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Neil Hagerty
May 18 at 5:20am
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BEISBOL
**working out some place sketches & maybe have an origin story [not wholly fact] by Tuesday
BEISBOL USA
The game many of us grew up playing [& it is a game a person can play into their 80s] was known as “Beisbol”— I learned it in southern california, southeastern atlantic coast, Florida, urban townhouse suburb areas, military housing areas, public schools, central summer league. It differs from Cracker Ball (steam hammer versus electric torpedo) in a few general, gentle ways.
For example:
1 Ball is used for the entire 9 inning game. Ties stand. Ranking by pts.
2 pitching changes per team.
2 non-injury substitutes. Subs cannot be removed once placed, barring injury.
Advancing as a runner from bases may only occur with the standing runner(s) beginning the play with 2 feet touching the bag.
No steals or other between-pitch live ball action.
The outfield wall is deep, 450ft. minimum recommended. Home runs are rare.
Pitching mound and home plate are the standard distance.
The typical backstop should be close to the plate and rounded. Passed balls &c. advance runners 1 base and then are dead balls.
Balk rules are loose.
Infield fly = strike (incl. 3rd.)
Double if ball passes wall NOT on fly.
Foul balls are strikes, even 3rd strike.
Most the rules of Base-Ball are intact if not mentioned.
― Mike Dixn, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
I was listening to a Silver Jews live 7” from a rate early gig, I guess it was some sort of Drag City showcase. Berman says something along the lines of “before the gig we were playing monopoly with Royal Trux, and they had an interesting strategy. They bought Baltic Avenue, put one house on it and quit.”.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
In the Patreon, Neil shared a pretty heavy story about his childhood, and how the incident shaped his character. I guess I won’t repost it here (even though he gave his blessing to the sharing of audio files and stuff), out of an abundance of caution.
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
Cross-ref from the RTX thread:
(....)1 year ago, after they torpedoed the trux thing fat possum came back and said they'd let me do a record to come out in the fall of ’19 and they would back the record up with tour support and so on. They buried the record this may I think and still owe me 17K in unpaid invoices for travel, show expenses, sessions, musicians, artwork. The publishing company offered me 0$ for it. That’s 0$ I came away with for all the songs I wrote for the trux record and the solo record.This is the work that I do and I don’t get to choose the 2 bosses who i work for but if things go bad they blame the musicians & listeners have no sympathy. Things get contorted.
All I know is to stay on the path my father set me on, keep working to get very good at a few things, don't listen to white lies, you can't go wrong with a song-- no one else ever had better advice for me.
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
one month passes...
ten months pass...