The Durham Bulls’ last seven games have been decided by two runs or fewer. To some degree that’s just a function of chance, and if nothing else it makes for exciting baseball: every game has been meaningful all the way to the last out. Unfortunately for Bulls’ fans, their team has lost five of those […]
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Durham Bulls Bounce Back, Beat Mud Hens
I guess Durham outfielder Matt Joyce reads Triangle Offense. I ended my previous post by urging Joyce to break out of the horrific (3-38) streak in which he’d been mired since his return to the Bulls from Tampa; so he hit a two-run homer in the first inning to open the scoring in the Bulls’ […]
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A rollicking revival of Sylvia in Raleigh
Sylvia Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy @ Kennedy Theater, Progress Energy Center Through June 28 There’s an old axiom in the theater about dogs: If you put one on stage, the audience won’t watch anything else. Dogs are the ultimate upstagers. In Sylvia, the playwright A. R. Gurney subjects the dog-onstage gimmick to a […]
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Durham Bulls Fall to Toledo in 13
I arrived home last night around 11:00 expecting to check the box score and game summary and post a few thoughts about whatever outcome I found there—but what I found was that the Bulls were still playing baseball in Toledo. They were in the 12th inning and fifth hour of action at Fifth Third Field, […]
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Kazmir, Durham Bulls Stop Skid: We’re Not Gonna Take It
DBAP/ DURHAM—Athletes will try almost anything to stop a losing streak. Now and then, though, they need help from above. On Monday night, the Durham Bulls got it, in the form of music. Go to the DBAP a few times and you will hear the same songs over and over. When Justin Ruggiano steps up […]
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Durham Bulls Lose Eighth Straight: The Longest Day
DBAP/ DURHAMSo much attention is paid to Father’s Day that it was easy to miss the other red letter stamped on Sunday: June 21 is the summer solstice. The ballgame ended right around 8:00 p.m., and there was still plenty of daylight left. It wasn’t fully dark until after 9. But solstice or no, it’s […]
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Bulls Lose Sixth Straight: At Sea
DBAP/ DURHAM—Let me get the good news out of the way first, since that’s what the Durham Bulls did tonight. First, the franchise set a remarkable record: most fans ever to see a ballgame at the DBAP, 11,300 (!). And it was a very comfortable oversell: with the SRO behind the Blue Monster and the […]
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Bulls Swept: Wayward Sons
DBAP/ DURHAM—After the Lehigh Valley IronPigs completed a four-game sweep of the Bulls last night—Durham’s fifth straight loss—the postgame musical selection was Kansas’ “Carry on Wayward Son.” The Bulls’ Director of Media Relations, Matt DeMargel, assured me that the song was played at random, offering as evidence a computer touch screen of choices available to […]
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Bulls Lose Again: Hamstrung!
DBAP/ DURHAM—Henry Mateo’s hot hitting earned him a promotion to the leadoff spot in manager Charlie Montoyo’s lineup on Tuesday, and he rewarded Montoyo’s choice by going 4-5 and raising his average to .360. Mateo was in pole position again on Wednesday afternoon—another heavy, gray, sodden day in Durham—and he led off the bottom of […]
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The Book of Dads
The Book of Dads Edited by Ben George Harper Perennial, 304 pp. It seems appropriate that both The Book of Dads and Father’s Day arrive at the onset of summer, when dads and kids head for the shore. A handful of these 20 essays take place on the watera couple of them even go frighteningly […]