As a rule, I rarely go to see musicians I haven’t heard. My tastes are way too idiosyncratic and polarized — despite the best efforts of “You may also like…” algorithms, I still remain determinedly indifferent to, for example, Guided … Continue reading
I was a little too old to be part of the Napster generation. I remember when filesharing became a thing — I’m sure I dug around the dark recesses of the internet to find a few songs at the time … Continue reading
The Legal Weed went into our elimination-bracket game vs. 78 Horowitz — who we’d faced only once in the regular season, a game we were winning 1-0 when a giant storm blew in and forced it to be called off … Continue reading
As we prepared for our game today against SFX Anderson, we had one hope in our back pocket: Jonathan Lai, their ace who shut us out back in April, had according to the PSAL website thrown a seven-inning one-hitter for Beacon on … Continue reading
Well, that was a game. I’m going to do my best to do it justice, but all the emotions may not translate into mere prose… With Dylan off at a travel tournament, Ben M took the mound for the Legal Weed … Continue reading
Yes, we were supposed to have two games today, but the storms on Thursday and Friday had left the fields “a disaster,” according to another coach who saw them, so anyone who could help was asked to show up as early … Continue reading
As the Legal Weed gathered for our first and only matchup against 3rd-place 78 Horowitz, it looked like this at Grand Army Plaza: And this on the radar: Would we be able to get in five innings (or an hour … Continue reading
Before we get to today’s game recaps, one scoring note: The official scorer has reviewed both Sam’s single-and-error from yesterday’s game vs. Lieber and Dylan’s from our game a few weeks back against Nachsin, and ruled them to be home … Continue reading
I hope no one minds if I skip the usual blow-by-blow recap of today’s game vs. 78 Lieber (nickname: Chico’s Bail Bonds, “because we have yellow uniforms like the Bad News Bears and play like them too”), as we have … Continue reading
The games are coming fast and furious now. Our opponents, Holy Name Carmody, turned out to have a large contingent of players from Holy Name Meehan, the longtime dynasty that we knocked out in the semifinals two years ago behind … Continue reading