{"id":2652,"date":"2007-10-28T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/28\/and-now-a-moment-of-randomness\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T19:10:48","slug":"and-now-a-moment-of-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/28\/and-now-a-moment-of-randomness\/","title":{"rendered":"… and now, a moment of randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"
This connection is admittedly one that recognizes how punk rock has\r\n transmitted at least some of its artifacts into mainstream culture in\r\n general. However, this is also an example of how certain aspects of\r\n baseball, at least what is considered the authentic or \"pure\" nature of\r\n baseball, can be captured, or recreated, if recognized. Just as queer theory\r\n sometimes devotes its time to finding elements of queerness in cultural\r\n artifacts, so too do punk fans attempt to find punk rock in culture.\r\n This is nothing new, but the connection between punk rock and sports\r\n zines is not simply one of spotting the punk in baseball. Although\r\n certainly there are elements of this. ChinMusic also had an article and\r\n interview that dealt with the case of Jim Walender of the Detroit Tigers<\/span>. In\r\n an article from Issue #2 of ChinMusic titled \"How publicly admitting\r\n you like the Dead Milkmen<\/span> can destroy your professional baseball career!\r\n An Interview With Ex-Detroit Tigers infielder Jim Walewander by Jeff\r\n Fox\" Fox noted that:\r\n\r\nIn 1987, he was brought up from the Mud Hens to play in the majors for\r\n the Detroit TIgers<\/span>. Oddly, soon after his arrival in Detroit<\/span>,\r\n Walewander became infamous for (of all things) being a Dead Milkmen<\/span> fan. This\r\n fact is even noted on his major league rookie card, which reads,\r\n \"[Walewander] became an instant legend in Detroit<\/span> for his devotion to an\r\n obscure punk-rock band called The Dead Milkmen<\/span>.\" On the Detroit<\/span> stop of the\r\n Milkmen's tour that year, Jim came out to see their show in Detroit<\/span> and\r\n then invited the band to Tiger stadium for an early game the next day\r\n against the Angels. Walewander's unlikely association with the Milkmen\r\n became cemented when he hit his first major league homer against the\r\n Angels that day, fueling speculation that it may have been the Milkmen's\r\n presence at the park that had inspired him to hit the two-run, upper\r\n deck blast.\r\n\r\nAccording to Fox, Walewander was somewhat embarrassed by the attention\r\n paid to him as a punk rock fan, even his baseball card mentioned his\r\n love of the Dead Milkmen<\/span>, but most baseball players come from small rural\r\n communities and few are veterans of the punk rock community. There are\r\n notable exceptions. Both the Chanel article in Ztsk and an interview\r\n in ChinMusic dealt with St. Louis Cardinals<\/span>' reliever Scott Radinsky,\r\n who first played in seminal punk band Scared Straight and later formed\r\n the successful Epitaph band Pulley. This does not imply a direct\r\n connection between punk rock and baseball, only a desire on the part of the\r\n producers of the sports zines to try and connect their mutual loves of\r\n punk rock and baseball as a coherent whole.<\/tt><\/tt><\/pre>\n
-- From \"Was He Safe or Was He Out?\": Sports Zines and Questions of Authenticity\r\nCogan, Brian<\/span>Journal of Popular Culture<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
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This connection is admittedly one that recognizes how punk rock has transmitted at least some of its artifacts into mainstream culture in general. However, this is also an example of how certain aspects of baseball, at least what is considered the authentic or “pure” nature of baseball, can be captured, or recreated, if recognized. Just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}