D.L. Anderson Jeremy Hellickson on the mound against Norfolk, April 18, 2010. DBAP/DURHAM—What was that pitch Durham Bulls’ starter Jeremy Hellickson threw numerous times at the Norfolk Tides? It broke like a slider but wasn’t as fast; it didn’t have the fade of a changeup, nor the bend of a curveball. Well, it’s a slurve, […]
Adam Sobsey
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Durham Bulls beat Norfolk Tides by a touchdown: Lumberton
Triangle Offense couldn’t make it to the Bulls’ 14-7 drubbing of the Norfolk Tides last night, but we do want to jump in and note a few things: 1) Last year’s team was organized around pitching. Wade Davis, David Price and Mitch Talbot were all in the opening-day rotation and are all now starting in […]
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The Durham Bulls set to defend their Triple-A crown
Home opener Durham Bulls vs. Norfolk Tides Durham Bulls Athletic Park Thursday, April 15, 7:05 p.m. Chinese astrologers might have predicted that the Durham Bulls would win the International League and Triple-A Championships last season. It was the Year of the Bull. If that makes the Bulls’ ascendant 2009 sound vaguely occult or just lucky, […]
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Stop Wining! Pt. 6: Resume Wining
Is it really true what all those people say, that life is too short to drink bad wine? The more I think about it, the less I believe it. Most people don’t drink wine at all—-so they’re not drinking bad wine—-but to those who do, it isn’t worth spending much time worrying about whether the […]
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Durham Bulls lose to parent-club Tampa Bay Rays at DBAP: Notes from an Exhibition
DBAP/DURHAM—-Before we get into what happened on Saturday, hey—-baseball’s back! I’ll have a season preview of your International League and Triple-A National Champion Durham Bulls in the April 14 print edition of the Triangle Offense mothership, the Independent Weekly. A few passing notes on the team will pop up in the description of yesterday’s sun- […]
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Jim Wise’s Murder in the Courthouse
Murder in the Courthouse: Reconstruction and Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont By Jim Wise The History Press; 160 pp. The Civil War continues to spawn endless literature and film, but Reconstruction, which followed and may have been of greater and longer historical importance, gets relatively little attention. No surprise there. The period is defined […]
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Stop Wining! Pt. 5: In Which It Gets Boring
Well, maybe this series already has gotten boring. But what I mean is that, having discovered that not drinking for an extended period really isn’t that big of a deal, I have now reached the stage where I’m merely twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the experiment to lope to its appointed end; which is to […]
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Alex Chilton, 1950-2010
The revered pop musician Alex Chilton died on St. Patrick’s Day at age 59, sabotaging a day of revelry with his typical mordancy. Way back in 1967, he growled out the vocals on “The Letter,” the No. 1 hit of the short-lived Box Tops. Encouraged to gruff up his voice by producer Dan Penn, Chilton, […]
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Stop Wining! Pt. 4: Not Drinking for Lent Continues
I was writing last time about how it’s been rather pleasant to think, fantasize, etc. about wine during this time of Lenten abstinence, as a surrogate for drinking it. (Practical note: two weeks to go!) I took this daydreaminess to a new level on Saturday by attending a wine auction. I’d never been to one, […]
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Stop Wining! Pt. 3
The abstinence marches on… A Brief History What is Lent, anyway, and why abstain? A time of penance, sacrifice, discipline; like Ramadan in Islam. (Many, many cultures have such a rite.) “Lent” comes from a Teutonic word that just means “spring,” and it’s appropriate symbolically if not quite linguistically: The period actually leads up to […]