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...Papi be Papi. For once, can we not be the Chicken Little Nervous Nellies of yesteryear? This guy carried us to two World Series championships, the first time that's happened in my lifetime. Guess what? He's human. He's recovering. He'll get his swing back. All will be right in the world. They didn't bury his jersey under the new Yankees Stadium for nothing. And, bottom line, who would you rather have: a hobbled Big Papi in the lineup or little Steinbrenners in the front office? We win this...
Senior Matt Kramer has noticed that O’Hara’s swing has improved in the past few weeks after the team took a spring break training trip to California. After working with coaches following his early-season slump, O’Hara feels more comfortable at the plate now that he has adopted a different stance...
...There may be a comical aspect in gazing too deeply at the tire’s inky rubber darkness. But the choice of the swing at the center of the iconography of Harvard’s crown jewel social event reveals something about what Harvard students are, what they imagine themselves to be, and how they animate their bizarre concepts of fun. From one direction, the tire swing is just paraphernalia for an afternoon of enjoyment. From another, though, it is a semiotic icon for the unique Harvard imagination of leisure...
...There is no better symbol to represent these hopes and illusions than the tire swing. The romance of the tire swing implies lusting after a place where we can indulge in replaying our childlike urges. Motorless, silent, and cheap, it is the embodiment of the make-do, enterprising, and venturesome childhoods which we might possibly have lived ourselves but more likely read about secondhand...
...irony is that there are plenty of trees with overhanging branches, plenty of sunny days, and plenty of resourceful students who could surely scour up some tires and rope. Idleness beckons all around us, warded off only by the Calvinist remonstrances of our upbringings. And so the tire swing finds itself rarified, parceled out inside a certain number of hours and inside a certain perimeter of fence...