Will Leitch: Old Habits Die Hard
If anyone could make us interested in baseball, it’s Will Leitch (yay touchdown!). The editor of the incipent Gawker Media sports blog, Leitch has been plying that particular trade at The Black Table for many moons, and his Midseason Major League Baseball Progress Report is now available for people who are interested in such thing as Dale Sveum’s flipper arms, advice for Carlos Beltran and the, er, “dimensions” of Mike Lupica. We thought we’d check out how Toronto was doing, just because, and though he impugns our pretty hometown that’s not the interesting part of the paragraph. That comes in the process of describing crack pitcher Roy Halladay, about which he says:
Like Mr. Burghoff’s wife, Halladay remains under the Radar, partly because he pitches in Toronto and partly because nobody can figure out why we don’t get a day off for his last name.
Force of habit is a powerful thing, no? Not unlike a man making sweet, sweet love to a brick wall.
Update: Will has clarified, semi-outraged: “No, no, no! Everyone in New York is so media centric that they actually think I’m talking about the magazine Radar. It’s the CHARACTER “Radar,” from M*A*S*H*; hence, “Mr. Burghoff’s wife.” You’re the fifth person to have thought I was talking about the magazine; all five of them live in NYC.” He clarified further that Gary Burghoff played Radar O’Reilly on the show. We get it now! We used to want to be Hot Lips Houlihan. We also wanted to be a marine biologist and swim with sharks, so you really can’t put much store by that. In any case, Will, this one’s for you.
Disclosure: I have written for The Black Table and am friends with Mr. Leitch. He has not consented to the use of his name and this particular version of his likeness for this post. Oops.
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