Comments | candle_beck: they play this song before every a's game, which makes me happy

candle_beck

they play this song before every a's game, which makes me happy

Aug 22, 2005 18:20

Well, those guidelines didn't last long. Okay, be fair. This was already mostly written two days ago. Or however long it's been.

Again, something vaguely wrong with this. I need to corral the stories I like the best and isolate a comman thread that makes them good. And I need to stop worrying about it so much.

Yep.

( wherein roommates are in turn repelled by and drawn to each other, interlopers become accepted into the everyday routine, punches are thrown, glass is broken, lies are told, peace is found but not recognized, and the drama builds. )

mlb fic, zito/chavez

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belle1446 August 23 2005, 05:02:50 UTC

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skinny like a base line

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"Considering where my hand just was, anything other than, 'where have you been all my life,' is a rude question."

Can't believe there's a part 2 to read now! It's like Christmas in August!

lastcatastrophe August 24 2005, 08:06:26 UTC

beck. you just don't know how happy i am to be reading this. you just really don't.

americanleaguer August 25 2005, 15:22:16 UTC

Chavez didn’t think he was serious, but Zito, it turned out, was serious almost all the time, or honest, anyway. Something like that.

Best description of Zito... that's how he is in real life, basically, distilled down into one sentence. He's so fucking, I dunno, sincere. About weird things. This is just such a good way of putting it.

He’d kill me, and then never talk to me again.

Hee. You go to Hell! You go to Hell and you die!

He kept picturing lights in his minds, filaments, fluorescents, naked bulbs swinging from the rafters.

Mmhmm. Just so.

That whole bit, where they meet up again at spring training after not seeing each other for most of the winter. I'd quote it, but it's just the whole section, really. Dunno why, but I love something in the interaction, the dialogue, and of course the way Zito tosses the phone off, defining moment, sure.

He couldn’t keep his promise, which anyone who could read the stitches the way he could really should seen coming. Cool, cool, because, hey, reading a pitch takes a kind of good ( ... )

ayrdaomei August 29 2005, 12:13:58 UTC

Wow. Where have you been all my life ( ... )

candle_beck September 2 2005, 07:09:37 UTC

thanks so much, man. what a nice kid. though, of course, anyone who roots for the orioles in that division is okay by me.

rickenbacker September 30 2005, 12:33:20 UTC

Before I fall all over myself in an attempt to get across how much this story knocked me out - I was gonna say that I found my way over here thanks to ayrdaomei.

Now that that's out of the way... Oh.My.God.

I was a sports-slash virgin until I read this, and now I can't read anyone else's work because I'm afraid it will never be this good again.

I can't even properly articulate how much I love your writing, and especially this story (maybe I'm biased because Mulder plays such a big part - I'm a Cardinals fan). I just want to eschew the rest of the world and live inside one of these things.

Do you have your stories archived anywhere except as LJ posts?

candle_beck October 1 2005, 04:50:12 UTC

hey man, thanks. congrats on your boys (and my former boy) tearing it up all year, too. it's gonna be a pretty good october.

and no, all my baseball stuff is here, and all the rest of it is in the memories too. i've been kinda prolific, so hopefully that will keep you occupied.