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For the Few Béisbol Fans Here

(Edited because it was supposed to be a draft, as you can tell, what with it not making much sense.)

I try to avoid writing about my unintellectual passions here.  They're mine, and passionate, but they're not why you read me.  That said, since uniquely engaging prose stylings falls well within my ken of expertise, I feel justified in making the following recommendation:

If you're at all interested in béisbol, read Joe Posnanski's blog. 

This recommendation falls into the same category as the one I'd offer in defense of A.J. Liebling's A Neutral Corner: the man can write.  He can create and sustain interest in subjects you might not otherwise care about.  This is the defining characteristic of literary journalism: orchids weren't my thing before Orlean, and although I had fond thoughts of my undergraduate work in geology, I never yearned to return to before McPhee.  Posnanski possesses the same talent: read his column on Bo Jackson and tell me that you, béisbol fans, don't flash back.  Non-béisbol fans, read it and tell me that some part of you doesn't want to know what it is us fans flash back to. 

Writing with impassioned humility, Posnanski's able to riff like this:

For Your Information (Not, I Say, Not Edification)

Everyone is allowed one Frivolous Interest.  This is mine.  There's no way to link to everything I'll post there, but if you're really interested in what I have to say about this decidedly unacademic topic, I can post a link every once in a while.   If you're interested, you can read what I think about béisbol here.