Dude, CB, baby, you rock my socks. I was making icons tonight and I made this without text, and then saw you had posted a wee baby fic in the flavor I like best, and decided to customize it for you. :D You don't have to use it, but I hope you like it anyways.
Dear please god do not let this be Billy Beane/Barry Zito slash, I kept muttering to myself as I read, please no no no no. And it wasn't but goddamn it came dangerously close, and I think I have a new squick now.
I haven't even read the second story now. I don't know if I have the strength. -- coco
squicking out a kid is my goal for lifecandle_beckJuly 23 2004, 16:28:48 UTC
ahahahahaha!
dude, don't be talking to me about cashman and epstein and then shy away from the beane.
although, i can't say shit, the reason it's not actually slash was cos of the corner of my mind that was screeching 'you will NOT have them start making out! it will NOT happen!'
And now there are millions of people whose image of Billy Beane is Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt glowing because he's finally getting to shoot his pet project and it's going great and it's going to be a hit. (I've never seen a bad review for Moneyball.)
Some of those millions are going to be slash fans, and they're going to be just fine about Beane/Zito (in the visual sense, at least. Power issues aside.)
ha! nothing has pleased me more this year than the ascendancy of moneyball. i have been pushing that book on people for year, anyone who could not be swayed to a's fandom by me saying "lookit all the hot boys!" i would insist that they read moneyball and every damn one of them came out of it an a's fan, and now the movie's about to win oscars and be a classic and i couldn't be happier with how it's all worked out.
and man, if they had only cast barry zito as himself (which they totally could have, he had no lines and was just hanging around in the background), we mighta had fictional zeane in addition to rps zeane, and it woulda gotten super convoluted and probably pretty awesome.
Oh. My. God. That is the weirdest coincidence I've ever seen. See, I haven't been on LJ lately, but last night when they showed Billy Beane on SportsCenter, I thought, "You know, he's not THAT bad looking, he's really not." And I kept thinking that hmm, you know, he might kinda look good with Barry, not, like, in a serious way, but in a just to see what happens way.
And then I read yours and I'm like, "Holy fuck," because that's pretty much what had been going through my mind. And it was really good, just enough, absolutely perfect. And the second one...oh, man. That one was probably one of the best ones I've ever read of yours, no shit. I just liked the concept and I think that, seriously, you should do another one because Barry still hasn't quite gotten his groove back. ;)
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Dear please god do not let this be Billy Beane/Barry Zito slash, I kept muttering to myself as I read, please no no no no. And it wasn't but goddamn it came dangerously close, and I think I have a new squick now.
I haven't even read the second story now. I don't know if I have the strength. -- coco
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dude, don't be talking to me about cashman and epstein and then shy away from the beane.
although, i can't say shit, the reason it's not actually slash was cos of the corner of my mind that was screeching 'you will NOT have them start making out! it will NOT happen!'
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Some of those millions are going to be slash fans, and they're going to be just fine about Beane/Zito (in the visual sense, at least. Power issues aside.)
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and man, if they had only cast barry zito as himself (which they totally could have, he had no lines and was just hanging around in the background), we mighta had fictional zeane in addition to rps zeane, and it woulda gotten super convoluted and probably pretty awesome.
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And then I read yours and I'm like, "Holy fuck," because that's pretty much what had been going through my mind. And it was really good, just enough, absolutely perfect. And the second one...oh, man. That one was probably one of the best ones I've ever read of yours, no shit. I just liked the concept and I think that, seriously, you should do another one because Barry still hasn't quite gotten his groove back. ;)
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