The Hammock Papers: Contender.

08 September 2011

Contender.

V Mart goes 4XL as the Tigers beat the Indians 8-6, sweeping the three-game series.

The Tigers have floored the accelerator the past two weeks, branding tire tracks on the backs of their closest divisional competitors.

But the irony of this surge is that it weakens the argument that Verlander should be the American League's most valuable player, while strengthening the argument that the Tigers should be a genuine World Series contender. They suddenly have a virulent offense and a contagious knack for making the right play at the right time. They have a nine-game lead on the second-place White Sox, 9 1/2 on the Indians.

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MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."

DAN CAMPBELL