#(because baseball)

[brendaonao3]

Favorite fic of yours: Going Yard. I love a fic that just shows how much the author absolutely adores a subject and can make you feel that for a moment. I'm not a baseball fan myself, but whenever I read Going Yard, I am one, because the affection for the sport just absolutely pours out of ever paragraph. Probably time to go back for a reread sometime soon?

THANK YOU!!!

Look, I’m not gonna lie - I truly did not expect ANYONE AT ALL to read, let alone like, Going Yard. It’s a Baseball AU that gets super duper nerdy about baseball and is more about this ridiculously weird team and them chasing down a pennant than an actual love story (mostly because Steve and Bucky are stupidly stubborn and don’t know how to communicate like adults throughout, what 95% of it? I might be being generous there. :D)

So to know that people really seemed to dig it and that it’s got this cult status is everything - especially for people like yourself who aren’t baseball fans! That is, no lie, the biggest compliment I could have ever hoped to get about this fic. So thank you again! <333

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[bourbon-and-bitters]

Pizza and baseball.

An even better combination, as it turns out, than baseball and the risotto I made last week. (Although, risotto eventually lead to arancini, which is always points in its favor.) Because I’m in California, so the games start eaaaaaaarly, Risotto goes something like this: stir, stir, stir, run into the living to see the play, stir, stir, call out for the score, stir, stir... Whereas pizza is jointly prepared and can be a tag team affair, allowing both cooks to spend some time watching the first innings of the game. Topping prep *tag*, dough prep *tag*, put the pizzas together *tag*, bake them. And whoever is in the living room must shout the game play by play (and I mean pitch by pitch) loudly towards the kitchen. As always, extra style points are awarded as appropriate for providing color commentary. 

[bourbon-and-bitters]

Tacos and Manhattans, followed by a vanilla malt at the drive thru. Because Mom always said that when I am an adult I can have anything I want for dinner. *Snerk* and it's baseball season. Also, who decided that we have to choose between taco Tuesday and whiskey Wednesday? How are there rules?

[brendaonao3]

razorbelle replied to your post: I'm going to die. This game is going to kill me.

Literally everyone is in the glass case of emotion now.

YES WE ARE!!!

[brendaonao3]

raernundo replied to your post:So erm... I kinda have a bit of a dilemma. Well 2...

these tags are everything, no baseball is definitely a deal-breaker.

RIGHT!?!?!?! There’s a lot I’m pretty sanguine about, but if you’re a guy looking to go out with me? You best come correct when it comes to loving the glorious game of baseball or no dice.

[brendaonao3]

spazzykiller replied to your post:I would LOVE to talk to you about Mookie Betts...

Omg I wanted the cycle so bad but the triple was ok by me �� And that catch was beautiful. My favorite ever Brock Holy catch will always be one of his first as an outfielder though, when he laid out behind Gomes.

Yeah, he’s fun to watch.  As much as I’m gonna miss Big Papi after the season’s over, between Xander and Mookie and Brock, I like the future of the team (provided Uehura and Kimbrel straighten out their pitching issues - I swear, Kimbrel did NOT have this problem when he was with the Braves.  He was automatic lights out for us.)