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Posted by Guest Columnist on June 4th, 2009 under Baseball
Fake Ken Tremendous or whatever you want to call him is back with another Bill Little exegesis. Ouch. – The Mgmt.
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Throughout the long, dark off-season, Bill Little has written about nothing other than dead, dying or terminally ill former Longhorns. I was starting to get depressed. It’s my job to riddle Bill Little columns with rhetorical bullets, and he was ducking behind the sports journalist’s equivalent of human shields. Until yesterday, that is, when our old friend finally made a critical mistake and bolted headlong out into the middle of Cornball Street. Enjoy.
Bill Little commentary: NCAA Regional chronicles — Last man standing
It is hard, if not darn near impossible, to be all alone in a crowd. And yet there Preston Clark stood, watching with the rest of the baseball world in Austin, as his line drive to left field battled to defy nature.
June 1, 2009
Bill Little, Texas Media RelationsIt is hard, if not darn near impossible, to be all alone in a crowd.
If the Cracker Barrel handed out fortune cookies, they would say shit like this.
And yet there Preston Clark stood, watching with the rest of the baseball world in Austin, as his line drive to left field battled to defy nature, to somehow best a 25 mile per hour wind that seemed determined to blow it foul.
Close to 14,000 eyes were watching the ball, including those of the three Texas runners on base who had somehow produced a 10-10 tie out of a four run deficit heading into the ninth inning of the NCAA’s Austin Regional Championship game against Army.
Frozen just a few feet from home plate, locked in his dreams, was Preston Clark.
This is a straight-forward application of Little’s First Law of Dreams, which states: “you can get locked in them.”
The road for the senior from Rockwall had been as tough as it has been for any Longhorn ever.
…
The guy once heralded as a “can’t miss” super star even moved quietly into the 2009 Austin Regional, inserted in the lineup in the Longhorns’ opening game against Army as the designated hitter-a right-handed batter in the fifth spot of the lineup against a left-handed pitcher. But-and you have heard this before-playoffs do make strange heroes.
Bill’s right – I have heard that before! The phrase “playoffs make strange heroes” appeared in this piece, writen approximately a week ago by none other than Bill Little! So, I read this allegedly common saying last week, in Bill’s article.
Even more amazing – I’ve read the entire phrase “you have heard this before-playoffs do make strange heroes” before! Bill wrote that in a 2005 article about the Texas baseball team – an article in which William Pappadapolis Little pulled the impressive feat of both coining the phrase “playoffs make strange heroes” and, in the same breath, claiming that his readers had heard the newly-invented cliche before.
You see, aside from Bill Little-penned college baseball articles, the phrase “playoffs make strange heroes” has never been uttered, written, thought or considered by any human being ever. Just Google it and see for yourself.
But, and you’ve heard this before, wistful old sportswriters do make strange lemonade!
From the beginning of the tournament, Army coach Joe Sottolano had warned that his team, which batted .334 over a 53 game regular season-could hit. He also made it very clear.
I don’t think anyone – not even noted warner and extreme clarifier Joe Sottolano – could make clear what in the hell a “53 game regular season-could hit” is.
Army had not come to the NCAA Regional as a fourth seed with expectations of a nice visit to Austin and a box of “you were here” medals.
That’s good, because I don’t know why anyone would expect to receive a box of “you were here” medals. You know, since such medals do not actually exist in reality and someone would therefore have to be dangerously psychotic to expect to be given an entire box of them.
“It is not our nature,” he had said, and his steel eyes and those of his players made you know he meant what he said.
The image of the entire Army baseball team and coaching staff glaring at Bill Little in befuddled anger after he asked whether they came to Austin for a box of “you were here” medals makes me giggle.
Augie Garrido has often said that baseball is a game of the unexpected, and this 2009 Austin Regional proved to be that for many of the so-called analysts who at one point called it the easiest of the 16 regionals. It was, without question, the best balanced, and the most competitive, of all of the many regionals held in Austin since the first was held at what was then Disch-Falk Field in the summer of 1979.
Sweet Jesus! Can somebody in Bellmont please edit the run-on sentences? Or, at the very least, hire a a team of primates to randomly delete words from these pieces?
Any of the four teams could have won it.
Texas State went out first, suffering two late losses to Boston College, 8-7, and Army, 7-4.
The Austin Regional was so close that any team – even the team that didn’t win a single one of their two games – could have won the tournament.
Now, that’s close!
Skipping a bit…
Mack Brown has a saying when qualifying something that is really good, and it’s…
“I know what good is!”
…”I won’t say it is the best, but I will say no one has anything better.”
So it was with Wood’s truly remarkable performance. He threw 169 pitches and basically pitched more than 12 innings of no-hit baseball. Old timers at Texas will tell you how Bobby Layne pitched a no-hitter at Texas A&M to claim the Southwest Conference title while nursing a cut foot and a dozen cold beers. The “gold standard” for Texas pitching masterpieces prior to Saturday night was thrown by Burt Hooton during his junior season in an SWC showdown against Texas Tech. Hooton, who was credited with a no-hitter by pitching a perfect game over the regularly schedule contest, defeated the Raiders’ Reuben Garcia, 1-0, in a 13-inning game many claim was the best pitched game ever in the SWC. Hooton didn’t walk a batter, wound up allowing one hit (the batter was retired on a double play), struck out 19, and faced the minimum 39 batters.
What an unconnected mish-mash of a paragraph. Here’s a summary: “Austin Wood had a good pitching performance. Old people will tell you a story about Bobby Layne pitching and drinking. The best pitching performance ever by a Texas pitcher was by Burt Hooton. Also, Reuben Garcia pitched pretty well for Texas Tech once. Here are Hooton’s stats: blah, blah, blah. Okay, I should move on to something else now since I’ve fully and completely argued whatever banal point I intended to make.”
Now, here on a surprisingly still late May Saturday night,
I have to admit that Bill is correct. Austin is typically windy on late May nights, especially on Saturdays.
Preston Clark stood at home plate, awash in the dream of every player who ever picked up a bat or threw a ball.
Preston Clark experienced Little’s Second Law of Dreams, which is: “you can be awash in them.”
It is that moment of the spirit, when time stops, and the world is in freeze frame.
It is also that moment of the senility, when Bill Little forgets to complete his thought.
Folks down the left side of the ball park looked at the third base umpire, who thrust his arm toward the field. Preston Clark raised his hands, and started to first base.
“When,” they asked Joe Sottolano, “did you believe your team was in trouble?”
Who is this mysterious “they” asking questions of Coach Suttolano in unison? Bill’s account of the press conference makes it seem like questions were posed by a crowd of biblical Jews.
“When the grand slam happened,” he said. “Until then, we have enough confidence in ourselves and in our team to believe we had a chance. It is not in our nature to do anything else.”
What happened at UFCU Disch-Falk Field Saturday night and early Sunday morning was historical. The record will show it was the longest game in school history, and in NCAA history. Individual records were set, and they will all be dutifully recorded in the annals of time.
I’d like to meet the diligent little fellows who spend their days dutifully recording individual records in the official Annals of Time. I bet they look just like hobbits.
But what happened on Sunday night and throughout the tournament was memorable. It is the essence of sport that you remember the moment.
Never mind athleticism, teamwork, strategy and competition. The essence of sport is long-term memory!
It is then that iPhones and digital cameras give way to the pictures that hang on the hallways of the chambers of the mind.
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: Bill Little is attempting to jam electronics, picture frames and other paraphernalia into his brain, where he apparently believes there are chambers for storing such things.
Because the wonders of technology are proven and true, but they can never capture one thing: A feeling.
Electronics may be incapable of capturing a feeling, but can the borrow one?
That is the pride Joe Sottolano felt.
What is the pride Joe Sottolano felt?
as he looked the young men he had recruited to come play baseball and become American soldiers at The United States Military Academy, a similar kind of pride that Augie Garrido has felt in watching young men grow,
Please stop, Bill. Please. I’m begging you to stop writing uncomfortable things about young men growing. This is like the 90 bazillionth time you’ve made a comment about an adult male enjoying watching young men grow, and it’s really starting to creep us all the fuck out. So, like, please knock it off, okay?
Most of all, it is about Preston Clark, and all those like him who have battled adversity.
What is about Preston Clark? Here’s a helpful 5th grade-level writing tip; when you write that “it is about” something, it helps to first specify what in the hell “it” is.
It is, once again, about…
AAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!! I give up. I really. I just. I… ugh.
…waking up knowing who you are, and going out and realizing who you can be. And that is the best dream of all.
No, not even close. The best dream of all is the one where I’m swimming in my own personal Olympic-sized pool full of gold dubloons like Scrooge McDuck, surrounded by a harem of scantily-clad and particularly frisky Beyonce look-alikes. THAT’s a good dream. Second to that dream is the one where I’ve been adopted by a tribe of hobbit-like creatures who dutifully record individual records in the Annals of Time. That is also a good dream.
Waking up and realizing who you can be, on the other hand, is not a good dream. Hell, given that its basic premise is the step of waking up, it’s not even a dream at all. It’s called “approximately 7:00 AM every fucking weekday morning.” And it’s frankly a bit depressing.
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admin commented on the blog post Top 10 Defensive Lapses 8 hours, 26 minutes ago
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Nordberg said:
June 4th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
“Please stop, Bill. Please. I’m begging you to stop writing uncomfortable things about young men growing. This is like the 90 bazillionth time you’ve made a comment about an adult male enjoying watching young men grow, and it’s really starting to creep us all the fuck out. So, like, please knock it off, okay?”
It’s like on the front page of the AAS sports section today… a story about the Vista Ridge girls softball team has a headline of “Light and Tight”. Really?
HenryJames said:
June 4th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I’m waiting for him to write an article titled ‘I’d hit it.’
Bill Little said:
June 4th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
As a fellow exegetical scholar, I applaud Fake Ken Tremendous, what it is to be, he is.
HenryJames said:
June 4th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
What is ‘it?’
Nero said:
June 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Forty-five minutes with a GMAT prep book would really do Bill some good. He’s constantly confusing or omitting his references within his sentences and paragraphs. He also needs to learn how to use commas, and if he gets daring, semicolons. The hyphen is rarely grammatically appropriate.
Holy Cow said:
June 4th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Genius:
“Sweet Jesus! Can somebody in Bellmont please edit the run-on sentences? Or, at the very least, hire a a team of primates to randomly delete words from these pieces?”
hobbs said:
June 4th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Very nice.
Bartoncreek said:
June 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Outstanding. When I read some of his sentences my brain just goes blank. I have no thoughts or ability to remember what the hell I just read. You have a great gift of giving his words context. Thanks.
Watcher said:
June 4th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Author of article: Bill Little created your reason to publicly exist.
fatbastard said:
June 5th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Did Little write that piece when he was drinking? Have you ever seen someone who had too much booze and gets overly and inappropiately emotional, and has diminishing coherence?
The General said:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:58 am
Did Little write that piece when he was drinking? Have you ever seen someone who had too much booze and gets overly and inappropiately emotional, and has diminishing coherence?
If he did, he has been on a vodka IV drip for 30 years.
ctex80 said:
June 5th, 2009 at 4:06 am
fatbastard,
Have we met?
Freddie Steinmark said:
June 5th, 2009 at 5:33 am
“The road for the senior from Rockwall had been as tough as it has been for any Longhorn ever.”
Dying young from cancer vs. a little adversity. Yep, its a toss-up, Bill.
uthookem said:
June 5th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Shit, folks…I’m trying to listen to a lecture here at good ‘ol NASA, and this shit is killing me!
Great stuff.
Lo & behold... its Steak Diane said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:33 am
I found the article quite interesting, esp. the part concerning iPhones and digital cameras. I no longer read books, magazines or newspapers. I no longer listen to the radio or watch television. In fact, the only communication device I have inside my east 56th street rat trap apartment is a laptop-and cell-that’s it. I control all of the incoming information I receive. I am not subjected to pretentious celebrities or news that really is not news but info-mercials in disguise. BTW-the article is not all that terrible.
Art Vandelay said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:35 am
“It is hard, if not darn near impossible, to be all alone in a crowd.”
“If the Cracker Barrel handed out fortune cookies, they would say shit like this.”
Coffee. Exiting mouth.
jc25 said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Nordberg said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:42 am
““The road for the senior from Rockwall had been as tough as it has been for any Longhorn ever.”
Yeah this part was just flat-out offensive.
Lo & behold... its Steak Diane-part 2 said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Its entertaining. Of course Barking Carnival Guest Columnists are always welcome. Then BC rips the Guest Columnist to shreds like a pack of wild, wild dogs. Word to the wise-this is not your grandfather’s sports blog.
One land, two sea said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:54 am
P.S. Why bring Beyonce into this?
Bo Obama said:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:57 am
I’ll eat his fuckin’ liver! This article is dog shit.
BrickHorn said:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Author of article: Bill Little created your reason to publicly exist.
…in the same way that gun-slinging crack dealers give police a reason to exist.
Chalk said:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Barking Carnival is a celebration of ALL kinds of viewpoints. That is why I enjoy reading Barking Carnival. It is also highly educational. My vocab has increased and I like all of the analysis thingys that you dogs do.
High School English Teacher Rowdy Roddy Piper said:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:45 am
‘Vocab’ and ‘thingys’ are not words. HOW IS THAT FOR EDUCATION????? BOOOOOOOM!!!! BC BRINGS THE PAIN!!!!!
PatronSaint said:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:08 am
And yet there Preston Clark stood, watching with the rest of the baseball world in Austin, as his line drive to left field battled to defy nature, to somehow best a 25 mile per hour wind that seemed determined to blow it foul.
* * *
Now, here on a surprisingly still late May Saturday night…
Hm. PatronSaint, dressed in all-white with his black pants and black shirt, detects some inconsistent imagery.
Chooky said:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:12 am
“Have you ever seen someone who had too much booze and gets overly and inappropiately emotional, and has diminishing coherence?”
Yes.
James Lipton said:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Hm. PatronSaint, dressed in all-white with his black pants and black shirt, detects some inconsistent imagery.</em)
Well played, sir. You are a deeeeeelight!
Bill O'Reilly said:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:21 am
“Have you ever seen someone who had too much booze and gets overly and inappropiately emotional, and has diminishing coherence?”
Yes.
Pithy.
Vasherized said:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
The only problem I have with Bill Little is that he writes too infrequently.
ChicagoTTU said:
June 5th, 2009 at 10:07 am
“Preston Clark stood at home plate, awash in the dream of every player who ever picked up a bat or threw a ball.”
And that dream of course: two chicks at one time.
With the ferocity of a BearKat, Clark gripped his bat with an electric tenacity that echoed the likes of Kieschnick, Murray and Fahey. It was then this solitary man uttered through clenched teeth, “Let’s go to wood town.”
Dreams do come true… Dreams… come true.
Steve Nebraska said:
June 5th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Can I borrow a feeling?
Can you lend me a jar of love?
Hurtin’ hearts need some healin’
Take my hand with your glove of love
Parlin Hall said:
June 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am
“Frozen just a few feet from home plate, locked in his dreams, was Preston Clark.”
Like old refrigerators, dreams should have their doors removed before they are put out on the curb.
Apparently, this goes for the freezer units as well.
Sweet Baby Hezeus said:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
In all that is holy, how can you start with this defecation on the language of our fathers:
“And yet there Preston Clark stood, watching with the rest of the baseball world in Austin, as his line drive to left field battled to defy nature, to somehow best a 25 mile per hour wind that seemed determined to blow it foul.”
And later in an attempt at dramatically setting the stage in verbiage only Bill would consider informatively descriptive:
“Now, here on a surprisingly still late May Saturday night,”
OK Bill…let’s get a reset shall we? So, was it a bitch of a wind with human-like “determination” blowing in from who-knows-where those bitches come from, or was it “surprisingly still”, or, better yet, maybe 25 MPH wind gusts in Austin in late May (particularly on a Saturday night) qualify as “still”…Sweet Baby Me, get it straight, OK?????
Hold it…I’ve just gotten in my head the lead-in for the next BLittle baseball piece:
“It was a dark and stormy night….”
TXinDC said:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
^^ Honestly, I thought B-Little was writing that it was “surprisingly still late May”, instead of early June or any other time.
Not that that makes any more sense than what he actually meant.
Beaten Dead Horse said:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I hate the offseason.
Watcher said:
June 6th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Remember, Bill Little is your connection to Longhorn past. Days when you ran around on the astro turf after sparsely attended games against NDSU and marvelled at the height of Kenneth Sims’ shoulder pads above your head. Days when every middle age Texas fan carried a padded fold-out seat and a Nikon or ‘noculars around their necks – just like Bill Little. Remember.
Huckleberry said:
June 6th, 2009 at 8:19 am
It’s pretty simple guys. Average conditions on a late May Saturday night are sustained 50mph wins with gusts of up to 90mph. So a 25mph wind, determined as it may have been, is surprisingly still.
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June 7th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I’m going to allow this spam.
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June 7th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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June 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
That’s not spam. Its some side work I’m doing. Do me a solid and book for one night.
Nordberg said:
June 8th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I’m on board with anyone with “jug” in their name.
Vasherized said:
June 8th, 2009 at 6:47 am
i thought ClosetoJumping was in New York, not Kiev.
Apparently his Russian mail order bride has gained Internet access.
coach Callahan said:
June 8th, 2009 at 9:12 am
and she has friends
Spring Branch Horn said:
June 8th, 2009 at 9:51 am
“Preston Clark stood at home plate, awash in the dream of every player who ever picked up a bat or threw a ball”
I really doubt that
the Bobs said:
June 8th, 2009 at 11:27 am
“Preston Clark stood at home plate, awash in the dream of every player who ever picked up a bat or threw a ball”
Thank goodness the ball overcame the “determined”, yet “still” wind and went out, so Preston could get in the shower…
Vox Unpopuli said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
The next time someone tells me a college baseball player has had a hard road I am going to punch them in the face. A few years back, we had a catcher with one testicle – that guy could have whined about it but he didn’t. Brooks Keishnick was balding after his third career start. No bitching. Roger Clements was denied performance enhancing drugs during his ENTIRE TEXAS CAREER. Not a peep.
In my mind, the only thing you have to feel sorry for a Texas baseball player about is having to duck all the mediocre to excellent college vajajay thrown at them on a regular basis. Write a column about that, Bill.
Top Ten Player’s Girlfriends I Would Like to Shower With – Photos Included, by Bill Little
Bo Scaife said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
“The road for the senior from Rockwall had been as tough as it has been for any Longhorn ever.”
Seriously?
Art Vandelay said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Roger Clements?
Wasn’t he the Texas Governor a few years back?
The General said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
<em)Roger Clements?
Wasn’t he the Texas Governor a few years back?
He adjusted well to life after baseball.
Art Vandelay said:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I wonder if he knew the Tyler Rose, Earl Cabell.
Nordberg said:
June 8th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Or maybe “Mini Earl”, Ricky Washington.
RansomStoddard said:
June 10th, 2009 at 4:45 am
I don’t know. Making fun of Bill Little seems wrong somehow. Sort of like making fun of your grandfather because he pulls his pants up to his armpits.