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Bruce Springsteen Opens the US Tour With A Van Halen Cover

Kevin Buell, Springsteen’s guitar tech, comes out dressed as a referee and holds up a basketball for a tip off between Bruce and Nils.(The latter wins despite being shorter, because although Bruce is undeniably in better shape, Nils is the better athlete.) But instead of “Badlands” or “We Take Care Of Our Own,” what do we hear instead?

“Jump.” By Van Halen.

Yeah, that just happened.

I blame Morello, but not in a serious ‘blame’ way, but it is likely given that he was the one who asked if there...

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Published on April 06, 2014 21:22

New Baseball Book!

The best of my six years of baseball writing are included in my new ebook: One Girl, One Team, One City: The Best of metsgrrl.com.

It was a ton of fun to go back through what now amounts to hundreds of posts and pick out the best ones, relive the ups and the downs, and just generally marvel at the fact that I wrote about baseball for six years.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Published on March 30, 2014 12:54

Springsteen – 10 of the Best, Part 2

I very much enjoyed the chance to contribute to the Guardian’s ongoing “10 of the Best” series on the subject of Mr. Bruce Springsteen. I thought it would be interesting to talk about the songs that didn’t make the cut and why (and more on some that did).

The parameters of the assignment were very specifically to go for deep cuts, no hit singles, nothing with ‘born’ in the title, and to not try to be definitive, but rather be personal. The tracks also had to be available on UK Spotify, which m...

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Published on March 19, 2014 22:26

Springsteen – 10 of the Best

The Guardian in the UK asked me to contribute to their ongoing series – deep cuts only AND they had to be available on UK Spotify. Trust me when I say that picking the songs was harder than writing the actual piece, and there were some restless nights (ahem) over what I had to cut out.

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Published on March 19, 2014 06:01

Largehearted Boy Book Notes

I was honored to be asked to contribute to the Book Notes series yet again: http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/a...

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Published on March 10, 2014 17:41

Springsteen Covering “Royals” by Lorde

“I drive a Cadillac in my dreams” isn’t that far out of the man’s oeuvre, now, is it? Or songs about poor kids breaking out of their small town existence?

This cover is blowing my mind. All week we’ve been debating Crowded House and Split Enz (and this could happen now that Neil Finn is going to tonight’s show) but we also walked around saying, “There’s no way he’d do a ‘Royals’ cover” and yet, here it is.

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Published on March 01, 2014 08:31

“You Sure Know A Lot About Baseball For A Girl,” March 12

Talk baseball with Caryn Rose, author of Raise Your Hand and B-Sides and Broken Hearts, as she celebrates the publication of her new book A Whole New Ballgame. She’ll be joined by Joan Walsh (Splash Hit, Salon.com), Taryn Cooper (of Gal for All Seasons), and Diane Firstman (Value Over Replacement Grit), with Kimberly Austin of Rock Book Show moderating.

Facebook RSVP encouraged, but not required.

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Published on March 01, 2014 08:16

My latest novel: A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME

You may have seen the new widget in the sidebar, but I’ve been so busy promoting the book elsewhere that I completely forgot about actually talking about it here.

Some of you know that I started writing about baseball back in 2006. I started the blog on Blogger, for heaven’s sake, because it was something I was doing so that I didn’t have to send out mass emails to people. I didn’t know that I’d love doing it and I didn’t know that I’d build an audience. I didn’t know that I’d do it pretty muc...

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Published on February 08, 2014 09:08