Craig Counsell is now managing the Brewers, boosting the squee factor to LOTS, all on his own because my word are the 2015 Brewers awful.

I don't have a favorite baseball team any more and all my favorite players have now retired. I'd find another fandom, or another player, but I don't know where to start and everything fannish is on Tumblr and I HATE it, there is no good interaction there. I suppose this is my farewell to fandom. I still occasionally--very occasionally--tweet @ ( Read more... )

Anyone around here excited about the upcoming baseball season or did everyone either quit fandom forever or jump to Tumblr?

“I had a lot of real-world material in me, believe you me,” Rowling said. “The thing about fantasy-there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy. You don’t have sex near unicorns. It’s an ironclad rule. It’s tacky.”Oh, come on, Jo, many professionally published paranormal romance writers can't be wrong. You can indeed have sex near unicorns ( Read more... )

Now who do I ogle in the Twins dugout? (really, is there any other reason to watch this team? Trevor Plouffe, I guess, but he's not Baker)

Second baseman Denny Doyle comes over to the mound, with his buttery-soft, alabaster skin and flaming red hair, to calm the pitted and pockmarked pitcher. Denny intones a few unremarkable assurances. His eyes are resolute, his mouth firmly set, his complexion creamy. Luis nods and touches Doyle's face thankfully, almost effetely. He then throws ( Read more... )

Not sure how long. I hope to be back before the World Series, at least.

I was just looking at the link at the last post on schlosseberbach to Aoike Yasuko's official website and from seeing Aoike's new color art of Klaus...yeah, I was not wrong to suggest, several years ago, to the person needing a real person PB for Klaus on an LJ RPG that she should use Jeff Samardzija. His hair's even more Klauslike now.

Everyone has apparently lost the Chad Qualls trade (well, maybe not, if my theory that Jerry DiPoto was told to shitcan all the guys who wouldn't sign on to the tenets of the Gibson regime is true,) because Matt Gurgen, the PTBNL from the trade, is having good ol' TJ surgery.

Jason Isringhausen seems to think that spring training is an epic ( Read more... )

Just finished In Fire Forged, the 5th Honorverse anthology. I am in absolute awe at Timothy Zahn's capabilities at writing tie-ins. He is the absolute master of tie-ins. (Yes, I've read the Thrawn trilogy.) I've got this theory of why gen for certain fandoms isn't popular and it comes down to official tie-in novels and short stories filling the ( Read more... )