Thursday, April 15, 2010

MR. PENNINGTON TO MR. LILLIBRIDGE TO MR. WHITESELL, RUTHLESSLY PRICKING OUR GONFALON BUBBLE: Lookout Landing announces this year's Major League Baseball All-Jane Austen team.

7 comments:

  1. calliekl9:23 PM

    Oooo I've been wanting to mention that I found these awesome shirts online- literary baseball shirts! I want the Hester Prynne one.

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  2. Ryan Benjamin Rowland-Smith not making the rotation is a tragedy.

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  3. Genevieve10:54 AM

    There are no Ryans in Austen (as a first name, anyway).  Though the rest of his name is perfect.

    I originally thought the list was going to be Austen heroes and heroines as a roster, which would be awesome.  Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey) enthusiastically played "base ball" as a child.

    Trying, and failing, to picture Papelbon in any Austen book. 

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  4. I've never seen Micah in a Jane Austen book.  But Thomas James Everidge?  Solid.

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  5. Neato Torpedo2:21 PM

    The Nationals have 2 of the starters.  Is it any wonder they've lead the league in losses 2 seasons in a row?

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  6. Genevieve3:52 PM

    Justin, Chad, Blake, Kyle and Hayden are also unlikely Austenian first names.

    But Robert Nicholas Blackburn and Adam Parrish Wainwright are perfect.  They can be the next suitors for Kitty and Mary Bennet.

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  7. Genevieve4:25 AM

    Catherine Morland (now Mrs. Henry Tilney) picked the Phillies to win two years ago:  http://mcsullivan.vox.com/library/post/mrs-tilney-was-most-prescient.html

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