Comments on: Brandon McCarthy

By: Jeb

Jeb — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:21:28 +0000

26. 25 Josh you just sent me running for the dictionary for "bacchanalia"

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:26:23 +0000

25. 19 : "You sound like a Bokononist." Not an Onanist? 20 : I also recall McCarthy being pretty highly regarded for a while. 22 : I think Comiscular Park is a good place to see a game. We had a lot of fun grilling up food and drinking beer in the parking lot before a game there last year, which is not an option in Wrigleyville. I love going to Wrigley Field, but I generally skip the surrounding neighborhood bacchanalia. Guess I'm getting old. 23 : I've read Siddhartha a few times, but not in a while. I think the last time I read it I found myself relating to and sympathizing more with Siddhartha's buddy.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:21:45 +0000

24. Maybe I went to a substandard high school, but I don't recall anyone reading Hesse.

By: Catfish326

Catfish326 — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:48:51 +0000

23. Josh,

I just read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. (I know, I finally got around to it . . . I recognize most people read it in High School). It really struck me. Siddhartha moving through life trying to find purpose, meaning, and striving to understand himself in relation to this strange F’d-up world. It had answers to humanity’s most perplexing questions.

After reading your latest post, I started to believe you are the neo-Siddhartha! Like Siddhartha, you’re on a pligrimage, a journey, you’ve been to many places and experienced many things, and you share with us your great wisdom, in eloquent verse and meter.

Like Hesse, you’ll be getting your Nobel Prize for literature at some point, I’m sure. I tip my black fedora in your direction . . .

Cheers,
Catfish

By: Jeb

Jeb — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:15:38 +0000

22. Josh, it's writing like this that makes your blog -- pound for pound -- the most well written and thoughtful commentary around. I was in Chicago three weeks ago and got to stay at the Drake (it wasn't on my nickel; my firm paid for it). I went up to Wrigleyville and WOW, what a great atmosphere. I wish the Cubbies had been in town. That night I took clients to US Cellular and was really impressed with the ballpark, all things considered. But they sure did locate it in the middle of freaking nowhere.

By: 68elcamino427

68elcamino427 — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:48:55 +0000

21. 19 Got a black magic woman?

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:44:26 +0000

20. Wasn't McCarthy supposed to be good? I haven't followed his career, but I recall him being a touted prospect for the White Sox. Of course pitchers are risky due to the nature of their part of the profession.

By: ramblin pete

ramblin pete — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:25:29 +0000

19. Hmm…Brandon McCarthy?
Who knew they still made baseball cards?

Still your insights resonate.
You sound like a Bokononist.

By: Basilisc

Basilisc — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:10:44 +0000

18. Maybe it's my background (east coast, & the last few years in Europe), but I've always found the American suburban shopping mall/corporate campus world to be the most dehumanizing environment imaginable. No sidewalks, no shade, no room for pedestrian crossing in the traffic signals. If you're not in a car you're nothing, a flyspeck, a piece of flyaway trash.

By: 68elcamino427

68elcamino427 — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:32:04 +0000

17. B. McCarthy is stuck on the median with a bum elbow and can't get to the other side of the street to start the season. He's missed the bus to the beginning of the season with the best kind of elbow problem to have, if you're going to have one. The placement of the tear on card is just below the elbow...