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Posted onSeptember 22, 2017September 22, 2017inArchivesby Ben Shibata

Under Further Review: The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

When I visited Wrigley Field back in 2013, the Cubs were just one year into rebuilding the team under the […]

Posted onSeptember 4, 2017November 15, 2017inFootball, Humor, Miscellany, More, Reviewsby Ben Shibata

Brett Favre Endorsements: My Painful Journey into the World of Hocus-pocus Marketing

Posted onAugust 28, 2017inBaseball, Culture, Miscellanyby David Morgan

So Your Kid Sucks At Baseball. How To Deal With It?

Posted onAugust 17, 2017February 25, 2022inBaseball, Humorby Lucas Hubbard

How to Watch (and Bet!) the Little League World Series

Posted onAugust 3, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Zach Vasquez

Alternate History Lessons in White Man’s Burden

Posted onAugust 3, 2017August 23, 2017inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider4 min read

REVIEW: Detroit Isn’t Good Enough to Justify the Misery of Watching It

Detroit is about one of the more unpleasant things to have happened in a city where so many unpleasant things have […]

Posted onAugust 2, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Daxson Hale6 min read

Dunkirk, Iron Man, and Sacrifice in Film

A personal sacrifice, when done right, can be an incredibly moving and effective part of a story. When done wrong, […]

Posted onAugust 1, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Jeremy Herbert11 min read

Personal Reflections on The Great Movie Ride (R.I.P.)

“Hooray for Hollywood” will never sound right to me without the tin-can hiss of a VHS tape many times rewound. […]

Posted onJuly 31, 2017July 31, 2017inBaseball, Miscellany, Sportsby Lucas Hubbard12 min read

Taking the Season One Click at a Time, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Sports Trackers

Growing up in Maine, I rooted for teams well outside the standard TV coverage map for the area. In the […]

Posted onJuly 29, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Delia Harrington6 min read

Gorilla Warfare: How War for the Planet of the Apes Mirrors U.S. History

War for the Planet of the Apes opens with scenes that are familiar to American viewers: soldiers silently work their […]

Posted onJuly 27, 2017August 23, 2017inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider4 min read

REVIEW: Have Your Butt Handed to You By Atomic Blonde

To the extent that there are James Bonds in the real world — dashing, highly skilled secret agents who can […]

Posted onJuly 27, 2017October 19, 2017inArchives, Baseball, Humor, Sportsby Ben Shibata6 min read

A Five-tool Writer

In baseball, there is a phrase used to describe a complete ballplayer: a five-tool player.  First talked about in The […]

Posted onJuly 26, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Bill Bria11 min read

The Comedy of Kubrick

The final scene of 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut takes place in a toy store. As Dr. Bill Harford and his […]

Posted onJuly 25, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Bill Bria6 min read

The Resourceful Creativity of George A. Romero

Until 1968, the term “zombie” was used to refer to the Haitian folklore belief of reanimating a dead body through […]

Posted onJuly 25, 2017August 23, 2017inMoviesby Eric D. Snider7 min read

Get Off My Plane and Lawn: Air Force One Turns 20

One of the music cues Donald Trump used during his presidential campaign  was from the soundtrack for Air Force One, a […]

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