Ohhkay, busted, gongonzo is prsamsa's double as Charlie Kaufman=Donald K.

[joeallonby]

on 6/1/03 2:40 AM, perry sams at gongonzo at msn.com wrote:

> 
> Oops.
> in the name of integrity/accountability,
> I've gotton on a second ISP, MSN, and
> taken penname Gongonzo after a certain
> baseball player who thinks he's Babe Ruth
> and was All-Star HR Derby King one year.
> 
> PS--Boston listers, you got a helluva pitcher
> in BK Kim and much luck and all that.
> May the crowds tear down Fenway after
> a--no, no, you know what I mean.
> The D's are so snakebit I'd rather
> forego any futurism escept maybe
> Pedro for Cy Young, of course.
> 
> Prsamsa=gongonzo.Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download :
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> 
No, my friend. I disagree. Arizona native Shea Hillenbrand is a future
Hall-of-Famer. The kid is an RBI machine. By the way, he is a much better
first baseman than third baseman. His contract is cheap. His attitude is
workaholic. In exchange, the Red Sox got a reliever who is mostly infamous
for giving up home runs in crucial games to the MFNY Yankees.

Check out the Sons of Sam Horn for literate Boston Baseball masochism and
martyrdom.

<http://pub121.ezboard.com/fsonsofsamhornbostonredsox>



Peace
Joe

P.S. I tried to explain baseball to a bunch of European college kids in
Boston once. They saw the All-Star HR Derby and decided that baseball was
Mark McGwire cranking long shots out onto the Mass Pike. The next night, Ted
Williams (the man that John Wayne pretended to be) reappeared in Fenway
Park. Then Pedro Martinez faced the first six National League batters, the
best that one half of Major League Baseball had to offer. He gunned down
five of them and the sixth was thrown out stealing. He was transcendent. He
threw four different kinds of fastballs topping out at 97 mph. His
change-up, thrown with the same motion and arm speed, came in at about 66.
Mark McGwire damn near fell down flailing uselessly at it.

The European analysis the following day?

"Lousy All-Star game. Just a bunch of guys missing."

What has this got to do with Pynchon?

It's about America.

O.K. Terrance. Pynchon leads you to Delillo which leads you to Underworld
which leads you to baseball in NYC which leads you to the Yankees which
leads you to the Red Sox. So there. All the best writers are Red Sox fans.