{"id":812,"date":"2009-12-15T01:02:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=812"},"modified":"2009-12-15T01:02:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T06:02:18","slug":"life-just-keeps-on-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/812","title":{"rendered":"Life Just Keeps on Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy cow.  The Mariners, apparently not satisfied with filling step one of my philosophy on baseball (stock your team with speedsters like <a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/785\">Chone Figgins<\/a>), are apparently a little bit of paperwork away from filling step two, which is to stock your team with top-notch starting pitching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/news;_ylt=ArqNNcwA58yaCuWPKPv_weQRvLYF?slug=jp-halladaytrade121409&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\">Cliff Lee is about to be a Mariner<\/a>.  CLIFF LEE!<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been this excited since the Erik Bedard trade, the last time the M&#8217;s landed an ace-level pitcher.  Except this time, the trade isn&#8217;t going to cripple our team, mostly because our current GM isn&#8217;t named Bavasi.  Also, Cliff Lee is a proven multi-year talent, while Bedard had had just one great season as the basis of his success.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, did you <em>see<\/em> Cliff Lee pitch in the postseason?  Holy cow.  I&#8217;m so glad we&#8217;re going to still be in the States for (at least most of) the 2010 baseball season.<\/p>\n<p>In other news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emily prompted me to look up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainbow_Brite\">Rainbow Brite<\/a> on Wikipedia tonight, after she jokingly embraced my sarcastic suggestion that we name a child, should we ever have one, Rainbow Bright Clayton.  This led me to discover that the cartoon character of &#8217;80&#8217;s lore starred in a whopping 13 (thirteen) broadcast episodes, almost exclusively in 1986, yet somehow grossed $1 billion (with a <b>b<\/b>) in 1980&#8217;s dollars from merchandising.  Or $77 million an episode.  And you think baseball players get paid a lot.<\/li>\n<li>I have edited 19% of <i>American Dream On<\/i>&#8216;s chapters and 14% of its pages in the last three days, working on a sporadic schedule.  It&#8217;s exhausting.  Completely wiping me out.  I was in no way prepared for the sheer physicality required of intensely editing a book this size.  At the same time, it&#8217;s been going far better than any major editing project I&#8217;ve ever undertaken, something I can credit in part to countless hours of editing grant proposals and other paperwork for Glide in my last day job.  The amount of work I&#8217;m putting in, the amount of change manifest, and the amount of satisfaction I&#8217;m getting from the newly emerging draft are all great indicators that I&#8217;ve shed my reputation as someone who has trouble with editing.  Unfortunately, getting to 100% is a must before anyone sees the thing, so we may be looking closer to New Year&#8217;s than Christmas for distribution to first-run readers.  My interest in getting feedback is keeping me motivated.<\/li>\n<li>Plus, I can edit in the Chancellor Green Library.  So there&#8217;s that.  Pretty much anything is worth doing in there, no matter how much energy it takes.<\/li>\n<li>Spent Saturday in New York City, taking the train all the way from Princeton&#8217;s &#8220;Dinky&#8221; station to downtown Manhattan and (almost all the way) back to see former &#8216;Deisians for a day of games.  Managed to tie for a win in Citadels and run a distant third in Railway Rivals, a stellar railroad game that was West Germany&#8217;s 1984 Game of the Year.  Hm.  I guess you <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Railway_Rivals\">don&#8217;t have to take my word for it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cliff Lee!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy cow. The Mariners, apparently not satisfied with filling step one of my philosophy on baseball (stock your team with speedsters like Chone Figgins), are apparently a little bit of paperwork away from filling step two, which is to stock your team with top-notch starting pitching. Cliff Lee is about to be a Mariner. 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