Wednesday, April 08, 2009
The Slowey Foods Movement
PREGAME
RK and I are going to go off on what seems like an obfuscate and senseless digression - but bear with us, it ends up at Carlos Silva. But mostly, it's a moo cow!
RK: To understand baseball is to understand that the game played is not baseball as such. Let me be clear: baseball qua baseball (the theoretical foundation of this blog) is the noumena of baseball, but thing in esse
The game played is but a representation of various nodal points in the myriad contingencies and infinite possibilities of this noumena: in effect, the game played is the phenomenological understanding
WV: The interesting part of this myriad network of contingencies is that the whole phenomenon is bounded, like a non-neurotic id, by a system of rules and boundaries. By being subjected to an order, one can think of a baseball subject.
RK: That's right, this is the finite infiniteness. Nothing exists - the noumena after all only exists in that we observe phenomena - but once the ball leaves the pitcher's hand, the universe can start. From that single node, necessarily
WV: True. In the sense that what we're observing is a "subject", there is introduced a sense of otherness, and also an ethics. Meaning, there is a right and a wrong way to cognitively analyze the game.
RK: And since we're not part of the game, we're others othering, opening up (I can't believe I'm referring to Derrida again) infinite ethics. And the ethics are simple: the game comes into us, and flows through us, and out of us. The way of watching, enjoying and analyzing it are many and varied - but there is also a correct and incorrect way to do this. The correct way is to revel. Revel in improbably comebacks, in hitters making good, in pitchers throwing strikes, and in Carlos Silva's specialty: the Sinker That Doesn't Sink
WV: Like I said, a moo cow.
TOP 1ST
WV: "FS Twins": The team that pumps gas for you.
RK: Fox Sports is always already localizing their coverage. From Fox Sports to Fox Sports North to Fox Sports Twins
WV: Jose Morales is hoping this thing wraps up before his curfiew, lest his parents ground him.
RK: Yeah, he's younger than some of the students I have
BOTTOM 1ST
WV: "15-Game Loser", with emphasis on the end of the phrase.
RK: I feel like Silva has no business recording an out - this has raised my expectations to titanic heights
TB: Sandcastle needs no stinkin' second pitch
WV: If things get dull, let's break down how much Silva is making per pitch.
RK: Maybe it's the uniforms but I don't notice 30-35 lb losses/gains. Maybe I just have an enlightened concept of body image
TB: Oh yeah, home runs do occur in baseball. Fascinating.........Like that.
WV: Nice that that occurs while Bert's talking about Silva "making things happen".....touché, Mr. Blyleven.
RK: Morneau is taking the dome roof down one ball puncture at a time
WV: With all these shots to right field, I have this nagging desire to purchase power tools....but I just can't think of where I can do it.....oh what's the name of that place...Hanley's? Stanky's? Oh, I'll just never remember.
RK: Sharkey's Wrench Emporium and Trade Expo Center. Pretty sure about that. 100 bucks
TOP 2ND, TWINS UP A DEUCE
WV: Why this game is fit to be tied.
RK: Silva, thou art loosed!
WV: I think the M's have figured out that Slowey throws strikes.
TB: It's a good thing they got rid of Ibanez or else we'd really be in trouble
RK: I believe there will be a timely GIDP. Then again, I believe in a lot of things that don't happen
TB: Slowey should probably just grow a goatee and complete the Radke-esqueness
WV: Rattled, ruffled. Dick, I see your confusion. One connotes a snake, the other a grouse. On one hand you're being threatened, on the other your threatening. It's ok. I can also speak in antithesis.
RK: The dialectic is, after all, according to David Harvey, how we naturally think
WV: On that plane, Slowey should start envisioning lazy fly balls.
RK: Slowing time would open up space
WV: See: This is the dialectic. That space was necessary so that Silva could pitch.
BOTTOM 2ND, TIED
RK: I have a good feeling the Span is gonna just cold bat a run in
WV: He'll unleash all of his fucklioness.
WV: Dick's befuddlement at Carlos staying in Minnesota during a "long miserable winter" has now alienated the entire fanbase.
RK: And there it is!
TB: Knocked that ball out. Cold.
WV: Stanley, that's it.
RK: "Explodes the bat right there" Exactly Bert
TB: I'm certain there's a rule against conventional dynamite in bats.
TOP 3RD, TWINS 4, M'S 2
RK: "Span the Man?" Gimme a call Dick, I'll teach you how to nickname
TB: What's next, Crede the Sweetie?
RK: Though I'm afraid "fucklion" is probably not conducive to cable television
WV: How about "Slowey the Flowbee"
RK: Casilla the Quesadilla
TB: Punto the C-- uhh...nevermind
WV: I have to say, I miss Telly and all of his awkwardness and parapraxis.
RK: Yeah, who will Telly it like it is?
WV: Poor Telly, an innocent victim of the stranglehold of Merriam Webster's semantic hegemony.
RK: You'll be happy to know Telly now works for the Brewers
WV: Is he the guy that goes down the slide when they hit homeruns?
BOTTOM 3RD
RK: Fan alienation continues: Bert picked Yankees to win AL Pennant. That's even worse than the alienation from my labor
TB: At least I hope he jinxed it. Personally I'm looking for the Bombers to lose 110 games
TOP 4TH
WV: Not a good trend with all these dingers.
RK: Must be the springtime Colorado air?
RK: Thank you for the update, Uncontrollable Id - but at least they have the new stadium! It doesn't matter if they never win another game!
WV: Ugh. Slowey's a brick and I'm slowly drowning.
RK: It's like he's having almost good series against hitters
WV: What on earth is happening?
RK: Yeah, where did my good feelings go?
BOTTOM 4TH, TWINS DOWN 1
WV: Just 1 run, it's still good, it's still good.
RK: I always hold on to hope
TOP 5TH
WV: It's not often that I prefer reading Lacan to watching baseball
RK: Yeah, my alternative is writing about Critical Discourse Analysis - which, I mean, is just the discourse analysis of Discourse Analysis, right?
WV: I suspect that that might be redundant. Just a hunch.
WV: You should just write "Discourse Analysis" onto a page and turn it in.
RK: It'd be a sealed text
BOTTOM 5TH
(Pulling A Blyleven is experiencing technical difficulties. Please enjoy the insane ramblings of RK)
This is the inning the boys get to Silva! I know this because Span the Bran Muffin just cold coaxed a walk. Do you even know how many walks he has issued in his career? DO YOU EVEN KNOW?!
I don't either but I assume it is not many. OK here we are.
RK: Morneau straight husltin'!
WV: Now this is more like a Silva start.
RK: I love being right
WV: Right now they're explaining infinite ethics and othered otherness to Gordito on the mound.
RK: Yeah, keeping with the Kantian theme from the Pregame: Silva proves his maxim that "All bodies are extended"
Some more than others.
6TH
WV and RK: uhh...BASEBALL!
TOP 7TH
WV: Breslow went to Yale, y'know. Did you know that? Huh? Ivy League?
RK: He's a nuclear chemist astronaut!
RK: But you know, it's not art until it's been valorized
WV: Hold your tongue, Bourdieu!
RK: Hahaha, Leviathan was pointing to the wrong base. Redmond will attend to that, to be sure
WV: And Griffey can sit down.
WV: YALE! Scientists! Building things!
RK: Science! Industry! Technology!
BOTTOM 7TH
WV: Dimples, dimples, dimples.
RK: Buh, jibbabuh, wha?
WV: If that had been Breslow on second....he would've invented nuclear fushion with the base.
RK: Cuddy looked like his mom was gonna yell at him for that. Maybe she will
TOP 8TH
RK: "The back of your bubblegum card." Well i'm intrigued
WV: What's a baseball card?
RK: I like this "Market Monday." As if we couldn't further distort the importance of the DJIA in our everyday lives
WV: The dow is directly related to my personal self esteem, even though it affects me in no way, shape or form.
Wait a second.......
False consciousness? Hmmm? Engels? Bagels?
RK: Look man, all I want is a damn number to tell me everything I need to know
WV: Imagine if we could reduce other phenomena to a number. Like, cosmopolitanism, or imperialism.
RK: Another example of how baseball is a noumena - the numbers therewith only serve fleeting phenomenological ends
BOTTOM 8TH
WV: So this Crede guy.....
RK: I'm always one to root for the guys, but Crede has looked ugly tonight
TOP 9TH/POSTGAME
RK: Nathan's looking sharp.
RK: And that's 200 for Joe!
WV: Our bullpen, doing it's job this season. And Slowey picks up a Livan win.
RK: And so one of the infinite possibilities of the phenomenological representations of the noumena comes to pass. And who doesn't love it when that representation puts a W in the Twins' favor?
RK and I are going to go off on what seems like an obfuscate and senseless digression - but bear with us, it ends up at Carlos Silva. But mostly, it's a moo cow!
RK: To understand baseball is to understand that the game played is not baseball as such. Let me be clear: baseball qua baseball (the theoretical foundation of this blog) is the noumena of baseball, but thing in esse
The game played is but a representation of various nodal points in the myriad contingencies and infinite possibilities of this noumena: in effect, the game played is the phenomenological understanding
WV: The interesting part of this myriad network of contingencies is that the whole phenomenon is bounded, like a non-neurotic id, by a system of rules and boundaries. By being subjected to an order, one can think of a baseball subject.
RK: That's right, this is the finite infiniteness. Nothing exists - the noumena after all only exists in that we observe phenomena - but once the ball leaves the pitcher's hand, the universe can start. From that single node, necessarily
WV: True. In the sense that what we're observing is a "subject", there is introduced a sense of otherness, and also an ethics. Meaning, there is a right and a wrong way to cognitively analyze the game.
RK: And since we're not part of the game, we're others othering, opening up (I can't believe I'm referring to Derrida again) infinite ethics. And the ethics are simple: the game comes into us, and flows through us, and out of us. The way of watching, enjoying and analyzing it are many and varied - but there is also a correct and incorrect way to do this. The correct way is to revel. Revel in improbably comebacks, in hitters making good, in pitchers throwing strikes, and in Carlos Silva's specialty: the Sinker That Doesn't Sink
WV: Like I said, a moo cow.
TOP 1ST
WV: "FS Twins": The team that pumps gas for you.
RK: Fox Sports is always already localizing their coverage. From Fox Sports to Fox Sports North to Fox Sports Twins
WV: Jose Morales is hoping this thing wraps up before his curfiew, lest his parents ground him.
RK: Yeah, he's younger than some of the students I have
BOTTOM 1ST
WV: "15-Game Loser", with emphasis on the end of the phrase.
RK: I feel like Silva has no business recording an out - this has raised my expectations to titanic heights
TB: Sandcastle needs no stinkin' second pitch
WV: If things get dull, let's break down how much Silva is making per pitch.
RK: Maybe it's the uniforms but I don't notice 30-35 lb losses/gains. Maybe I just have an enlightened concept of body image
TB: Oh yeah, home runs do occur in baseball. Fascinating.........Like that.
WV: Nice that that occurs while Bert's talking about Silva "making things happen".....touché, Mr. Blyleven.
RK: Morneau is taking the dome roof down one ball puncture at a time
WV: With all these shots to right field, I have this nagging desire to purchase power tools....but I just can't think of where I can do it.....oh what's the name of that place...Hanley's? Stanky's? Oh, I'll just never remember.
RK: Sharkey's Wrench Emporium and Trade Expo Center. Pretty sure about that. 100 bucks
TOP 2ND, TWINS UP A DEUCE
WV: Why this game is fit to be tied.
RK: Silva, thou art loosed!
WV: I think the M's have figured out that Slowey throws strikes.
TB: It's a good thing they got rid of Ibanez or else we'd really be in trouble
RK: I believe there will be a timely GIDP. Then again, I believe in a lot of things that don't happen
TB: Slowey should probably just grow a goatee and complete the Radke-esqueness
WV: Rattled, ruffled. Dick, I see your confusion. One connotes a snake, the other a grouse. On one hand you're being threatened, on the other your threatening. It's ok. I can also speak in antithesis.
RK: The dialectic is, after all, according to David Harvey, how we naturally think
WV: On that plane, Slowey should start envisioning lazy fly balls.
RK: Slowing time would open up space
WV: See: This is the dialectic. That space was necessary so that Silva could pitch.
BOTTOM 2ND, TIED
RK: I have a good feeling the Span is gonna just cold bat a run in
WV: He'll unleash all of his fucklioness.
WV: Dick's befuddlement at Carlos staying in Minnesota during a "long miserable winter" has now alienated the entire fanbase.
RK: And there it is!
TB: Knocked that ball out. Cold.
WV: Stanley, that's it.
RK: "Explodes the bat right there" Exactly Bert
TB: I'm certain there's a rule against conventional dynamite in bats.
TOP 3RD, TWINS 4, M'S 2
RK: "Span the Man?" Gimme a call Dick, I'll teach you how to nickname
TB: What's next, Crede the Sweetie?
RK: Though I'm afraid "fucklion" is probably not conducive to cable television
WV: How about "Slowey the Flowbee"
RK: Casilla the Quesadilla
TB: Punto the C-- uhh...nevermind
WV: I have to say, I miss Telly and all of his awkwardness and parapraxis.
RK: Yeah, who will Telly it like it is?
WV: Poor Telly, an innocent victim of the stranglehold of Merriam Webster's semantic hegemony.
RK: You'll be happy to know Telly now works for the Brewers
WV: Is he the guy that goes down the slide when they hit homeruns?
BOTTOM 3RD
RK: Fan alienation continues: Bert picked Yankees to win AL Pennant. That's even worse than the alienation from my labor
TB: At least I hope he jinxed it. Personally I'm looking for the Bombers to lose 110 games
TOP 4TH
WV: Not a good trend with all these dingers.
RK: Must be the springtime Colorado air?
RK: Thank you for the update, Uncontrollable Id - but at least they have the new stadium! It doesn't matter if they never win another game!
WV: Ugh. Slowey's a brick and I'm slowly drowning.
RK: It's like he's having almost good series against hitters
WV: What on earth is happening?
RK: Yeah, where did my good feelings go?
BOTTOM 4TH, TWINS DOWN 1
WV: Just 1 run, it's still good, it's still good.
RK: I always hold on to hope
TOP 5TH
WV: It's not often that I prefer reading Lacan to watching baseball
RK: Yeah, my alternative is writing about Critical Discourse Analysis - which, I mean, is just the discourse analysis of Discourse Analysis, right?
WV: I suspect that that might be redundant. Just a hunch.
WV: You should just write "Discourse Analysis" onto a page and turn it in.
RK: It'd be a sealed text
BOTTOM 5TH
(Pulling A Blyleven is experiencing technical difficulties. Please enjoy the insane ramblings of RK)
This is the inning the boys get to Silva! I know this because Span the Bran Muffin just cold coaxed a walk. Do you even know how many walks he has issued in his career? DO YOU EVEN KNOW?!
I don't either but I assume it is not many. OK here we are.
RK: Morneau straight husltin'!
WV: Now this is more like a Silva start.
RK: I love being right
WV: Right now they're explaining infinite ethics and othered otherness to Gordito on the mound.
RK: Yeah, keeping with the Kantian theme from the Pregame: Silva proves his maxim that "All bodies are extended"
Some more than others.
6TH
WV and RK: uhh...BASEBALL!
TOP 7TH
WV: Breslow went to Yale, y'know. Did you know that? Huh? Ivy League?
RK: He's a nuclear chemist astronaut!
RK: But you know, it's not art until it's been valorized
WV: Hold your tongue, Bourdieu!
RK: Hahaha, Leviathan was pointing to the wrong base. Redmond will attend to that, to be sure
WV: And Griffey can sit down.
WV: YALE! Scientists! Building things!
RK: Science! Industry! Technology!
BOTTOM 7TH
WV: Dimples, dimples, dimples.
RK: Buh, jibbabuh, wha?
WV: If that had been Breslow on second....he would've invented nuclear fushion with the base.
RK: Cuddy looked like his mom was gonna yell at him for that. Maybe she will
TOP 8TH
RK: "The back of your bubblegum card." Well i'm intrigued
WV: What's a baseball card?
RK: I like this "Market Monday." As if we couldn't further distort the importance of the DJIA in our everyday lives
WV: The dow is directly related to my personal self esteem, even though it affects me in no way, shape or form.
Wait a second.......
False consciousness? Hmmm? Engels? Bagels?
RK: Look man, all I want is a damn number to tell me everything I need to know
WV: Imagine if we could reduce other phenomena to a number. Like, cosmopolitanism, or imperialism.
RK: Another example of how baseball is a noumena - the numbers therewith only serve fleeting phenomenological ends
BOTTOM 8TH
WV: So this Crede guy.....
RK: I'm always one to root for the guys, but Crede has looked ugly tonight
TOP 9TH/POSTGAME
RK: Nathan's looking sharp.
RK: And that's 200 for Joe!
WV: Our bullpen, doing it's job this season. And Slowey picks up a Livan win.
RK: And so one of the infinite possibilities of the phenomenological representations of the noumena comes to pass. And who doesn't love it when that representation puts a W in the Twins' favor?
# posted by WV @ 8:05 PM 
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Hiya boys!
Just wanted to share the schadenfreude: O's lead the Yankees 7-1 in the 6th. Wang imploded his way through 3 and 2/3 innings and is responsible for the carnage. Heh.
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Just wanted to share the schadenfreude: O's lead the Yankees 7-1 in the 6th. Wang imploded his way through 3 and 2/3 innings and is responsible for the carnage. Heh.
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