Spotted: Nearly Real Baseball on Almost Television

Arencibia

While much of what appears on the author’s desktop is both detestable and also capable of being detested, that’s less the case with the image above, itself recently captured and and edited and uploaded by that same author by means of his personal computer.

Depicted in that image are Toronto right-hander Drew Hutchison and Philadelphia batter J.P. Arencibia, the latter of whom one finds in the process of recording what the Phillies broadcast team has referred to optimistically as Arencibia’s “first spring-training home run.”

While such a course of events typically wouldn’t merit attention, it’s notable today on account of how the image has been made by possible by the first telecast available this spring by way of MLB.TV. Later today, it would appear, curious fans also have the opportunity to observe Cleveland and Cincinnati face off roughly 2000 miles away from the dirty, dirty shores of the Cuyahoga River. For the moment, however, Maikel Franco is batting for Philly and in the midst of a 1-1 count.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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Manute Bol sings better than this
10 years ago

Nearly real = nearly spectacular!

Clock
10 years ago

nearly notgraphs

Bernie Sanders
10 years ago

If I become president, my first order of business will be creating the Department of Notgraphs, dedicated to serving the small minority of people who enjoy baseball and Emil Cioran. Next, I will appoint Banknotes Harper as Chief Laureate of Pounding. Then I will hire Carson Cistulli as Secretary of Funk and Dayn Perry as Secretary of [Word Removed by Administrator]. All other former Notgraphs writers will also be offered lucrative positions starting at 200% of their former Notgraphs salaries (which will cost $600-$1,000 per writer.) Finally, Well-Beered Enlgishmen, Jon Elway, Hitler but Sadder, Jack, and other top posters will be offered indefinitely-long, unpaid internships.

Antonio BananasMember since 2016
10 years ago
Reply to  Bernie Sanders

Dank.

LHPSU
10 years ago

Nearly real baseball writer on almost Fangraphs.