Michael Holloway's Baseball Blogs

Writing around the idea that baseball is a game slightly ahead of its time. A 'simple' game the qualities of which include physical and metaphysical paradoxes: the two dimensional diamond with-in the sphere; the struggle between individuals with-in a complex group dynamic.
Baseball is like a school of the Socratic method: it asks questions - the consideration of which lead to more questions - a process that illuminates a path towards critical thought.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Well Played Mauer...

Every time I see this ad while watching baseball on broadcast TV I see more and more levels in the script. Social networking understood at a deep level. I like how the father figure, or corporate face of Play Station, Kevin Butler puts up the 007 wall after he's caught out not being social enough to remember he knows Joe Mauer... well?