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Take Me Out

2005· article· en· W231757090 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNine · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAmerican Sports and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnisonBattleComedyVisual artsDramaWrightArtReading (process)Performance artRevelsArt historyHistoryLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Me Out. Written by Richard Greenberg, directed by Joe Mantello. Bagley Wright Theatre, Seattle WA. November 12, 2004. Last spring I read Richard Greenberg's play Take Me Out and was captivated. I hoped to someday get a chance to see the play performed, and not merely because of the promise of male nudity. Reading a play, no matter how well-written, cannot capture the highs and lows of comedy and drama, or the effect of pacing on either. In the same way, reading a box score or story (no matter how well-written) cannot capture the beauty of a well-turned double play, the excitement of fans screaming in unison as the runner rounds third, or the tense battle between pitcher and batter. When I saw Take Me Out it was the second game of the season at the Seattle Repertory Theater. Though the on-stage cast differed from those who had performed in the Tony award-winning Broadway production (with the exception of Gene Gabriel, an original cast member and the movement consultant), the actors in the Seattle production were up to the task. The performances of Doug Wert, as Kippy Sunderstrom, and of T. Scott Cunningham, as Mason Marzac, were especially memorable. Director Joe Mantello, who won a Tony award for Take Me Out on Broadway, along with set designer Scott Pask, costume designer Jess Goldstein, and sound designer Janet Kalas all reprised their Broadway roles. They created believable clubhouse, shower, and on-the-field scenes with a set so well designed that it never has to physically change. A plot synopsis would go something like this: star biracial baseball player announces that he is homosexual, setting in motion a particular chain of events among his fans, friends, and teammates. Professional team sports have long struggled with the idea of having homosexual teammates. Billy Bean, for example, came out only after he retired from the game, having played his career under a sort of de facto ask, don't tell policy. Any work involving unresolved issues surrounding homosexuality will necessarily touch on questions of tolerance, bigotry, and even religion. But categorizing Take Me Out as a play written solely to grapple with these issues (though important) minimizes it. It is also a story of friendship, of acknowledging and accepting who we are both privately and publicly. But most of all, it is a story of an unabashed, unadulterated love for baseball. Greenberg's play does engage in some stereotypes of its own in the sketches of the minor characters: the dumb jock (the catcher, probably the position least likely to be the dumb jock), the macho Latino ballplayers, and the too-intense Japanese pitcher. But Greenberg's main characters are more deeply, if subtly, drawn, inviting us to want to learn more about them. Even the John Rocker-like character of Shane Mungitt intrigues us as we learn about his troubled childhood and his anguished need for baseball. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.307
Threshold uncertainty score0.819

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1820.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it