Word: warms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Prejean's hour-plus speech was also peppered with numerous jokes delivered in her warm Louisiana drawl...
This guy, in short, was asking to be hated, and sports fans were more than happy to accommodate him. And so, with the visit of the Braves to Fenway last July, it occurred to me and a friend that there was no better way to spend a warm summer evening than to go see (boo, scoff, deride, etc.) John Rocker. The event, we hoped, would be memorable; but it was so much more than that...
...Fenway, we sat in the outfield with the Sox's ever obstreperous bleacher bums. After a couple innings of anticipation (and not a few visits by the Bud Man), when Rocker finally emerged from under the bleachers to warm up, you would have thought that this crew was going to storm the field and lynch him. There was enough cursing coming from the bleachers to make a sailor blush...
...most extraordinary moment, however, came late in the game. Down by a few runs, the Sox loaded the bases. Rocker had already come out again to warm up with a very good possibility that he might be called out to finish the inning. The fans in the bleachers knew this, and everyone seemed more concerned that Rocker might make his appearance than they were that the Sox had the chance to tie up the game...
...both hands, offering up melody and countermelody simultaneously, forcefully and thoughtfully. When he's playing, you can be sure he has a firm grasp of the song. On this album themes introduce themselves, wash away and then return, like waves against a beach. Los Angeles arrives first as a warm, flowing trio piece; later, on Los Angeles (Reprise), the musical ideas introduced in the first rendition are re-explored by the trio before Mehldau closes the track with a solo run as precise and cutting as heart surgery...