World Baseball Classic Discussion Thread

[World Baseball Classic]

And the results of our presidential vote are in!

1. Drawkland: 4
2. Cassadaigua: 2
3. Zwangzug: 0

Therefore, congratulations to Drawkland as our new president!

[Zwangzug]

Yaaaay congrats prez, thank you all for supporting my bid for another three cycles of doing nothing, is much appreciated.

Now I have an important question.

I understand the answers to this question are probably going to be, in some order, "No" and "Zwang, are you having too many emotions about fictional characters again, really?" BUT I also know that if there is any place on the internet where the answer might be "yes," NS Sport is very likely, just because of the confluence of nerd types. So. Has anybody read "The Celebrant" by Eric Rolfe Greenberg and/or "Ninety-Three" by Victor Hugo and/or is willing to put up with me screaming about historical fiction?

(This is not necessarily a recommendation, if you haven't, they're both niche for a reason. But I am having feelings and may need to vent at some time.)

[Quintessence of Dust]

draWk

So. Has anybody read "The Celebrant" by Eric Rolfe Greenberg and/or "Ninety-Three" by Victor Hugo and/or is willing to put up with me screaming about historical fiction?

I've read Ninety-Three, great book, may have missed the part about baseball though... :eyebrow:

[Zwangzug]

draWk

So. Has anybody read "The Celebrant" by Eric Rolfe Greenberg and/or "Ninety-Three" by Victor Hugo and/or is willing to put up with me screaming about historical fiction?

I've read Ninety-Three, great book, may have missed the part about baseball though...

Hahaha yeah it's not direct. But the idea of--pretty much everyone who picks up a novel about the French Revolution has enough historical knowledge to know how it's going to go, there isn't a lot of narrative drama coming from "will the republic triumph or will the dastardly monarchists prevail." So instead Hugo creates drama on a much smaller scale being like "what's going to happen to these kids." And it's effective!

And then the end...I think it sticks the landing, even though it's very bleak. So I guess I'm trying to put into words "what do I like about the way it resolved/got closure" so I can compare or contrast to figure out if other books (like The Celebrant) do or don't do the same thing as well.

(If Victor Hugo had written about the canceled World Series it would have been Quatrevingt-Quatorze. Okay I'll see myself out.)