The Briny Ballers Achieve A Left-Columner [Purple Prose]

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The Briny Ballers Achieve A Left-Columner [Purple Prose]
Fish@Bat: Blogging the Florida Marlins found this 5/14/2008 on deadspin.com [flag]
Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose of early 1900s sportswriting, the Grantland Rices, the men who painted epic tales of warriors, grizzled combatants and lardywarks too manly to wear gloves. In an occasional series, Weintraub writes about the week's best baseball game in the style of the vaunted sportswriters of yesteryear. This week: Dan Uggla's two-homer ... [link]

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A Poetic Look at the Miami entrant in the Senior Circuit
Published 5/14/2008 by Fish@Bat at Fish@Bat: Blogging the Florida Marlins
Here is what Deadspin’s Purple Prose has to say about the Fish. For the record, here are some of the nicknames in the write up: The Marlins: Miami entrant in the Senior Circuit, Spearfish, Swinging Swimmers, Briny Ballers, Santiago’s Sluggers, Pelagics Marlins Fans: Ye Fans of the Fishes Marlins Bullpen: Sunshine State Pen Men Wayne Huizenga: Gaseous trashman Jeffrey Loria: Angry art dealer Dan Uggla: Owl, Swedish Surprise, Ugg-Boot Scott ...

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