Category: Doing

  • My Evolving Blogging Identity Crisis

    Here we go again. No soon­er do I announce Amor­tiz­ing Ryan Howard then I change the name (and buy the URL) for High Lever­age Inning. (Hey, it’s live!) This isn’t the first time this has hap­pened and it prob­a­bly won’t be the last. Through­out my blog­gy tenure I’ve strug­gled with titles and plat­forms and chan­nels…

  • Introducing Amortizing Ryan Howard

    Because the world need­ed anoth­er base­ball blog. You can find it here, where I will be Tum­bling about all man­ner base­ball stuff, whether it’s Phillies or not. (And, yes, this is my umpteenth stab at Tum­blr. This could stick only because I real­ly like read­ing and writ­ing and think­ing about base­ball.) If you can rec­om­mend…

  • In Praise of the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies

    Nev­er in my life did I believe that the Phillies would be the sort of dom­i­nant team fans link to the Yan­kees and Red Sox. The sort of team that “buys” cham­pi­onships. The sort of team that play­ers want to join, even if it means tak­ing a pay cut to do it. The kind of…

  • Visiting Engine 29

    Yes­ter­day’s vis­it to the fire­house at 4th and Girard rekin­dled Char­lie’s love of fire­fight­ing. He climbed on all the trucks, played with every­thing he was allowed to touch and he even sprayed me with a firehose.  Don’t believe it? Here’s proof: Spe­cial thanks to Hip­ster Hen­ry for orga­niz­ing the out­ing. Was a great way for…

  • Time to Start Running Again

    Broke this bad boy out. Now that Char­lie’s sleep­ing past 6 am, I owe it to myself to start run­ning again. I hope to vol­un­teer with Stu­dents Run Philly Style start­ing in January. Keep your fin­gers crossed for a mild win­ter, okay?