Yes for those asking, I am going to open a bookstore. Details to come
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I'm glad I was able to scoop this
Wow, Will
I know you’re depressed of late, but opening a fake Carl Crawford Twitter account is a bit much, yes?
Feh.
by The Ol' Perfesser on Dec 14, 2010 9:52 PM EST up reply actions
thats a verified account
it’s not me
by Freneau on Dec 14, 2010 10:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
my guess is he got a lot of tweets about it and a) has a sense of humor
and b) may think it’s a cool idea
I'm afraid the store would have to specialize in
Audio Books
The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Dec 15, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That’s WAY better than the FedEx guy and Reggie Sanders. WAY better.
by BlueEyes_Austin on Dec 14, 2010 10:08 PM EST reply actions
Are we sure this isn't Cari Crawford?
Making watching baseball as fun as doing your taxes.
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I can't wait for Jon Heyman to start writing a story on crawford's new bookstore
Making watching baseball as fun as doing your taxes.
My Twitter feed.
Your new job will be to run Carl Crawford's Bookstore
It was your idea after all, you should benefit from it! :)
You are creating reality now
Maybe this is like “Inception” and you’re actually in your own dream right now.
The immoderate moderator
by Scott McKinney on Dec 15, 2010 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
Too cool.....Rany was right, we should have thrown all kinds of cash at Carl....
he could have filled our cool street cred opening now that Banny is wandering in the wilderness
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Dec 14, 2010 11:34 PM EST reply actions
You now have the power to fabricate reality with words.
by Yamfun Cheng Kamfun on Dec 15, 2010 12:09 AM EST reply actions 6 recs
And now everything makes sense,
DM trades for Frenchy because you wrote about it.
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
by Yamfun Cheng Kamfun on Dec 15, 2010 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
He just needs to start writing about how the Royals are awesome
and will sign stars, and all their draft picks will pan out!
Will, you need to write about less depressing realities.
Could you write something about me winning the lottery for Christmas please? I’ll split it with you when I win. Thanks.
How about a Strike Force v. Buttheads preview
With a prediction of 170+ points for Strike Force for the second week in a row…
I would love to see that phrase
in a fortune cookie. It seems stately and elegant.
Look on the bright side...we could be Pirates fans.
by Patek to Rojas to Mayberry on Dec 16, 2010 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
thats gotta be good for the blog, yes?
Fire Everyone
by billybeingbilly on Dec 15, 2010 2:12 AM EST up reply actions
The education system really is failing people.
a fair amount of people also thought that was serious
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball...Rock Chalk Talk
You mean it wasn't serious?
Shit—I had a nasty -gram in the can for Cliff. Guess I’ll go ahead and delete.
"Shot by my own men."
by StonewallPDS on Dec 15, 2010 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
Kagemusha
has become a real warrior, Martin Guerre has “returned”, the Monkees have become a real band, and Carl Crawford is opening a bookstore.
Also, this just in...
…Pittsburgh is getting a Major League team.
Look on the bright side...we could be Pirates fans.
by Patek to Rojas to Mayberry on Dec 15, 2010 9:28 PM EST up reply actions
Kagemusha
is that a kurosawa flick? It’s ringing a bell……
The Monkeys are a real band.
"Hey, maybe he really does like everyone. But if you like everyone, do you actually like anyone?" - big matt
Now When The
Archies become a real band and Don Kirshner becomes a cartoon…………..
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Dec 15, 2010 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
It Depends On
Your reality.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Dec 15, 2010 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
That would be a great nickname.
The kagemusha is a body-double who stands in for a real warrior. This makes your army look bigger, and the process is similar to the way that we dress Yuni up as a shortstop and have him stand between second and third.
Because of the Kurosawa film, however, the term has also come to mean that pretending you are someone can begin to transform you into that person… I’m not sure that’s gonna happen with Yuni, but repeated viewings of the film might evenually explain GMDM’s thought process with regard to such ballplayers… of course, Spoiler Alert! the film doesn’t have a happy ending.
Other potential kagemusha on the roster might include Kendall, who spent most of a season disguised as a man who can throw a baseball, Guillen, who spent three seasons disguised as a man who can catch a baseball, etc…
by kcemigre on Dec 15, 2010 2:19 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If I were going to open a bookstore,
it would focus mainly on Jung and Graham Greene. This would keep my lease expenses low.
"Shot by my own men."
Oh boy.
McDonald confirmed by e-mail that his post was satire.
That’s not how the Harvard Bookstore saw it. Located in Cambridge, Mass. (though unaffiliated with the university, the bookstore responded to the idea that the Red Sox had just brought on a very literary player. "File this under ‘amazing,’ " the store tweeted, with a link to McDonald’s story. “Holy cow!” added Massachusetts-based book blogger Megan Sullivan when she retweeted it.
The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Dec 15, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
You punked Cambridge elites.
That is so very awesome.
by BlueEyes_Austin on Dec 15, 2010 1:54 PM EST up reply actions
Not sure I would call
the Harvard Bookstore employees “Cambridge elites,” but very awesome indeed.
Overgay is Destiny
"Holy cow!1!1!"
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball...Rock Chalk Talk
I'm tired of you people taking advantage of trusting East Coast folk
Making watching baseball as fun as doing your taxes.
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by Matt Klaassen on Dec 15, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE INTERNET
You know, in the olden days of the 1980’s, you used to sneak into somebody’s dorm room, plant a transmitter and microphone in their braces, and talk to them as if you were Jesus to get them to believe things. It was a lot more effort.
by Sweep_the_Leg on Dec 15, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
but you could also go ice skating in the hallways in the dorms and make your prof’s house explode with popcorn, so maybe the 80s were better after all.
Hating life as a Royals fan 365 days a year at Royalscentricity
by Old Man Duggan on Dec 16, 2010 3:44 AM EST up reply actions
“It was intended to be a joke,” McDonald said in an e-mail, “though I wish it was true.”
Haha. This whole thing is unbelievable.
I'm surprised you have time to comment on RR today
With all the calls/emails/requests that you must be fielding wondering where you got your scoop
the funniest thing is that
people believe that a Royals blogger gets any sort of scoop on one of the biggest FA signings in Boston history….like their crazy media hasnt gotten pretty much every story from every angle about CC in the past week.
Fire Everyone
by billybeingbilly on Dec 15, 2010 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
seriously
it’s from a blog called “Royals Review” filled with quotes from Carl Crawford on the streets of Boston
yep, this must be true
This is from the same part of the country that brought us
“Judith Butler, super great intellectual” and “Louis Althusser, not a total joke,” so…
Making watching baseball as fun as doing your taxes.
My Twitter feed.
by Matt Klaassen on Dec 15, 2010 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
Congratulations.
"Crimes don't pay no one but the lawyers." --Last words of executed murderer Ernest Gaither Jr., 1947
Hey Will
could you please write a story about Steve Jobs’ intent to found a science- & technology-oriented school in Sonoma, California?
Nothing too fancy
but definitely an award of full tuition for all students, just as Franklin W. Olin used to do. And maybe an open university program in sabermetrics.
Also hires one "Matt K."
as a “visiting lecturer” who shows up once a year, rambles incoherently, and sits at home collecting a paycheck.
Making watching baseball as fun as doing your taxes.
My Twitter feed.
by Matt Klaassen on Dec 15, 2010 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
It would be insanely cool
If Crawford is serious in his Tweet about opening some kind of bookstore. It doesn’t have to be an antiquarian shop – just a bookstore.
Will would have succeeding in creating a bookstore through a satirical blog on a Kansas City Royals fan site. How cool and improbable is that?
And the irony of course – most of the Royals’ FO have probably never set foot in a bookstore. Well, at least they’ve never visited the statistics section.
Will – don’t ever let anyone devalue what a PhD in English Lit can do.
Imagine the hilarity
Royals Review convinces a $142 million player in Boston to open a bookstore but can’t get the Royals to sign a player who OBPs above .300. sigh
by jsolo on Dec 15, 2010 2:53 PM EST up reply actions 8 recs
Crawford's in a great position here...
he can have the proceeds go to his charity foundation, he can easily promote it, and it will be mentioned approximately 5,000,0000 times per baseball season
at the very least, it would not lose money
front window displays full of "The Soul of Baseball!"
Making watching baseball as fun as doing your taxes.
My Twitter feed.
by Matt Klaassen on Dec 15, 2010 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
That's actually a surprisingly good idea
Crawford invests fifty grand or so in renting a shopfront near Harvard and then hiring a manager and a couple of part-time clerks. He calls the place “Crawford’s Sports Bookstore” and specializes in, of course, sports books. He also sets up an Amazon-type web bookshop. All the profits would go to the Jimmy Fund. Bill Simmons would promote it all over the place for free. Great publicity for Crawford, and a tax write-off as a charitable contribution.
Every single Red Sox fan who can read, and there must be at least 25,000, would buy all his Bill James annuals there. He wouldn’t be competing with the real community bookshops because they don’t carry too many books on sports, and as for Borders and Amazon, screw them, they can deal with it.
"Crimes don't pay no one but the lawyers." --Last words of executed murderer Ernest Gaither Jr., 1947
Hey! I'll need a job after January 15th and I have 10 years of book store experience!
So please let me know when it’s appropriate to send you my resume. ;)
even if it lost money
won’t he need a tax write off?
This is one of the coolest things in the universe
"Hey, maybe he really does like everyone. But if you like everyone, do you actually like anyone?" - big matt
So
when ya’ll see a story written later about how Blake Lively (or Rachel McAdams, I haven’t decided yet) is obsessed with a guy who goes by the screen name GoBabies!!, you know what my intentions are.
BOOM! ROASTED!
No, you don't understand.
You have to get Will to write it for you.
Feh.
by The Ol' Perfesser on Dec 15, 2010 6:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You can't just ask him though.
You have to will Will to write it for you.
"Hey, maybe he really does like everyone. But if you like everyone, do you actually like anyone?" - big matt
prophecy doesn't work that way
the vision has to come to Will in a fit of inspiration a la the Oracle at Delphi and then he blogs about it.
Anyway, this whole Crawford-bookstore thing is awesome and hilarious. After Crawford tweeted the message I was so confused that went to check his Boston signing press conference to see if there was actually an original source besides Will.
by swing and a miss on Dec 16, 2010 12:28 AM EST up reply actions
I agree
but McAdams has played one of the most loveable characters ever (Wedding Crashers)
BOOM! ROASTED!
Dare I invoke the cliche
and suggest that Will is having his fifteen minutes of fame?
Feh.
by The Ol' Perfesser on Dec 17, 2010 10:53 PM EST reply actions
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