DBAP / DURHAM—After a pair of disastrous, er, colonizations at the hands of Columbus on Friday and Saturday, Durham rebounded with a crisp 4-2 win today. The game took just 2:11 to play. The Bulls relief corps was back to its April form, throwing four scoreless, one-hit innings in relief of winner Wade Davis. (n.b. […]
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This Post Is Almost About The Bulls
I imagine one of my colleagues will post some thoughts today about the Columbus Clippers grinding the Bulls into a fine paste (ratio of water to Bull: 14:1) last night at the DBAP. Meanwhile, a minor (league) transaction yesterday got me thinking about Chris Wise’s pondering over at Watching Durham Bulls Baseball the other day. […]
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A Colloquy with Gerry Hunsicker; Bulls Split With Knights. Also, I Am Psychic.
DBAP/DURHAMFirst (and second) things first: The Bulls split a two-game miniseries with the Charlotte Knights, sumoing them last night, 14-7, and then rolling over to receive same on “Education Day” this morning [sic], 9-1. The Bulls’ PR people beat me to the choicest pun the way the first waiters to spot staff-meal always scarf up […]
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Chapel Hill native Wells Tower is America’s next top author
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned By Wells Tower Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 238 pp. “I’m missing home, bad,” Wells Tower confided not long ago in an e-mail, a few days before we talked about his debut collection of short stories, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. By “home” he meant Chapel Hill, where he grew up and owns […]
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Bulls Hit Home?
The Durham Bulls return to the DBAP tonight for their second homestand of the year. They went 5-5 on their three-city road trip after posting a 6-1 opening mark at home. Over the course of a season, a .500 away record and an .857 home clip would almost surely qualify them for another postseason run […]
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More Fernando Perez Prose
Fernando Perez has another piece of writing in the New York Times, this one about how it’s too early in the season to assess teams or players. Fernando’s team, the Rays, will be relieved to hear that: The Bulls’ parent club is just 6-10, in last place in the American League East Division. The Bulls, […]
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Bulls on the Move
At a game during the Bulls’ first homestand, I was talking to Ken Tanner, who at one point was the Bulls’ radio broadcaster and now seems to have something like emeritus status. Tanner pointed out to me a new feature the Bulls have added to the nightly press pack: a rundown of recent transactions involving […]
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Existential variations in Life X 3
Life x 3 Theatre in the Park Through April 26 Theatre in the Park’s tagline for Life X 3 is: “Where Groundhog Day meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” That description gets at two prominent features of Yasmina Reza’s play, which puts two couples in a living room with a lot of alcohol and watches […]
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Maybe Fernando Perez Should Write This Blog
The Tampa outfielder, formerly a Bull, is out for at least half the season with a wrist injury, but he isn’t sitting around moping about it. On the contrary, he’s rooting the Rays on and writing for the New York Times. Not only can the guy put together a spiffy sentence, if this article doesn’t […]
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Bulls Finally Lose, And They Care
DBAP/ DURHAMDavid Price was back on the mound at the DBAP last night. Everyone — Price, his manager Charlie Montoyo, his catcher John Jaso, and all of us in the press box — agreed that his second outing of the year was an improvement over the first one. He needed just 65 pitches to finish […]