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The superiority of a Jesuit education

April 22, 2010, 12:35 pm
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Nothing against the Christian Brothers…But if this run-scoring play — which is the viral video of the day — during a remarkable comeback win against Iona doesn’t define “Jesuitical,” I don’t know what does:

Here’s the game summary.

H/T: Chait.

PS: And yes, Grant, I know it’s not Mark Buehrle’s flip a couple weeks ago. But it’s college, okay?

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  1. Bob Nunz 04/22/2010 - 12:47 pm

    Now if only Fordham basketball could accheive some prominence…

  2. Joseph Jaglowicz 04/22/2010 - 2:14 pm  subscriber

    When I saw TODAY broadcast this aerial maneuver, I heard myself say “Holy $**t!”.

    Lucky he didn’t break a limb — or his neck?!?!?

    God bless him!

  3. Grant Gallicho 04/22/2010 - 4:46 pm  contributor

    Forgiven, Dave. It is my alma mater, after all…

  4. Jean Raber 04/22/2010 - 5:06 pm  subscriber

    O Lord, the boys of summer are back.

    I call on the women at dotCom to start posting recipes, knitting patterns, housekeeping tips, and fashion notes for every baseball entry seen on this here blog.

    I’m sure everyone noticed the new fashion trend of wearing fishnet anklets with wedgies and maryjanes.

  5. Sean Hannaway 04/22/2010 - 5:26 pm

    Jean, you sound like my wife.

    Man, I love baseball! The perfect game.

  6. John Borst 04/22/2010 - 5:42 pm  subscriber

    Look/freeze at 22 seconds. I think the catcher did tag him. None-the-less a great video even as I stay with the game played on ice.

  7. Jean Raber 04/22/2010 - 6:21 pm  subscriber

    Sean, I’ll take that as a compliment, even though you may not have meant it that way.

    Man, I love getting rust stains out of the bathroom sink!!! Vinegar the perfect cleaner.

    So there, I’m done.

  8. Antonio Manetti 04/22/2010 - 6:23 pm  subscriber

    Talk about a leap of faith!

  9. Joe Pettit 04/22/2010 - 10:14 pm

    Jean Raber makes my day!

  10. william collier 04/23/2010 - 9:44 am  subscriber

    “Man, I love baseball! The perfect game.”

    I couldn’t agree more. Read anything by Roger Angell, Jean, and you’ll learn to live with those rust stains. :)

    “Is this heaven? No, it’s [dotCommonweal].”

  11. David Gibson 04/23/2010 - 9:55 am  subscriber  contributor

    Jean, Jean (Joe)…Some girls actually like baseball, you know. And they throw like boys!

  12. Bob Nunz 04/23/2010 - 10:18 am

    They showed this tape not once but three times on the local news in New Mexico last night.
    Not sure what that wil ldo for the Rams.

  13. gene palumbo 04/23/2010 - 11:43 am

    While I agree with Joe Pettit on Jean Raber, we’ve got to acknowledge that – as she has now come clean and admitted – she does have a tragic flaw: a failure to appreciate the glory that is baseball. But maybe we can get her to come around on this.

    For openers: Jean, Bill Collier mentioned Roger Angell. Here’s something by him that will lead you to a piece that may help to initiate your conversion:

    …[I]n late September, 1960, [John Updike] went to Fenway Park to see the Red Sox, in the final home game of Ted Williams’s career. Ted hit a home run in his last at-bat, and Updike came home and wrote “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” and sent it off to the magazine: the most celebrated baseball piece ever. The text grew not just out of the event but from Updike’s youthful attachment to the Splendid Splinter; when he decided to leave New York and The New Yorker, in 1957, and move his young family to the suburbs, he chose Boston, as he later explained, in part to be closer to Ted Williams. My own baseball writing was still two years away when I first read “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” and though it took me a while to become aware of it, John had already supplied my tone, while also seeming to invite me to try for a good sentence now and then, down the line, like the one he slips in when Williams fails to doff his cap after circling the bases in the wake of that homer: “Gods do not answer letters.”

    Check it out, Jean. Here’s the link for the Updike essay:
    http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1960/10/22/1960_10_22_109_TNY_CARDS_000266305

  14. Joseph Jaglowicz 04/23/2010 - 1:07 pm  subscriber

    A “leap of faith”.

    O, yeah :)

  15. Jean Raber 04/23/2010 - 4:25 pm  subscriber

    I got nothing againt baseball in its rightful place, which is on a transistor radio or a VERY small black and white analogue TV in a garage. Not on here.

    As for baseball AND Updike, together, I can scarcely imagine worse combination of evils. Unless it’s listening to John Madden doing loud hardware commercials.

    Now, I’ve got some ring around the collar to go deal with.

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