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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Probably the best thing Dodd has written all year. I miss Andy, who spoiled us.
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He needs stronger editing. He overwrites, especially his ledes. And in today's story, he called the baseball "the white orb," which unless done ironically is horribly cliched. It was parodied years ago in examples of how much baseball writing is overwrought and romanticized: "The white orb described an arc into the azure sky high above the verdant outfield, mocking the barriers erected by mortals before settling into its final resting place like Odysseus returning to Ithaca."
He's young, he can get better. Andy had a better grasp of how far the poetry can go.