DSJ to 7 Day IL; Santander Up

[wildcard]

Wilkerson hits righties well.  Santander is doing well vs lefties at AAA this season.  May be a platoon in left until Smith returns.

[LA2]

3 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

Thanks, sorry, I thought he had banged his shoulder and I saw the reports that they were xraying his shoulder.

Smith, Jr. is actually an octopus, and thus has a brain in each of his shoulders. It explains his non-linear routes to propelled orbs and tentacular approach to gloving them.

[mdbdotcom]

22 minutes ago, LA2 said:

Smith, Jr. is actually an octopus, and thus has a brain in each of his shoulders. It explains his non-linear routes to propelled orbs and tentacular approach to gloving them.

Not to mention the eight shoulders.

[LA2]

1 hour ago, mdbdotcom said:

Not to mention the eight shoulders.

Haha, I considered it, but didn't want to go that far. There's no "objective correlative" (T.S. Eliot's term, i.e. no concrete basis for the metaphor, like Smith having eight gloves or eight positions he can play). I'm conservative that way, the way Eliot was, and has been vilified for (Villarized as erratic?) during the past few decades of poetics debate.

By the way, for literature fans out there, it's interesting that that type of supposedly anti-canonical/-imperialist prejudice has been thoroughly absorbed in universities here in Seoul. Even those who take a course on Shakespeare tell it to me with a glum and apologetic look on their faces, like "Oh, well, I've just got to study it because it's an important part of English literature." Certain English departments are cutting way back on coverage of literature, emphasizing instead business and tech English, sometimes adding instead more courses on movies and TV shows. Forgetting, I suppose, that probably the greatest directors of the two national cultures that have had the strongest post-19th-century influence on Korea (Japan, USA) were constantly inspired by great literature (Welles, Kurosawa).

Of course, the slow death of literature is a global phenomena. My department at a top-40 US university (I resigned in 2012) didn't even have a Shakespeare specialist after its previous one left a decade before.

[Philip]

I’m not complaining in the least, but I do feel a little bit sad for Joey. His time has come and gone.

I will always remember the game against the Blue Jays, where his base hit actually went through the third baseman’s glove. That’s how much good fortune he had for those several weeks.

[Philip]

8 minutes ago, LA2 said:

Haha, I considered it, but didn't want to go that far. There's no "objective correlative" (T.S. Eliot's term, i.e. no concrete basis for the metaphor, like Smith having eight limbs or eight gloves or six extra arms growing out of his back and abdomen). I'm conservative that way, the way Eliot was and has been vilified (Villarized as erratic?) during the past few decades of poetics debate.

By the way, for literature fans out there, it's interesting that that type of supposedly anti-canonical/-imperialist prejudice has been thoroughly absorbed here in universities here in Seoul. Even those who take a course on Shakespeare tell it to me with a glum and apologetic look on their faces, like "Oh, well, I've just got to study it because it's part of English literature." Certain English departments are cutting way back on coverage of literature, emphasizing instead business and tech English, sometimes adding instead more courses on movies and TV shows. Forgetting, I suppose, that probably the greatest directors of the two national cultures that have the strongest influence on Korea (Japan, USA) were constantly inspired by great literature (Welles, Kurosawa).

Of course, the slow death of literature is a global phenomena. My department at a top-40 US university (I resigned in 2012) didn't even have a Shakespeare specialist after its previous one left a decade before.

It’s very sad. One of the greatest college professors I ever had was a man who could “not just Shakespeare, but any English author, by the mile. I loved Kipling as a child and memorized many of his poems, But this guy turned me onto obscurities like Southey, And he adored opera and could quote librettos start to finish.

You have probably never heard of Paul Crume, Who wrote for decades for the Dallas morning news before dying in 1975, but he was a brilliant writer and an even better thinker, and one of his posts was a lamentation about his high school Latin teacher.

He said he had loved her because she had taught that knowledge was only the beginning of wisdom, and even in the 1960s he was mourning the fact that that was no longer true.

he wrote many such thoughts, all powerful and all poignant.

Another powerful one was the fact that our culture is dying. We no longer value the good things That made our civilization great, and we no longer understand the bad things. We’re trading the greatness of the past for the Kardashian sisters, and we are losing.

If you have time to read, the book is called, “A Texan at Bay” And although there is a bit of fluff in it, it is well worth reading multiple times.

[Philip]

3 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

Maybe Elias wants to gauge what he has in the system.

Rickard is a known product.

Wilkerson is just depth at AAA, and probably will be heading back down soon.

You don’t think Wilkerson Is doing well enough to stay?

[Philip]

2 hours ago, jrobb21613 said:

Personally I would of preferred with his versatility able to play both infield and outfield that they called up Jace Peterson. 

His defense is terrible. At least it was last year. I mean like Tim Beckham bad

[waroriole]

4 hours ago, Matt Bennett said:

Surprised it’s not Rickard. Rickard and Wilkerson would seem to make a nice platoon. Santander has decent but uninspiring AAA numbers and it seems like you would want a temporary call up like this to go to a non-prospect. 

Santander isn’t a prospect 

[wildcard]

21 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Santander isn’t a prospect 

I am not writing Santander off just yet.  He is 24.

[Tx Oriole]

33 minutes ago, Cy Bundy said:

Some people here are memory deficient, please show some humility & perhaps a bit of empathy for your fellow O’s fans. The arrogance is unbecoming, evidently Everyone is the best at Something on the internet. 

My memory is deficient too. 

[BohKnowsBmore]

7 hours ago, Philip said:

 

Another powerful one was the fact that our culture is dying. We no longer value the good things That made our civilization great, and we no longer understand the bad things. We’re trading the greatness of the past for the Kardashian sisters, and we are losing

On this point, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most prescient books I have ever read, particularly the passage culminating with the following quote (context is the wife wanting to escape to the company of her screen “family”):

”We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

[Darkhawk]

8 hours ago, LA2 said:

Haha, I considered it, but didn't want to go that far. There's no "objective correlative" (T.S. Eliot's term, i.e. no concrete basis for the metaphor, like Smith having eight gloves or eight positions he can play). I'm conservative that way, the way Eliot was, and has been vilified for (Villarized as erratic?) during the past few decades of poetics debate.

By the way, for literature fans out there, it's interesting that that type of supposedly anti-canonical/-imperialist prejudice has been thoroughly absorbed in universities here in Seoul. Even those who take a course on Shakespeare tell it to me with a glum and apologetic look on their faces, like "Oh, well, I've just got to study it because it's an important part of English literature." Certain English departments are cutting way back on coverage of literature, emphasizing instead business and tech English, sometimes adding instead more courses on movies and TV shows. Forgetting, I suppose, that probably the greatest directors of the two national cultures that have had the strongest post-19th-century influence on Korea (Japan, USA) were constantly inspired by great literature (Welles, Kurosawa).

Of course, the slow death of literature is a global phenomena. My department at a top-40 US university (I resigned in 2012) didn't even have a Shakespeare specialist after its previous one left a decade before.

Would be interested to hear more about your thoughts on this, if you were willing. 

[Redskins Rick]

On 6/7/2019 at 6:12 PM, Philip said:

You don’t think Wilkerson Is doing well enough to stay?

Wasnt he just sent down to the minors, and the only reason he is back, is due to an injury.

Has nothing to do with my opinion if he is playing well enough, I am just gauging how the org is handling him.

[Philip]

3 minutes ago, Redskins Rick said:

Wasnt he just sent down to the minors, and the only reason he is back, is due to an injury.

Has nothing to do with my opinion if he is playing well enough, I am just gauging how the org is handling him.

Fair enough. That’s valid. What they ARE doing with him-or anyone else- as opposed to what we think they SHOULD do with him.

I personally think he’s a pretty versatile guy, and his D seems to be pretty good.