1. First base, because I’m left-handed and slow (and had some decent pop in my LL days)

2. Mom’s Subaru wagon part time, til I totaled it. Drunk. Then, once I got my license back a few years later, a ’71 Chevelle.

3. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. Just finished his John Henry Days, which was stellar. This one is good so far too.

Please Kill Me – The Uncensored History of Punk by Legs McNeil
and Gillian McCain (I’m guessing no relation).

A must read for those who are interested in music, scenes, new york, drugs, art.

1. Catcher.

2. 84 Mercedes diesel wagon

3. Harry Potter 3 (again) – I’m kind of burnt out on real lit

~2B, LF I didn’t have a strong arm, so had to play those two positions but I could pick it in the infield. I used to play 3B but my arm wasn’t strong enough in my final seasons.

~1987 S10 Blazer. Grandpa’s old car that I got. It was nice but by the time I got a new one I was able to trade it in as a “gross pollutor”.

~Books for school, and John by Cynthia Lennon, or whatever her last name would be. Once John lennon’s first wife, always John Lennon’s first wife.

3rd base

73 Ford Maverick, Baby Blue

Assets, Expectations, and Children’s Educational Achievement in Female-Headed Housholds

1. Second base

2. 1975 Ford F-100 with a 460 v8. It was my first big purchase at $1,000 between my sophomore and junior years of high school. It had over 300,000 miles on it and got 8 miles per gallon. I still own it but it is not just something to tinker around with and doesn’t get driven. Probably not the smartest purchase of my life but I don’t regret it.

3. Sadly I haven’t been reading lately, but I finished a collection of short stories by Kafka a few weeks ago.

1. Me on the field is never a good idea. I will catch for my daughter sometimes to warm her up.
2. 1981 Mustang
3. Eyewitness Travel-London; Original Sin by P.D. James

~ I loved to pitch. I also liked 1B/3B.

~ First car was a 1989 4-door Saab 900. I still miss that car sometimes, it was really comfy and very driveable. I called it the ‘Saabrerro’ because it looked like a giant hat.

~ 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes by various authors, History of Political Theory: Volume 1 by George Klosko, and I’m flipping around through Plato’s Republic again.

1. Loved running fly balls down in CF.

2. 95 Isuzu Rodeo. Only stopped driving this car when gas prices decided to be ridiculous.

3. School has started. Reading The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.

1. Pitching. I was bad at it but I was really good at picking people off.

2. A Pontiac Sunbird. I wish I still had that car.

3. I am reading 1491, a book about the Americas before Columbus

- I liked third base, but I don’t have a great throwing arm, so I’m really better at second.

- I have never owned a car! For the first year and a half I lived with my wife, she had an ugly old green Geo Prizm.

- I’m reading Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It’s a Big Fat Epic Fantasy novel, which is something I haven’t read in the last year or so. I like it. Next I’m going to tackle Pynchon for the first time – starting small with The Crying of Lot 49.

Favorite position on the diamond: Missionary Short Stop

1st Car: 1959 Volkswagen Beetle Oval window
I loved that baby. I’m stupid for selling it after I restored her… =(

Book: Assembly Language for Intel Based Computers… argh

-I sucked at all of them, but I like second

-No car

-I am reading a hijacked fanpost on mccoveychronicles.com

1. Any of the outfield spots. I’ve got pretty good range and judgment.

2. Chevy Tahoe

3. Fantasyland by Sam Walker.

1. Pitcher
2. 1969 VW Fastback
3. First Man – The Life of Neil Armstrong

- SS. Note: I am in no way good or competent at said position.
- ’92 Acura Legend. I really only used it to learn how to drive. We got rid of it shortly after I got my license because the transmission turned to crap.
- The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

I have and still drive a ‘98 (I think?) dark blue Volkswagen Jetta. It’s a pretty good little car, even though I’ll probably have to replace it soon.

I was trying to read Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut on the plane to Boston but I wasn’t able to get any of it read. That always happens. I’ve also got Chronicles, Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan on the “pleasure” reading list.

For my classes, I’m reading:
The Great Gatsby
The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
A History of the Modern Middle East

and some books on Communism or something.

And for some reason, my Firefox just lost its mind and I can’t fix it, so I’m trying out Opera and it’s pretty nice so far. Is there any way to make links that are text clickable, though? That extension in Firefox is more or less the reason I use it over other browsers.

- I can’t catch nor throw a ball worth a damn, but I (used to be able to) hit. I’ll hit you right now, :: SOCK ::

— ’67 Mustang

— Blind Ambition by John Dean

-Second base was more fun but I was a pretty good first baseman.
-Oldsmobile Firenza with an NRA sticker. Not a chick magnet.
-What is Intelligence? By Flynn. Provides interpretations for the fact that IQ scores have been rising over the last 80 years.

1. Second base. Love turning two.

2. 1985 Dodge Colt.

3. I just read Watchmen for the first time in a loooong time. Once the season ends I’ll pick up something more lengthy.

1. CF – I was left-handed and fast

2. ’64 VW Squareback ($500 and it was all mine!)

3. Mouth-breathers don’t read

- played pretty much every position, but 3rd or pitcher was the most fun.

- ’96 chevy malibu. powerless windows and doors.

- reading The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan. Fascinating book. Just finished 90 Minutes in Heaven about a guy that died, went to heaven, and was resuscitated and came back. Next on the list is Things to Come, a huge book on end times stuff.

1. pitcher
2. 2002 Subaru Impreza [didn’t NEED a car ‘till I moved to Sac]
3. Smart Moves [how motor development fuels cognitive development]
and some boring ol’ textbooks that I don’t recall the titles of Flash Something Something and Communicative Disorders Something Else

1) I play them all, it just depends where the computer hits the ball in MLB 2k8

2) 1982 BMW 320is. It was older than me when I got it.

3) A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3, A Storm of Swords

Reading: Little, Big… still… damn this book is longer than it looks.

That, and I read a bunch of stuff since I started it…

1. 2nd Base and OF
2. 1989 Ford Taurus. Paint was 6 different shades of light blue.
3. Philosophy and the return to self knowledge by Donald Philip Verene. Very excellent work of a recovery of classical philosophy.

2nd base
1989 Ford Escort
Atlas Shrugged

- I never had enough pop to play 1B so i was the only left handed 2B in our high school league. I Was good too, just did everything backwards.

- 1984 Toyota pickup with no power steering, mmm mmm bitch! jealous?

- I’m reading an old textbook on Film Art. Ya know, shot reverse shot and check the gate and so on.

1. First base- I’m a truck

2. 1987 Plymouth Voyager-Gotta love a minivan

3. The Post American World by Fareed Zakaria-great read

1. I sucked worse than any suck who ever sucked at baseball. I have no favorite position to play because I’m bad at them all. But in my fantasy world where I kick so much ass at baseball that even the McCovenites want to keep me on the Giants, I play shortstop.

2. My mom bought a 1969 VW in Germany back in… 1969. I was the fifth teenager to drive it. Among the many marks of greatness it had were a line in the door from a keying, bondo on a door (when my brother drove the car and pissed someone off enough the guy kicked the door hard), a dented front fender (dad dropped a tree branch on it), scraped to hell back fender (dad ripped it a new one on the fence in the back yard), a crushed in trunk (sister ran into someone) which was held down by a bike chain, a dented engine cover (my friend was being a jackass), an uneven driver seat where one buttcheek sat lower than the other, an Oh Shit handle that was only half attached, a leak in the air vent under the windshield that gave me a shower every time I drove in the rain, an engine that would shut off every time I stopped (this problem was eventually fixed), door speakers that would short out due to poor wiring, window cranks that always fell apart, two tailpipes that always fell off the car, and of course… A dark blue paint job that oxidized to black. It was a sweet ride.

3. McCovey Chronicles. And the Enterprise Vault Administrators Guide. I don’t read a lot these days…

1. Catcher and shortstop in LL. I was the kid who could always catch the ball, and the catcher’s gear made me feel important at that age. Then I read Phil Rizzuto’s autobiography in 6th grade and I just had to play shortstop; good hands, average arm.

2. 1966 Volkwagen Fastback. Purchased in 1973 for $800. No A/C, no radio. I drove 2,000 miles (each way) to college in it; fourteen total trips. I am now intimately acquainted with small towns along I-40 in AZ, NM, TX, OK, and AR.

3. Simple Genius by David Baldacci. Before that, The Host by Stephenie Meyer.

1. Third base/pitcher, because I could throw straight and hit far
2. Datsun b210; piece of effin shit.
3. Salonika, by Mark Mazower.

ARE YOU SPYING ON ME — AGAIN!??!?

The startup I was at was swallowed up by software giant CA (formerly Computer Associates).

Oddly enough, CA had also aquired another company I worked for 15 years ago. I joke that they were sorry to lose me (they were a ~very different company back then) and have been after me ever since then.

They let me work from home full time. With the amount of day games we play, that’s a must.

Right out of school I was a bartender

Now I’m starting up a NPO to serve single mothers in the bay area

I type gud: Should have been a *BS in Sociology.

law school is very expensive unless you go to a CBA school, which aren’t that great (most CBA school grads don’t pass the bar the first time.). if you can pay for it without loans, do so. You might need loans, so take out as little as possible.

And that, aside from creative writing, my academic interests mainly consist of African-American Literature and, generally, issues of race in America.

Fun!

We aren’t all douchebags.

I took comprehensive exams (i’m an underachiever).
My emphasis was enviromental ethics and, ahem, ecofeminism.

The Ramayana is one of the two great Hindu epics – the other is the Mahabharata – the Bhagavad Gita is actually an excerpt from the Mahabharata.

The Ramayana is the story of the price Rama, who is an avatar of the god Vishnu; his wife, Sita, is kidnapped by the rakshasa (demon) Ravana, and Rama journeys across the land to save her with the help of the monkey-god Hanuman.

Time to have a quarter-life crisis.

and raise you a niekro

Sexson

That could even be a Simpsons reference.

Ah, never read him.

I mentioned upthread I’m presently reading a Big Fat Epic Fantasy Book – Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It has some cheesy sex scenes, but is otherwise good.

As I Lay Dying is great, I’m glad you enjoyed it jp.

agreed