see EB commenting as himself in the new format. And speaking of sports, how about those Yankees last night? Did our colloquy awaken the sleeping giant?Peter Teeuwissenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036559818566294926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-12032956915948392292011-10-05T09:46:44.357-04:002011-10-05T09:46:44.357-04:00S: This is all in good fun. I've left commen...S: This is all in good fun. I've left comments before, but apparently they didn't get through in the old format (I'm sure Peter didn't censor them). And better we should argue about sports that about things more serious. EBEBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-4563073745936006662011-10-05T06:33:10.259-04:002011-10-05T06:33:10.259-04:00C'mon Cousins, don't you know better? Stra...C'mon Cousins, don't you know better? Strange that Elder Brother reacts to sports and not much else!<br />SAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-39346710825338755162011-10-04T14:43:20.231-04:002011-10-04T14:43:20.231-04:00Good observations. But being prone to self-justif...Good observations. But being prone to self-justification (as differentiated from justification by faith), I'll nail these points of disputation to the door, so to speak:<br />I do consider the Yankees to be my home team in some ways, for reasons delineated in the posting--my 24-year sojourn in Connecticut and a chunk of our ancestral heritage.<br />As for our parents, recall that Dad was born in Chicago, and that Mom and Dad met there and were (I'm pretty sure) Cubs fans for the first years of their marriage. It wasn't until they moved, in their thirties, to a new home with a new team, that they finally settled on the Tigers (much as I did when I moved to New England and chose the local team). I don't know who they followed when they lived in Iowa, but I'm sure it wasn't Detroit. <br />As for their own baseball pedigrees, Mom's dad was a Philadelphia Athletics fan, and Grandpa Tee might have liked the House of David if he'd known about them.<br />U of M is a different story. We spent endless hours in Angell Hall, we plied the Diag--we worked for that affiliation. I stuck with them during the Rich Rod years just as I'll stick with the Yankees even if they fall on such hard times. (Speaking of plutocracies, how about those Wolverines, the winningest Division 1 NCAA football team in history, and certainly one of the wealthiest? Does that bother you?)<br />How about you, Elder Brother? Iowa to Michigan to Mississippi to Ohio to West Virginia. Why park your loyalty in Detroit rather than somewhere like St. Louis or Atlanta or Cincinnati?<br />Anyway, it's the Yankees who go into tonight as the underdogs, but I'll be rooting for them just the same, and if the Tigers prevail I'll follow them the rest of the way. One thing that separates Yankees fans from many others is that we're as gracious in defeat as we are magnanimous in victory.<br />Finally, I spent a few years as a UConn student, too, and to the extent that I follow women's collegiate basketball, I do root for them.Peter Teeuwissenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036559818566294926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-76289221263029045242011-10-04T12:27:09.977-04:002011-10-04T12:27:09.977-04:00Frankly, I'm distressed that Pete is turning h...Frankly, I'm distressed that Pete is turning his back on a family tradition of support for the Tigers. I can remember our father precipitating expressions of disapproval from our Calvinist grandfather by listening to Tiger baseball on Sunday afternoons, and mom was a Tiger fan to the last at age 93. What fun is it to root for constant winners (or constant losers, for that matter)? Better to root for the home team, through good times and bad (did Peter stop rooting for UM in the Rich Rod days?)--that's the essence of being a real fan. And how much greater the joy when the Tigers, the Lions, and the Wolverines all win on the same weekend! Who would have thought this defender of the ordinary and the downtrodden would defect to the plutocrats?! He probably roots for the UConn women's basketball team, too.The Elder Brothernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-77487772034641114062011-10-03T08:54:41.404-04:002011-10-03T08:54:41.404-04:00Hey, hey, hey...I jus’ got in from...Roanoke (or a...Hey, hey, hey...I jus’ got in from...Roanoke (or as John Lee Hooker Jr. says it, "Hello Roe-an-O-kee!"). And, by the way, I want to see some of this here mountain…well, never mind. But alluding to Texas (inside joke), how 'bout them Cowboys? <br /><br />I was up in Roanoke at a one day blues fest on Saturday. It was pretty cool, as in cold. We watched U of M kick butt, MSU squeak by, and then went into the fest. A good day was had by all. Amazingly enough there was no fall color yet.<br /><br />Glad you made the comment section work again. I see it operates a bit differently now, probably a bit easier. <br /><br />Last, but not least, I don’t care what you say: GO TIGERS!Billie Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11444341187381796606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4139180752791601793.post-1466341956944153182011-10-01T05:23:30.057-04:002011-10-01T05:23:30.057-04:00I am not qualified to comment on baseball (or US p...I am not qualified to comment on baseball (or US politics) but I do read your posts. As to the difficulties in posting comments, all I have had to do basically is click again on "Post your comment". It could be a procedure to avoid spam comments. <br />SAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com