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The Problematic Ego Behind “Let’s go!”

The phrase has become endemic in sports and lacks a certain authenticity because of it.

Jun 12, 2023

The Problematic Ego Behind “Let’s go!”

Jun 12, 2023

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Just throw the ball already…

Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock could threaten one of the greatest showdowns in sports: pitcher vs. hitter

Feb 19, 2023

Just throw the ball already…

Feb 19, 2023

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1941

April 15, 1941 — September 28, 1941: Boston Red Sox left fielder, Ted Williams, recorded a .406 batting average over 146 baseball games…

Feb 5, 2023

1941

Feb 5, 2023

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Ban This!

Starting in 2023, Major League Baseball is instituting a ban on the “extreme shift,” a defensive alignment that positions three infielders…

Dec 25, 2022

Ban This!

Dec 25, 2022

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Every Time I Play the Piano a Bird Dies

Mother sharpens her heels. She is going out. Father has his hammer and is hanging a painting. He takes the hammer to the wall, swinging its…

Nov 2, 2022

Every Time I Play the Piano a Bird Dies

Nov 2, 2022

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At Old Seal’s Stadium

Old Seals Stadium is a shopping center now. It is a parking lot, a grocery store, a 24 Hour Fitness, a Ross Dress for Less, a Japanese…

Nov 2, 2022

At Old Seal’s Stadium

Nov 2, 2022

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I Met Ted Williams When I Was a Kid

The event has become a bit of a mystery to me, something that occasionally spins me out on deep, existential ruminations of memory and time…

Nov 2, 2022

I Met Ted Williams When I Was a Kid

Nov 2, 2022

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Meeting Knausgaard : My Struggle to and at and briefly after The Norweigian-American Literary Arts…

Originally published by the Manchester By the Book Journal

Jan 3, 2017

Jan 3, 2017

Steven Kennedy

Mary Oliver Poetry Night

Originally published by the Manchester By the Book Journal

Jan 3, 2017

Jan 3, 2017

Steven Kennedy

The Traditional Kerouac Pub Crawl

Op-Ed

Jan 16, 2015

Jan 16, 2015

Steven Kennedy

Steven Kennedy

Sportswriter for SB Nation’s McCovey Chronicles. Author of novels Birds of Massachusetts (2020) & Between Sounds (2023). Editor of Fielder's Choice Magazine

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