Dennis O'Hare
speaker
246 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Dennis O'Hare’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The walkways and seating are cold as basements.
I breathe the odors of rancid popcorn and wilted cardboard.
The maintenance staff was laid off when the strike began.
Synthetic grass does not need to be cut or watered.
I stare down at the ball diamond, where just to the right of the pitcher's mound, a single weed, perhaps two inches high, stands defiant in the rain-packed dirt.
The field sits breathless in the orangey glow of the evening sun.
I stare at the potato-colored earth of the infield, that wide, dun arc surrounded by plastic glass.
As I contemplate the prickly turf, which scorches the thighs and buttocks of a sliding player as if he were being seared by steel, it stares back in its uniform ugliness.
The seams that send routinely hit ground balls veering at torturous angles are vivid, gray as scars.
I remember the ball fields of my childhood, the outfields full of soft hummocks, brown-eyed gopher holes.
I stride down from the stand and walk out to the middle of the field.
I touch the stubble that is called grass, take off my shoes, but find it is like walking on a row of toothbrushes.
It was an evil day when they stripped the sod from this ballpark, cut it into yard-wide swaths, rolled it, memories and all, into great green and black cinnamon roll shapes, trucked it away.
Nature temporarily defeated, but nature is patient.
Over the next few days, an idea forms within me, ripening, swelling, pushing everything else into a corner.
It's like knowing a new wonderful joke and not being able to share.
I need an accomplice.
I go to see a man I don't know personally, though I have seen his face peering at me from the financial pages of the local newspaper and the Wall Street Journal, and I have been watching his profile at the baseball stadium, two boxes to the right of me,
For several years, he is a fan.
Really, a fan.
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