What time is it? NATION TIME!
Sure sure, this wasn't supposed to be a baseball thing... but I've always liked Milton Bradley. He seems like an appropriately angry guy who doesn't take people being dicks. He over-reacted and consequently got injured, but I do not doubt that what the umpire said was out of line. Is it unbelievable that umpires are racist, or that Jeff Kent & Billy Beane are assholes? Kent's proved it again this year and all reports that Beane is a cult-of-me kind of guy who didn't even produce a winner this year (and puts boring, if productive, baseball teams on the field).
That is to say, Bradley calling bullshit means it's NATION TIME. (that what the umpire, ie the Man, said doesn't matter, but that he was asserting his Man-ness to Bradley's Object-ness calls for a reaction. In the clips, you definitely see the moment when Bradley, and the first base coach, hit pause and say WTF, that's fucked up.)
Appropriately (or not) I've been musing about writing something on Joe McPhee's Nation Time. At the junction of New Black Music and Black Power (although I'm never quite sure how deep the connection is between free jazz as the black avant garde goes. for most of the free jazz artists - pharaoh sanders, don cherry, art ensemble, albert ayler - the connection is explicit and clear. for others it's not so clear - see ornette coleman (this is Our music does not = this Black music. see Charlie Haden) and cecil taylor (and maybe athony braxton). if anything this may have to do with the various perceptions said artists were trying to convey less than about the actual music. Though Ayler and Sanders and others did try to make the explicit connection between Now Popular Black Music and the avant garde of Jazz. Bring the Mountain to the People.) Bundle Joe McPhee in with Ayler in that, at least in this session, this free jazz + funk. No it's not as funky as James Brown, the free jazz element makes it a little too cluttered to make the funk POP. (The tension-connection between new expression and clutter (and virtuosity), not a necessity, but commonly the case.) But the foundation is there. Maybe it's giving to much, rhythmic rigidity, to push the jazz beyond, but it does have power. And anger!
And why shouldn't Joe McPhee and company not be angry? Why shouldn't Milton Bradley not be angry? The world (and America) is still fucked up in a lot of ways. (At least this time the rabble-blog seems to be leaning against the Umpire) I do think Milton Bradley is a good baseball player and probably a good guy, he's not tied to any off-field anger issues/foibles compared to a lot of baseball players. The man just leaves it all on the field and doesn't take shit. Maybe he won't succeed as much as others with similar skills, but fuck it, at least he's righteous.
That is to say, Bradley calling bullshit means it's NATION TIME. (that what the umpire, ie the Man, said doesn't matter, but that he was asserting his Man-ness to Bradley's Object-ness calls for a reaction. In the clips, you definitely see the moment when Bradley, and the first base coach, hit pause and say WTF, that's fucked up.)
Appropriately (or not) I've been musing about writing something on Joe McPhee's Nation Time. At the junction of New Black Music and Black Power (although I'm never quite sure how deep the connection is between free jazz as the black avant garde goes. for most of the free jazz artists - pharaoh sanders, don cherry, art ensemble, albert ayler - the connection is explicit and clear. for others it's not so clear - see ornette coleman (this is Our music does not = this Black music. see Charlie Haden) and cecil taylor (and maybe athony braxton). if anything this may have to do with the various perceptions said artists were trying to convey less than about the actual music. Though Ayler and Sanders and others did try to make the explicit connection between Now Popular Black Music and the avant garde of Jazz. Bring the Mountain to the People.) Bundle Joe McPhee in with Ayler in that, at least in this session, this free jazz + funk. No it's not as funky as James Brown, the free jazz element makes it a little too cluttered to make the funk POP. (The tension-connection between new expression and clutter (and virtuosity), not a necessity, but commonly the case.) But the foundation is there. Maybe it's giving to much, rhythmic rigidity, to push the jazz beyond, but it does have power. And anger!
And why shouldn't Joe McPhee and company not be angry? Why shouldn't Milton Bradley not be angry? The world (and America) is still fucked up in a lot of ways. (At least this time the rabble-blog seems to be leaning against the Umpire) I do think Milton Bradley is a good baseball player and probably a good guy, he's not tied to any off-field anger issues/foibles compared to a lot of baseball players. The man just leaves it all on the field and doesn't take shit. Maybe he won't succeed as much as others with similar skills, but fuck it, at least he's righteous.
posted by furtanic at 3:56 PM
1 Comments:
the guy's gotta be careful about what he does with that bat after the AB. that seems to have started off the most recent incident, and after the last series in philly, something similar will have him booed there for the rest of time. then again, not surprising from one of the most racist fan bases in baseball. i can't think about the context right now though, alls i know is SD's postseason odds are dropping on baseball prospectus, while the phightin's are just up and up!
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