Angell at the Blog

Among sportswriting’s great traditions is Roger Angell’s elegy for the baseball-season-that-was. Fans, however, are being treated to an early sample, as Angell blogged [!] last night’s epic game between the Red Sox and the Rays. Here’s the newbie blogger offering on the game’s turning point: “This sleep-deprived fan will hold out for the ten-pitch, eighth-inning at-bat of the Boston center fielder Coco Crisp, whose stance begins with his chin oddly propped on his front shoulder, in imitation of Junior Griffey. Crisp’s relentless, unflustered five foul balls, four of them in a row, looked like the expert chisel-tappings of a celebrated safe cracker before the great underground door swings open.”