I have been following your blog since you joined the A’s organization. A baseball player who reads and likes poetry, I am impressed. I hope your spring is going well. I will be at A’s spring training for 6 days starting on the 17th. I’ll look for you. I’d like to meet you.

Check out my blog with an A’s flavor at http://contractyear.mlblogs.com.

I don’t just “report” on the A’s. I write in-depth articles on anything in baseball that piques my interest, including the minor leagues, and even indy ball. Check it out. (You’ll see from my picture that I was not hitting on you when I said I’d like to meet you. I’m old enough to be your grandmother!) Maybe I can do an article on you and your fellow pitchers on my blog.

Hope to see you in Phoenix.

Bee Hylinski
Author: “Contract Year, A Baseball Novel,” about one pitcher’s journey from clueless to hero, to be published soon.

Bee Hylinski
Author: “Contract Year, A Baseball Novel.” to be published soon

I really enjoyed reading your post above. You sound like a pretty intellectual guy, which explains why you’re a pitcher. I am an avid A’s fan and welcome you to the A’s organization. I know that http://www.m5ind@gmail.com misses the opportunity to see you pitch in a Tribe uni, but his loss is obviosly our gain. I’ll check our your AFL article.

I write an A’s blog (really a baseball blog with emphasis on the A’s) at http://www.contractyear.mlblogs.com. Check it out. Maybe I’ll track you down at Spring Training next year. I’d love to interview you for my blog. Let me know what you think (beebee723@comcast.net).

Good luck in the playoffs. I’ll follow you and the Hounds and wish you all the best of luck.

Bee

I applaud your blog. I cheer your devotion to your baseball career. And I am delighted to find an athlete who not only writes with eloquence but also revels in poetry. Truly, as I lack the talent for baseball, I wish I had the skill and discipline you exhibit with word craft and taste in verse. I read back a bit. If you enjoyed On the Road, I suggest you give Kerouac’s Desolation Angels a go. Old Jack was a hardball fan (but not a good poet, in my opinion). I also enjoyed your selection of Sailing to Byzantium (hearkens back to my final year in the Creative Writing major) and Baudelaire ( a truer poem I’ve yet to find, even if I cannot find myself drunk with anything other than nihlism). But the greatest treasure is your willingness to share your experiences on and off the field and in literature.
I hope you don’t mind but I linked your page to my pages blogroll. I used to try to keep a blog about literature and baseball but few read it and I couldn’t keep up with samples of exclusive baseball verse, so it’s more of a Marlins fan site now. Cheers to you!