Comments | likeanything: fic: Fine Damn Year (Texas Rangers gen: CJ Wilson, Cliff Lee) PG

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fic: Fine Damn Year (Texas Rangers gen: CJ Wilson, Cliff Lee) PG

Nov 05, 2010 17:30

title: Fine Damn Year
rating: PG
word count: 918
team/players: Rangers: CJ Wilson, Cliff Lee
warnings: Second-person POV.
notes: Have you listened to this guy talk? His stream of consciousness must be really fucking wordy is all I'm saying. Written for bats_and_balls round one, guitargirl39's prompt: "Ever since you hung up on me, I'm hung up on you" (Fountains of Wayne, " ( Read more... )

for: bats_and_balls, length: one shot, genre: gen, fandom: mlb rps, fic, team: texas rangers

Comments 26

littlestclouds November 6 2010, 00:29:43 UTC

my favorite part was not harden's cameo via text message now as it cj's verbose rambliness. it was crazy cliff lee and his pilfered baseball. there seems to be some good advice underneath that "stone-cold crazy".

unreckless November 6 2010, 00:33:16 UTC

I have no idea what that first sentence is trying to tell me.

it was crazy cliff lee and his pilfered baseball.

I prefer the word "purloined"

littlestclouds November 6 2010, 11:16:04 UTC

WAIT. You have an icon. How did I not see this?! Curse my tiny phone screen.

sunsetfog November 6 2010, 07:17:30 UTC

Awww, this is so sad and believable. If I weren't a Giants fan, I would have picked the Rangers in this series. Cliff Lee does come off as creepy-stoic (not that we don't have our own blossoming creepy-stoic rookie) and I enjoyed watching him be that way. I loved CJ, though, my favorite Rangers pitcher who I wish I could steal for my own team.

In an alternate universe, I finished the pessimistic fic I started writing for Matt Cain before the WS. Poor CJ and Cliff got Cain'd in their games. (Poor Matty the consistent workhorse usually gets terrible run support and has a bad W-L record despite actually being a good pitcher. See this and this and a special message just for CJ.)

tl;dr: I liked it. Hope for a rematch next year and hope Cliff stays in Texas.

unreckless November 6 2010, 23:11:47 UTC

I'm a Giants fan! Like, way more than of the Rangers. I'm totally used to the concept of getting Cain'd. Poor Matt Cain.

sunsetfog November 8 2010, 00:41:28 UTC

Oops, haha. Still, mmmm, CJ.

I still haven't worked up a pairing for Cain yet. I'm sure next season, after a devastating 1-0 loss, something will work itself out.

unreckless November 9 2010, 03:57:02 UTC

I have a friend who's trying to convince me of Cain/Lincecum and I just can't. I can't. Tim Lincecum is unslashable. So I feel you.

Thread 5

pickedoffthird November 6 2010, 16:22:59 UTC

Oh, wow. This is really, really, really good. It's sad, but not... devastating. It captures, really well, what it's like to lose the World Series, I think, like someone said above. It seemed very much in CJ Wilson's voice, and I got a pretty good sense of Cliff Lee's personality too.

Also, the Rich Harden/Barry Zito thing made me laugh out loud.

pickedoffthird November 6 2010, 16:24:43 UTC

errr "sad but not devastating" sounds stupid. Like, I meant that it was sad, but I could read it without wanting to kill myself.

But yeah. Fantastic job.

unreckless November 6 2010, 23:12:38 UTC

I'm glad you liked it! Thank you.

sheep_mambo November 7 2010, 06:30:24 UTC

I will always love that icon you have. MALE MODEL.

guitargirl39 November 8 2010, 02:53:57 UTC

Ahhhh, I love this. Cars and moral principles and Facebook fans, oh, CJ. This definitely rings true to me as his voice, quirky and rambling as it is, and I love his bitchiness at poor Richie, ahaha. Great stuff.

unreckless November 9 2010, 03:59:37 UTC

I started to dislike CJ Wilson a little bit the more interviews I watched/listened to in order to write this. He's... kind of a I-need-to-take-you-in-small-doses douche, but he was fun to write. I'm glad you thought the voice rang true. Thank you!

americanleaguer November 8 2010, 19:54:43 UTC

I like how completely different they are, Wilson and Lee. Because they are very different, at some very basic levels, but you don't see that too often in baseball fic for some reason. Maybe because it's hard to imagine two guys so very different relating, although they're on the same staff so they must, at least a little bit.

Also

patting your shoulder in that I-wish-you-were-into-the-senseless-murder-of-woodland-creatures-for-sport-so-we-could-really-bond way he has

I think this was a really good example of it, both for the fact that I can exactly picture it as a mannerism (? or whatever) of Lee's, and for the fact that Wilson would think of it that way.

unreckless November 9 2010, 04:02:10 UTC

I think it probably helps that Cliff Lee is largely indifferent to his surroundings and that Wilson had a huge mancrush on him from the start. Some of the funniest interviews ever in Indians postgame shows were Lee ones. The Indians TV guys are FLAMING idiots and Lee would totally shut them down. I kinda miss him just for that.