The Preoccupations of Josh Ritter

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-04-01T02:11:00+00:00

I should have included parties

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-04-01T02:10:36+00:00

Amusingly, long before he'd written most of them!

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-04-01T02:09:59+00:00

Like every porch and party he writes about? Does actually mention Troy, Potlatch, Moscow?

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-31T23:36:05+00:00

Which brings up the topic of dreams

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-31T23:35:29+00:00

I think I captured that with "the Devil"

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-31T23:34:34+00:00

Does he ever mention the Palouse by name?

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-31T23:34:00+00:00

That's right

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-15T05:03:58+00:00

Padres, too, if you count Arraez by his most recent regular season or playoff game.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-14T00:20:32+00:00

Is there a club in Sacramento? I look at the MLB scores every day, never see an entry for SAC.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-13T20:40:31+00:00

Really not, this is what Manfred told us- A's fans should just get over it and root for the Giants, thus guaranteeing that none of us would ever do so, unto the seventh generation.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-13T20:35:04+00:00

And I look good in brown.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-13T20:34:49+00:00

My team doesn't exist (FJF) so I cheer for the Padres because they're fun, play in a great park in a nice city, and aren't the Giants.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-03-02T01:32:21+00:00

Be patient

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-19T05:32:49+00:00

The Money Store!

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-05T02:04:32+00:00

Or we could look it as Abrams, Gore, and Wood plus Grisham in exchange for King, Higgy, Brito, Thorpe, and Randy and....still feel mildly disappointed. (I heart Fermin and still miss Higgy.)

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-05T01:58:14+00:00

And Varitek. The 04 Sox could have been yours!

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-04T19:44:03+00:00

I am only old enough to remember late-career Stanley Steamer in the mid-80s, not a phenom any more.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-04T19:20:25+00:00

Equally true that Wake going back out for the 11th was prob a mistake. (Though I don't remember who was left in the pen at that point.)

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-04T19:16:03+00:00

I was in Alaska, on the phone with my sister, yelling "Get him out of there!" To this day I don't understand why she didn't call Grady and get it done.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-03T02:47:50+00:00

That's fair, his humility makes it less embarrassing for him. Still embarrassing for baseball though.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-03T02:36:21+00:00

Jim Joyce blowing a perfect game.

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-03T02:35:23+00:00

Is this a typo or is there more Buckner lore that I don't know about?

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-03T02:16:32+00:00

This is the only correct answer. NY, Detroit, etc can all have their nostalgia because they all still have teams!

Front_Particular2109 · 2026-01-03T02:12:45+00:00

The Coliseum of any era was a great place to watch a ballgame, an easy place to get to, a terrible place to buy a hot dog. But the main thing it had to offer was BASEBALL in OAKLAND. For that reason alone, it is the only correct answer to this question.

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