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Tommy lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a Phillies fan and will not criticize John Kruk, no matter what nonsense he spouts on Baseball Tonight. The name Joe Carter, and the date October 23, 1993, ought not to be mentioned in his presence.

Caleb lives in DC, where he watches 15 hours of Red Sox baseball on MLB.tv each week. He is a lefty, but fate has led him to pursue the nine-to-five instead of the twelve-to-six. He is convinced that Big Papi actually eats beisbols…in fact he thinks he may have seen it.

Alex lives in Chicago. He is a Giants fan and refuses to talk to people about Bonds unless they are willing to get into a real discussion. He went to the 1989 Battle of the Bay the game before Loma Prieta, though as an A’s fan (he was only four and was misguided). He also left a Neil Young concert to watch game six of the 2002 World Series, but doesn’t want to talk about it.

“The exemplary spectator is the person who understands that sport is a benign illusion, the illusion that order is possible. It’s a form of society that is rat-free and without harm to the unborn; that is organized so that everyone follows precisely the same rules; that is electronically controlled, thus reducing human error and benefiting industry; that roots out the inefficient and penalizes the guilty; that tends always to move toward perfection. The exemplary spectator has his occasional lusts, but not for warfare, hardly at all for that. No, it’s details he needs–impressions, colors, statistics, patterns, mysteries, numbers, idioms, symbols.”
-Don DeLillo

“The Earth is a hanging slider that God is sitting back on, waiting to drive it out of the universe.”
-Bill “The Spaceman” Lee