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"Buster isn't sure when Tim became his problem, but he guesses it's true, and everyone knows it. "
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After five years of sub-par performance as a starting pitcher, Barry Zito opens his 2012 season with a complete-game shutout of the Colorado Rockies. In interviews with the press, he credits his newfound skill to his recent marriage.
In Denver, the celebration that follows the CGSO has some unexpected results.
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The kid surprises Justin the first time he sets his eyes on him. Justin had been expecting a bright and sunny kid, someone like Zumaya, full of effervescent bubbliness that would probably become annoying with prolonged exposure.
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Rookie assholes and backup catchers! Oh my!
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Rabelo realizes that he can’t tell what color Nate’s eyes are behind his glasses. He realizes that he wishes he knew.
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He could be a great ballplayer if he put as much effort into his ballplaying as he did his fucking.
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Brandon climbed onto the diving board and looked down. His reflection stared back up at him, shimmering and abstracted, like pieces of broken glass stuck back together in a bad fit.
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Five Times Jordan Tata Crushed on Rick Porcello and the One Time He Actually Did Something About It by caruso
Baseball RPF
20 May 2012
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Five times Jordan Tata crushed on Rick Porcello and the one time he actually did something about it, ’though this is more a Jordan Tata story, with some incidental Rick Porcello.
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Matt Morris is a Major League veteran who has gone through things that would completely break a lesser man. Dan Haren is a rookie hot-shot who’s flown through the St. Louis organization’s minor league system at breakneck speed. Turns out one of them still has a little left to learn. And it’s not the rookie.
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Joel doesn’t show up for batting practice one afternoon before an important game against the Twins.
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The A's make the playoffs, the champagne flows, and Huston Street is feeling no pain. There'll be time for that later.
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In 2006 the A's win their first playoff series in 16 years before they're swept by the Tigers. It's the last time Zito will wear the green and gold.
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People always feel like they've met Bobby before. Also known as the one with all the time-traveling. Title taken from Wild Sweet Orange's "An Atlas to Follow".
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Ice chips in coffee and losing street hockey balls in gutters.
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Burrell doesn't ask how he’s doing.
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In which Yadi learns that no matter how good he thinks he is at hiding something, Bengie can always see the hearts in his eyes.
Title taken from Into The Night by Santana and Chad Kroeger.
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- Part 2 of Gasolina
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The Little Bit Of You I've Got, It Ain't Good Enough by notthebigspoon
Baseball RPF, Walking Dead (TV)
4 May 2012
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Daryl wasn't really on board with bringing in a stranger and his two buddies, not considering that gang they were doing their damnedest not to meet. But now that Madison's with them, Daryl's having a hard time remembering life without him. He's also having a hard time keeping the lid on a part of himself that he's never shared with anyone.
Title taken from the song 5-1-5-0 by Dierks Bentley.
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- Part 2 of Burn It To The Ground
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back when I was gasoline and this old tattoo had brand new ink by notthebigspoon
Baseball RPF
4 May 2012
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Yadi comforts Pablo after his injury. Just a wee thing writ for crimsonkitty88.
Title from Springsteen by Eric Church.
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- Part 1 of Gasolina
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All The Wounds That Are Ever Gonna Scar Me by notthebigspoon
Baseball RPF, Walking Dead (TV)
3 May 2012
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It's just chance that the three of them made it out together, just like it's just chance that they run into Rick Grimes & Co. Madison thinks that Daryl Dixon may be the best hand that fate's ever dealt him.
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- Part 1 of Burn It To The Ground
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So. It's 2030. Global climate change has caused rainy places to get rainier, MLB's take-out-slide rules have changed, same-sex marriage is legal across the nation, and Buster and Tim are middle-aged and managerial and married to other people.
And orphans of the storm.
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- Part 6 of Taking BP