Practices (like chess or playing the piano) reveal goods internal to it in other words, people who excel at the practice hone skills that we praise. Baseball is one of those distinctly human things that the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre calls a “practice”: a particularly elevated kind of cooperative human activity. Baseball is tremendously complicated, and if you spent time listening to Vin, you’d begin to see it blossom. He’d help you see possibilities: Maybe they will hit and run, or pitch around this batter, or try to throw inside. I, like so many others, learned to see baseball through Vin’s eyes. Likewise, when Vin praised someone (as in the case of former Brave, current Dodger Freddie Freeman) as a “fine young ball player,” you knew that he was telling you with good authority that this was not just someone talented, but someone with character. ![]() When the talented and undisciplined Yasiel Puig emerged as a Dodger, Vin aptly nicknamed him “the Wild Horse.” And when the ball was hit to Puig with runners on base (or when Puig was on base himself), Vin’s voice conveyed the daring recklessness that was on display. He marveled at the players, but never just at their physical prowess he’d share their personality, tendencies, and flaws as well. Sure, he told stories-always with grace and candor-but it wasn’t a distraction from the game. When Vin called a game, he drew your attention to what mattered. Just enduring a season is an achievement in handling adversity and failure. And let’s not forget about Lady Luck: She ruins pitchers with bloop hits and seeing-eye singles, hitters with knock-down wind currents, and fielders with bad hops and glaring sunlight. Players face failure with crushing regularity, and advantages of showmanship quickly evaporate over the span of 162 games and the inevitable humbling of time. The games are long, and the season is longer. But it’s also beautiful because it is harsh. You can see the beauty in the shape of the field, in the speed and grace of the ball players, in the history that people treat with such reverence, and in the smell of the leather and grass. Vin’s calls were beautiful because baseball is beautiful. The world was on time, the sun was shining-at least somewhere-and the world was spinning around a center that seemed sure to hold. When we heard Vin’s voice crackle through the radio, wishing a “very good evening to you, wherever you may be” to each of us, we could exhale. He spoke to us of a game that is much more than just a game. For sixty-seven years, Vin was the voice of the Dodgers-a voice that chronicled the move from Brooklyn to L.A., from a barely integrated league to an international one, and from radio to the internet. The longtime Dodgers announcer, who passed away earlier this month at age ninety-four, marked the start of every baseball season of my childhood, just as he had for my father and grandfather. This was our first apartment combo in Brooklyn since then we have already started others.Carols precede Christmas, birds welcome the dawn, and the voice of Vin Scully heralds the spring. Our client purchased the one bedroom apartment and hired us as the architects on the job. The client had been living in a 2 bedroom apartment when their neighbor put his condo up for sale. In late 2017 we completed an apartment combinationand gut renovation in Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn Heights Apartment Renovation & Combinationīrooklyn Heights Apartment Renovation And Combo.They range from apartment renovations to building additions and new construction. Here are a few projects we will tell you about in Brooklyn. We do work in all boroughs and outside of the city as well, but is some of our work in BK only. ![]() In this blog post we would like to share a few of our recent architecture projects in Brooklyn. A large portion of our work at Fontan Architecture has been in Brooklyn especially in the past few years. Brooklyn has been a hot spot of construction for many years now.
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