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Name: Carson Cistulli

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Bio: Carson Cistulli is a contributor to The New Enthusiast and author of Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated. He teaches at Portland Community College.

Articles written by Carson Cistulli

Riley Pugh Interview

Riley Pugh Interview

By Carson Cistulli • on November 23, 2009

Riley Pugh is all of these things: (a) A local 10-year-old (b) A member of Portland City United (PCU) soccer club (c) A budding sports journalist (d) A

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ETBR Road Trip: A Perfect Mark

ETBR Road Trip: A Perfect Mark

By Carson Cistulli • on July 24, 2009

Inning One: First Things First It would probably be indecent of me not to begin this dispatch by mentioning that Chicago starter Mark Buehrle, whose name

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ETBR Road Trip: Michigander, Michigoose

ETBR Road Trip: Michigander, Michigoose

By Carson Cistulli • on July 21, 2009

The following game happened Saturday, July 18th. The outcome is very secret. Inning

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ETBR Road Trip: San Francisco Frigging Treat

ETBR Road Trip: San Francisco Frigging Treat

By Carson Cistulli • on July 17, 2009

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ETBR Road Trip: California Doubleheader

ETBR Road Trip: California Doubleheader

By Carson Cistulli • on July 13, 2009

The following games took place on July 8th. As usual, the author harbors no regrets about his tardiness. As for other things — he harbors tons of

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Reno 8, Your Portland Beavers 6

Reno 8, Your Portland Beavers 6

By Carson Cistulli • on June 26, 2009

Inning One: Goodbye Really Isn’t Forever Because, like the Terminator and the Tin Man before him, I, too, possess nothing resembling a human emotional

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Your Portland Beavers 5, Tacoma 3

Your Portland Beavers 5, Tacoma 3

By Carson Cistulli • on June 20, 2009

Pretend that what follows was written, and that you are reading it on, the night of June 17th — a.k.a. the night on which this game actually occurred.

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Tacoma 11, Your Portland Beavers 2

Inning One: Ars Fanatica The Astute Reader might remember how, in a recent iteration of the Report, yours truly went head over you-know-whats for Gregory F. Augustine Pierce’s new-ish book How Bill

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Your Portland Beavers 5, Reno 1

Inning One: When It Rains, It Cistullis We’ve got a saying where I come from. It goes: “Once a Cistulli, always a Cistulli.” We’ve got a couple other sayings, too, like: “You can tell

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Your Portland Beavers 6, Reno 4

Inning One: Socrates Johnson Greek philosopher Socrates – aka Father of the Western Intellectual Tradition – is famous for many reasons, such as appearing in a number of Plato’s Dialogues, his

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