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Nice pull on the Eliot... your recaps are often poetic, but it’s nice to see some actual poetry in there every now and then.

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I have a huge place in my heart for astronauts.

I worked at the Lennox Town Center Barnes & Noble in Columbus throughout college. Senator/Sir/Mister John Glenn would arrive with his wife on Sunday, sometimes. They’d come to cafe and do you know what he ordered every time?

Venti green tea Frappuccino, light ice, extra matcha. He said please and thank you and tipped and that mother fucker WENT TO SPACE ON A ROMAN CANDLE.

Do you know how nerve wracking it is to make a blended beverage for a spaceman?

Just outrageously kind, and he forever changed my opinion of tea and smoothies.

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Shildt didn't *let* Cabrera stay in the game. The three batter minimum rule required that he keep him in the game, a topic Shildt addressed in his post-game comments.

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Donate today to the Buy the Mets a Hit Fund today! Save deGrom’s sanity now!

Is it bad of me that I wish that elephant had returned the favor to LaPierre?

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I know the Pirates are not the most interesting team but the Royals are doing good stuff. You could have at least given them a one line recap instead of erasing them from history.

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Just to illuminate how tight the margins are in independent ball, the most expensive line item is not salaries, not stadium rent, not field maintenance, but insurance for worker's compensation.

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Let’s not hit anyone in the face with any pitches again, okay? I have my blood pressure to worry about and the players than have a lifetime of CTE to worry about.

Even though he’s a Mets player, I feel bad for deGrom. That’s gotta suck after awhile.

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Man, if there was ever a sure fire way to show the world you're an impotent and insecure old man, it's the shooting of endangered species. I have a wealthy customer who himself has paid tens of thousands to "hunt" lions in Africa, mountain sheep/goats in Afghanistan, and even reindeer in Iceland and he admits there's very little "hunt." More like, "sit here and they will walk by shortly because we've baited the trail daily for years now." All for a photo op with the carcass.

Oh, and ketchup goes in the fridge once opened, but hot sauce can stay out. I recall some famous TV chef saying (about hot sauce), "bacteria doesn't want to live in there any more than you do."

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Apr 29, 2021Liked by Craig Calcaterra

Thank you for the mention of Michael Collins, IMO one of the most underappreciated people in American history.

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Shocked that Churchill Downs would let you bring ANY concessions inside. Doesn’t soda have even more of a markup than alcohol?

Crazy story though! Now those drunk college students have graduated into parents trying to smuggle snacks into a movie theater.

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That whole "triple short of the cycle" bit has stuck with me all these years to the point that I don't even consider the cycle in play until the triple is on the board. Gleeman wasn't wrong.

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Why do I remember Jim Bouton having not nice things to say about La Russa? I don't remember what he said but I have a felt sense for some beef he had with him even back then before he was a name.

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Taylor was just a single, double, and HR short of the cycle.

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The Mets as the Evil Empire? Are you confusing them with their crosstown rivals?

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Epic Derby story!

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