DBAP/ DURHAM—I don’t know how I managed to write yesterday’s ultra-long post without stating the obvious about these meaningless end-of-season games: All the Bulls really need to be concerned about from here on out is keeping everyone healthy. Perhaps there was some subconscious superstition (can something be both sub- and super- at the same time?) […]
Adam Sobsey
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Gwinnett Braves beat Durham Bulls again: Sobering thoughts
courtesy of Durham BullsDurham Bulls pitcher Darin Downs DBAP/ DURHAM—With last night’s 6-4 loss to the Gwinnett Braves, the Durham Bulls have lost seven of their last 10 games. It’s sort of easy to ignore it, because the Bulls have had record-setting success this season and the recent losses have had no impact on their […]
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Gwinnett Braves nip Durham Bulls: Full Nelson! or The Meek shall inherit, and the inherited shall score
www.milb.comGwinnett’s Dan Nelson wrestled down the Bulls in his Triple-A debut DBAP/ DURHAM—Charlie Montoyo meant it when he said on Wednesday that his new catcher, 22-year-old Kyle Holloway, just called up from Rookie-league Princeton and in his eighth week of professional baseball, would see playing time as a Triple-A Durham Bull. As has been noted […]
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Durham Bulls’ four-run rally in eighth beats Charlotte Knights: What you leave behind
http://bit.ly/btzhm6 (www.citizenofthemonth.com) DBAP/ DURHAM—I have a pretty well practiced routine when I cover games at the DBAP, which includes what I bring to the ballpark: two Parker Jotter pens, my voice recorder, my phone, my press pass and my wallet. I also wear a version of the same outfit to every game. Ballplayers, too, tend […]
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Durham Bulls beat Charlotte Knights: The Carousel
DBAP/ DURHAM—On a very, very busy day in the world of Durham Bulls baseball, just about the last thing that seemed important was the game itself—the Durham Herald-Sun reporter came to an interview session at 4:45 and then left before the actual game started. To dispense with that—and then revisit it a bit later—Durham rode […]
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Durham Bulls miss Border(eau), cough up lead, lose to Charlotte Knights
DBAP/ DURHAM—”My predicament was the just punishment of that most fatal of human follies, our not having known when to stop.” So writes Henry James in his novella The Aspern Papers, which features an elderly and rather ghoulish lady by the name of Miss Juliana Bordereau. The book came to mind for a few reasons […]
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Durham Bulls fall to Norfolk Tides, nine-game winning streak ends: Back on the bus
www.mobileweigh.com DBAP/ DURHAM—Ahh, these two-game homestands: Just as you start to settle into the rhythms and narrative elaborations of a weeklong set, you go down into the clubhouse 27 hours after the Bulls return home from an 11-day road trip only to find the room mined with duffel bags and players dressing and packing expeditiously […]
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Durham Bulls edge Norfolk Tides for ninth straight win: Bright prospects
photo courtesy of Durham BullsRichard De Los Santos broke the Bulls’ Triple-A record for wins in a season DBAP/ DURHAM—During their most recent homestand, a distant memory that ended way back on August 12 when we were still deep in the grip of summer, the Bulls won five games and lost two; that put to […]
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Algonquin Books’ 25th edition of New Stories From the South
New Stories from the South Edited by Amy Hempel Algonquin Books; 360 pp. See Related Events below. At first glance, the landmark 25th edition of Algonquin’s venerable New Stories From the South appears to be alphabetically arranged. It starts off with newcomer Adam Atlas and then moves on to old-timer Rick Bass, who led off […]
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Full(er) transcript with Fernando Perez
When the Indy originally solicited Durham Bulls outfielder Fernando Perez to write something about a Bull’s life in Durham, he said he was too busy. That seemed at first like an excuse, but in fact, as it turns out, Bulls don’t have much of a life in Durham, nor time to write about it. Ballplayers […]