Appropriately lost in the wash of reportage springing from the passage of Fr. Ted is the fact that Notre Dame baseball is off to its best start since 2004. At 10-1 with a bullet, Coach Mik Aoki's Irish are three more wins from besting 2004's 12-1 start. If the weekend series' performance in the Mercer Baseball Classic is any indication, this may be the club to do it. Good teams find a way to win games and better teams win games, and tournaments, on walk-off wild-pitches. That is what the ...
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We’re Talkin’ (Irish) Baseball
At a time when personalized technologies like the iPhone and Hulu have eroded the natural ebb and flow of time and season, sport provides most of the few remaining way-points on the calendar. With our smart phones and tablets, we can time-shift “must see t.v.” to fit our individual schedules, rendering the start time of a particular game less meaningful than ever before. The release of the House of Cards remake on Netflix this month is perhaps the first step in the permanent decoupling of serial ...