June 23, 2004

Why baseball AND bigrockaction?: ChinMusic! is an Oakland-based annual-or-so baseball/music 'zine with interesting juxtapositions (Johnny Ramone and Oakland A's GM Billy Beane interviewing each other), random reviews (potato chips?), and parody covers. Editor and publisher Kevin Chanel was profiled in East Bay Express in January.

posted by kirkaracha to culture at 03:59 PM - 3 comments

From the East Bay Express article:

One of the things they don't really talk about in Moneyball is that Billy Beane loves the Ramones, loves the [Sex] Pistols and the Buzzcocks. Billy actually called me once on opening day. I'd never met him before; I don't even know how the hell he found my number. It was when they still sucked, when they were just bringing [Jason] Giambi up to be full-time. We talked for like half an hour about the Buzzcocks, Pistols. We talked Dictators! And I just kind of thought: 'Jeez, you really should be finding a shortstop instead of talking to me!'"
Chinmusic was mentioned by slowpete in September 2003.

posted by kirkaracha at 03:59 PM on June 23, 2004

Johnny Ramone: "Boy, at this point [John Wetteland's] into Christian rock. So I guess he must have gone through some problems in his life!" Great stuff. Thanks.

posted by yerfatma at 06:02 PM on June 23, 2004

This is the link of the year so far. From "Things I Can Do While Mark Grace Runs To First Base" 1) I can say "Tim Salmon' 13 and a half times 2) Order two Hot Dogs and a Beer at the game, screw up the amount, and go back into my pocket fishing another buck in change. . . . 12) Foreplay 13) Any Minute Abs 14) Find the remote

posted by vito90 at 03:11 AM on June 24, 2004

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