Ted Anthony

The pope, the Chicago beef sandwich and the cult of the regular guy in America. My latest. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

In which one sister "assaults" another sister with a spice can during the Eisenhower administration, and the baby brother, me, uses the episode 75 years later to make some points about writing. I love using family stories to teach. The latest Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

@ClintHurdle13 You keep saying useful things. At least to me. Thank you.

During one of the worst losing streaks of my career, our team president walked into my office. Keli McGregor. One of the best men I've ever known. He could have come to vent. To question my decisions. To ask hard questions. Instead, he said: "Cut to the chase, Clint. What's next?" I looked him in the eye and gave him two words: "Shower well." The Colorado Rockies were struggling badly that year. Pregame preparation was solid. Scout meetings, early work, attention to detail. All of it was there. But at game time, the tires were flat. I told Keli: the game did everything it could to us today. We just couldn't meet its demands. Now it was time to reset. "Shower well" means exactly this: • Watch the frustration circle down the drain • Shampoo, rinse, repeat and get the grime of today completely off your mind • Walk out clean, go home, and actually rest Leave it at the ballpark. The game is over. There's nothing left to solve tonight. Keli nodded. Asked if he could share it with the whole organization. I said sure. And then it hit me. This isn't just for baseball. Bad day at the office. Grumpy boss. Missed deadline. Traffic on the way home. You can carry all of that through your front door. Or you can shower well. I've never seen a single problem get better because someone dragged it home with them. The reset is a discipline. Same as preparation. Same as showing up. Either we win. Or we learn. The only real loss? When you don't take a single thing out of a hard day. So tonight, whatever kind of day it was, shower well. Tomorrow is a new at-bat. What does your reset look like? I'd love to hear it.

Read. This. Right now. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

The day planner as the story of a life — and its slow end. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Of elephants, telephones and linguistic whimsy. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

When being unintelligible IS the story. Today’s Storylines. @unsortedbutsignificant/note/c-230299729?r=zxzd&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@unsortedbutsi…

No words. Literally. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

I said goodbye in ink, bit by bit. The latest Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Inhale. The newspaper’s here. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Ultimately, language always evolves. But does it have to do so like this? open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Harnessing history’s currents. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Children, collage, the past and the future. The first Storylines guest post, by the excellent Erin Madigan White. @emadiganwrites open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Train your eye to see the unseen – or to dream it up. The latest Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

Maybe the Hollywood ending ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. The latest Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

The (well-used) objects of our affection. The latest Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…

@ron_fournier apnews.com/article/baseba…

covered up his coverup, got caught, and covered it up.

On this date in 1979, the @Pirates officially unveiled their new mascot – the Pirate Parrot. Hey @gbrowniepoints, is that you in there?

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW

How the West was won — for smart storytelling. And how Star Trek figures in. Today’s Storylines. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyted…