Comments on: Terry Bulling

By: EricNus

EricNus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:15:56 +0000

10. "Those are hard years, the first years after school. They were for me, anyway. There certainly weren't any major or minor league teams of any kind, literal or figurative, knocking on my door. I had no skills, no connections, not even much ambition beyond a hazy collection of vague, ridiculous, impossible hallucinations about a future involving writing, some shattering moment of lasting spiritual enlightenment, rooms full of people cheering for me, and fucking." Thanks for encapsulating my whole current life in a paragraph. Now I can finally explain things to my parents.

By: ToyCannon

ToyCannon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:43:48 +0000

9. I lived in Frankfurt for two years from age 8-9. We had a ballfield right behind us, maybe two of the best years of my life.

By: El Lay Dave

El Lay Dave — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:19:58 +0000

8. 6 A conversion on the road to Damascus. Nice. J.C. (Fogerty) approves.

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:04:37 +0000

7. Despite the fact that I followed baseball religiously in the 70s you still find the occasional player that I never heard of. Bulling is one of them. The expression on his face is one of worry that he is going to be tapped on the shoulder at any moment and told that he has has been demoted.

By: Ken Noe

Ken Noe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:51:39 +0000

6. When I was student teaching, I drove every morning through Lodi, Virginia to get to my school at Damascus. Hummed "Lodi" to myself a lot on the road to Damascus. When the semester ended, I decided to go to grad school instead.

By: Sox Fan In NYC

Sox Fan In NYC — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:55:37 +0000

5. my friend spent a semester in England, and on weekends would venture out to various European cities. He worked in a restaurant in the states, but quit for the 6 months he'd be gone. While at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on a random weekend, he bumped into his boss from the restaurant. Neither had any idea the other was going to be in the area!

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:35:34 +0000

4. Speaking of old posts, Josh, I ran across Sven Nater's name in David Halberstam's Breaks Of The Game last nite. He was a rather religious type. The poster who suggested a porn career for him was waaay off.

By: Ken Arneson

Ken Arneson — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:06:54 +0000

3. I've run into friends from the US in a foreign country twice: once I ran into a college friend on the streets of Stockholm, and another time, I got into a line at the Sydney Airport in Australia immediately behind one of my best friends from high school. I hear about these sort of random-encounters-in-random-places quite often. I wonder how likely these sort of encounters actually are.

By: 68elcamino427

68elcamino427 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:51:12 +0000

2. Lodi – always loved this tune – and the album.
Your post evokes more bittersweet memories for me – again.
Summertime … 17 … working on the day dock … loading … unloading the trailers … sweating … burning the elbow as it contacts the roof of the trailer exposed to the 1:30 summer sun … up in the nose 40 feet away the opening of the trailer door looks more like an entrace to a cave. Hot dusty air. Trailers, trailers, and more trailers. Stuck in Lodi again.
After work I’d get my girl or she’d get me.
We would snag a cold sixpack and roll a silver hitter or two and listen the this CCR
and then Zepplin … you been groov’in … baby I’m not los’in …

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:05:11 +0000

1. A propos of nothing really, but a couple of recent comments on old posts (Ken McMullen, Dodgers, and Mark Belanger, Orioles) from people who knew the players profiled has spurred me, finally, to list a backlog of old posts with recent (or relatively recent) comments: Rich Folkers (Cardinals), Stan Thomas (Mariners), Rickey Henderson (A's), Frank White (Royals), John Lowenstein (Indians), Mario Guerrerro, '75 (Red Sox), Rod Carew (Twins), Ontiveros and Capilla (Cubs), Andy Etchebarren (Angels), Mike Newlin (Roundball Interludes), Rick Waits (Indians), Darrel Evans (Giants), Carl Yastrzemski, '78 (Red Sox), Clint Hurdle (Royals), Terry Puhl (Astros), David Clyde (Indians), Paul Mather (Behold the Unsortable), Joe Wallis (A's), Dave Winfield (Padres), Dave Lopes (Dodgers), Lerrin Lagrow (Tigers), Hal McRae (Royals), Ted Williams (Red Sox), Gary Templeton (Cardinals).