Bits and Pieces: Baseball is a metaphor for…Downton Abbey?

March 6, 2012

A roundup of a few stray items.

• James Bailey posted a review of David Stinson’s novel Deadball.

• My wife and I recently discovered Downton Abbey big-time. We watched both seasons via Netflix and PBS.org in less than two weeks. Pieces like this are kind of a stretch, but it suggests “Baseball and Downtown Abbey  — A Lot Closer Than You Know.”

• If baseball is a metaphor for life, what are fantasy sports a metaphor phor? AJ Mass, author of How Fantasy Sports Explains the World: What Pujols and Peyton Can Teach Us About Wookiees and Wall Street, tries to answer that in this interview with The Nerdist blog.

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Tagged as: Deadball, Downton Abbey, Fantasy sport, The Nerdist Podcast

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