I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell you guys, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics.
I actually worked in the booth during the Rickey Henderson season (2003), and I’m pretty sure Giambi wasn’t there that year. They did have Jose Lima and Mark Whiten that year though. Lima was another guy who tragically died way too young. (The less said about Whiten, the better.)
But then one day I was in St Louis and Lima walked around during batting practice having the absolute time of his life. Shagging flies, throwing baseballs to kids, and joking around with fans in the bleachers.
I honestly think he was having more fun than anyone else in Busch Stadium. Made me a Lima fan from that day forward. LIMA TIME wasn't always effective, but it was certainly never boring.
Lima had more fun than any player I’d ever been around. On the field, behind the scenes - even with players, fans, and staff at a sparsely attended indy league game.
The Lerners made their fortune in commercial real estate. Some of that was in shopping malls, which aren't what they used to be, and some of it was office space, and the pandemic has changed the calculus on that, what with telecommuting lowering the need for it.
I'm sure they're going to look for lots of alternative revenue streams to make up for any losses they're suffering.
They are long known in the DC metro area as the most ruthless commercial landlords in a ruthless business. As someone who used to be part-owner of a DC area restaurant operator, they were top of the short list of landlords we avoided signing leases with. They do not have a reputation for "win-win" business dealings in the DC commercial real estate world.
I’m hoping that somehow they suffer enough financial pain that they end up selling the team to the Mars family, if only so that Nats Park can be re-branded as The Red Planet.
Someone remind of the name of the actor Craig used to illustrate his lawyer update. I can't remember the name, just that he was really talented.
RIP Mr. Giambi. I hope his family finds some solace in the wake of such a tragedy.
The Mets announced they are bringing back Old TImers Day. Putting aside "but there might not be a season!", I am glad to hear this. The only team that's been having one is the Yankees, and everyone else seems determined to leave the past in the past. But I like the idea and wonder which Mets will come back. Hernandez? Franco? Doc? Pedro? So many to choose from.
If memory serves, there was a plan last year to make a little on-field ceremony of giving him his paycheck. A bit of fun that Bonilla was willing to go along with.
And these days, "deferred payments" are much more normal.
Deferred payments have been part of player compensation at least since the 1970s. The first modern free agent, Catfish Hunter, became a free agent because Charlie Finley breached his contract by not paying his deferred salary.
As Casey said, if you don’t have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. And fortunately the catcher about whom Mr. Stengel said that, Hobie Landrith, is still alive at 91.
There's a "news" article about how Lenny Dykstra is upset he's not invited and would rather "party with the fans in the parking lot" anyway. Very on brand.
On the other hand...Daniel Murphy? Really? Well, it's not anyone in the sport has taken his homophobia seriously yet. But I would be glad to pack him off with Dykstra.
Mike Sixel, that is an instant classic, one of the very greatest Youtube channels.
If I were a high school teacher, I would show the channel to my class and I would ask them "guess what on earth this is all about?" It is probably a good thing that I am not a high school teacher.
Anyone want to guess the odds of the owners moving their counteroffer less than 5% towards the players this weekend and the claiming the players are being unreasonable?
I referenced that skit in a facebook post recently!
Incidentally, for those who saw the thread I started, my dog doesn't eat Super Colon Blow but he might as well be in light of the results we see (or, in the dark, thankfully beslippered, the results we feel).
The New Madrid Fault (it’s going to liquify the banks of the Mississippi and swallow nuclear power plants) St. Louise is out and Kansas City will be the closest functioning trauma center (hospital)
New Madrid is the one that caused church bells to ring in Boston during an earthquake in the early 1800s, isn't it? The geology east of the Mississippi combined with the lack of any earthquake building codes makes me shudder to think what might happen if that one let loose.
New Madrid went off in the early 1800s, right? Eyewitness accounts say that the things floating in the Mississippi were going upriver, trees were down... this was when there were many fewer people in the area of course, and no telegraph let alone Action Eyewitness News. Anyway, hopefully the fault got whatever indigestion out of its system and we'llbe allright down near that toe part of Missouri for awhile.
From the accounts of that quake - series of quakes, actually - every phenomenon associated with earthquakes (save tsunami, for obvious reasons) happened. Rivers changed course, the ground literally rippled, the earth split open and swallowed people....
I used to work with FEMA when I was near Nashville. They only exercises we ever ran for the New Madrid 'BIG ONE'. My hometown is less than 250 miles away. Fortunately, all the buidlings are already crumblin' and falling apart due to small-town decay. A devestating earthquake might actually improve the property values.
When I interviewed for a job at SIU Carbondale, I was startled to see in the phonebook (remember them?) earthquake emergency information along with the tornado info. Then I remembered New Madrid…
What with the Reelfoot fault zone - what us seismologically savvy types call what you folkies refer to as New Madrid - that hypothetical construct lying between the east and west coast lacks only volcanoes to make it interesting
Category 5 hurricane hitting NYC head-on (Sandy was on the border of Cat 4/5, and was a glancing blow.....). We're talking the eye running right over Manhattan....
But we're not talking the fault line running down the Hudson Submarine Canyon. There could be a nastier surprise yet awaiting Gotham. I just hope it won't negatively impact the shad run.
I went ice fishing a lot in the 1970s. So far, no prostitution unless you count my years practicing law. Should that come before or after the acid flashbacks I was promised in the 80s but which haven’t yet arrived either.
I'm 33 years old and have no problem saying that Klosterman is wrong about the 90s being the last distinct decade in regards to easily identifiable signifiers and whatnot. The early 2000s have some pretty easily recognizable things that pop up in movies and TV shows that are hilarious to look back at now, with my favorite one being how expensive and luxurious DVD players were.
There are multiple plot points in the Sopranos and the Fast and the Furious where entire crimes are planned around the theft of shipments of DVD players since they cost hundreds of dollars. The first one my family had was the PS2 I won selling candy for 8th grade band. Anything from 2000-2010ish had really strong chances of relying on electronics getting used as an obvious sign of wealth (cell phones, huge TVs, surround sound, computers) because it was right before all of that got relatively cheap.
None of this is as cool or fun to watch the change in like clothes or cars going from the 60s to the 70s to the 80s, but even just think of what your living room looked like 20 years ago as opposed to now. It just gets harder to notice when you've spent most of your career writing about 80s and 90s pop culture like Klosterman has.
This is interesting. Really the signifiers have always been technological, but electronics played a back seat to the clothing tech. But still, a depiction of the past is those big tv’s and 80’s cell phones.
Watch an episode of Burn Notice and you will see lots of changes, like flip phones and texting without a keyboard.
I have not read the article yet either, but thinking on it, it’s obvious the last thing to “be really different” was when I was about 20-30, seems pretty suspect. “All the new stuff these kids are doing is the same.”
No, but the plastic slipcovers on your living room couches will get kinda skanky from years of farting if you don't change them a little more often than that.
For the first time in Billboard Top 100 history, the number one song right now is from a Disney movie - Encanto. It's called "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and apparently anyone with kids under a certain age knows all about it. Never before has a Disney song *as sung in the movie itself* (emphasis important, as you'll see in a moment) topped the Hot 100. Not "Let It Go", not "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?", nor a whole host of songs you probably remember better than the actual number ones of the years they came out. A lot of this has to do with the changing way Billboard calculates chart position, which like the Major League strike zone has changed several times over the years since 1958, when the Hot 100 was created, the same year in which Prince, Madonna, and Michael Jackson were born for what it's worth. The song from the Aladdin soundtrack "A Whole New World" did make number one, although not the movie version - rather, a duet by two adult r&b smooth singers attained the summit. "Bruno" is the first number one Disney song from the actual movie, sung by the actors, plucked directly from the scene.
The Schulz article is worthy of the Pulitzer. I must've showed that to everyone I thought might even read the first paragraph, back when I first encountered it in one of those "best longform articles you might have missed" year-end lists. Plus the Yellowstone Caldera is due (give or take a millennium), which when THAT happens... hoo boy, say bye-bye to Great Plains agriculture and bundle up for a mini-Ice Age, or worse.
As for the MLBPA and owners? They're singing "we'll meet again... don't know where, don't know when". Me, I'll be happy if I can see Major League Baseball by my birthday in May.
That's what I've heard, that the best song is Oruguitas. Our household has generally been a Pixar yes/Disney no one for years but Encanto seems to be a Disney film for which we might need to make an exception.
I'll play my hand: I got up to use the restroom, sky black as it gets just before dawn, and as I walked through the dark living room heading back to bed I felt something squish underfoot. It was at that moment I realized that either: 1. My day could only get better, or 2. My day is really going to suck.
Either way, little dogs don't always ask to be let out overnight, and now I'm wide awake. Maybe I'll put on the Sixel channel and try and nap.
Difference between my small dog and yours: our guy doesn't understand that he really ought to wake us up when he's gotta go. He does sleep under the top cover, though - he'll wake ya up to be let under. What a jerk, I love him. His name is Fiorello La Guardia, and he's to the best of knowledge a basenji/dachshund. He's a funny looking little dog.
Yes, it is better or it is worse... nah just kidding, it's better. After all nothing distracts from dog shit on one's slipper like reading about natural disasters that could upend the lives of hundreds of thousands, right?
I edited my comment to add what I'd thought to say but I'd posted too soon. Curse this edit button - now I can more easily disguise my hasty posts as something other than what they are!
I've been an adherent of Slipper Life for just about my entire life. My current pair are almost moccasins, they're great. Once, for about a year, I wore big fluffy dolphin slippers. They cracked me up, but unfortunately fell apart rather quickly.
But yes, if this story happens and I'm barefoot, well... first of all, I'm not posting yet (at time of the original) because I'm in the shower.
Aren't they unfortunately a little TOO good at controlling the potential small and smedium-sized prey? I've heard things. Alligator populations dropping in the Everglades, stuff like that. Maybe we need to breed a python terrier, a vicious and nimble little type with the attitude of a hungover and roided-up jack russell. These dogs could dart in behind the pythons' heads and bite them at the base of their skulls, snapping their spines and killing them. Good boy! Have a lizard.
Speaking of The Negro Leagues - I just finished "Only The Ball Was White" last week - highly recommended for an entertaining overview of the Negro Leagues from the late 1800s until it all fell apart right after Jackie Robinson got signed. Also, the museum in Kansas City is definitely worth a visit if you are ever in the area. While in KC eat at Gates BBQ.
Great book. And one of the few that go back even to the 1800s. It was my only exposure to Bud Fowler before his recent selection to Cooperstown.
I’ve only been to KC as an adult once. It was a business trip circa 2014 but I built in an extra day so I could go to the NeL Museum. Imagine my surprise when I arrived to find that it was closed on Mondays.
I actually worked in the booth during the Rickey Henderson season (2003), and I’m pretty sure Giambi wasn’t there that year. They did have Jose Lima and Mark Whiten that year though. Lima was another guy who tragically died way too young. (The less said about Whiten, the better.)
Man, I *hated* Jose Lima when he was an Astro.
But then one day I was in St Louis and Lima walked around during batting practice having the absolute time of his life. Shagging flies, throwing baseballs to kids, and joking around with fans in the bleachers.
I honestly think he was having more fun than anyone else in Busch Stadium. Made me a Lima fan from that day forward. LIMA TIME wasn't always effective, but it was certainly never boring.
Lima had more fun than any player I’d ever been around. On the field, behind the scenes - even with players, fans, and staff at a sparsely attended indy league game.
And just think, here in North America we got the toned-down and subdued version of Lima Time.
I feel lucky to have gotten to see it first-hand, even if it was toned down. I'll take what I can get!
The Lerners made their fortune in commercial real estate. Some of that was in shopping malls, which aren't what they used to be, and some of it was office space, and the pandemic has changed the calculus on that, what with telecommuting lowering the need for it.
I'm sure they're going to look for lots of alternative revenue streams to make up for any losses they're suffering.
They are long known in the DC metro area as the most ruthless commercial landlords in a ruthless business. As someone who used to be part-owner of a DC area restaurant operator, they were top of the short list of landlords we avoided signing leases with. They do not have a reputation for "win-win" business dealings in the DC commercial real estate world.
I’m hoping that somehow they suffer enough financial pain that they end up selling the team to the Mars family, if only so that Nats Park can be re-branded as The Red Planet.
I could be mistaken, but I thought they were the wealthiest owners in MLB (before the pandemic).
I think you're right on that, and while I'm sure they've suffered some losses due to the pandemic, I'd still trade ATM cards with them any day.
Someone remind of the name of the actor Craig used to illustrate his lawyer update. I can't remember the name, just that he was really talented.
RIP Mr. Giambi. I hope his family finds some solace in the wake of such a tragedy.
The Mets announced they are bringing back Old TImers Day. Putting aside "but there might not be a season!", I am glad to hear this. The only team that's been having one is the Yankees, and everyone else seems determined to leave the past in the past. But I like the idea and wonder which Mets will come back. Hernandez? Franco? Doc? Pedro? So many to choose from.
Bonilla has got to appear, right?
Is it too soon for Bartolo?
Probably, but I still want him to come, be fed a slow pitch, and get to homer at Citi.
Another version of this, sign fans of all teams up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcD4ou5idzU
I think the rules of Old Timers Games require that you're no longer being paid by the team as a player.
If memory serves, there was a plan last year to make a little on-field ceremony of giving him his paycheck. A bit of fun that Bonilla was willing to go along with.
And these days, "deferred payments" are much more normal.
Deferred payments have been part of player compensation at least since the 1970s. The first modern free agent, Catfish Hunter, became a free agent because Charlie Finley breached his contract by not paying his deferred salary.
Along with Murray and Coleman for sure.
It's about time he earned his continued (and continuing) keep.
While the Yankees (as a fan I am required to say) continue to put the past in the present, b/c the present is kinda ...
Jon Polito. The picture is from Miller's Crossing.
As Casey said, if you don’t have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. And fortunately the catcher about whom Mr. Stengel said that, Hobie Landrith, is still alive at 91.
"He's 20 and in 10 years he has a chance to be ... 30."
-- Stengel on Greg Goossen
Goossen's BB-Ref page has a line I don't think I've seen on any other player's page:
"Died: February 26, 2011 (Aged 65-074d) in Sherman Oaks, CA
Buried: Body donated to UCLA Medical School"
BB-Ref has an index to places of burial but I can't find any easy way to find ones like Goossen's or Ted Williams'
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bio/#all_location-of-burial
Well. HE MADE IT PAST 30 AFTER ALL!!
There's a "news" article about how Lenny Dykstra is upset he's not invited and would rather "party with the fans in the parking lot" anyway. Very on brand.
Are the Cohen era Mets actually organized enough to have invited anyone yet?
Lenny is very welcome to attend an Old Timers Game somewhere else. Would rather have Mookie anyway.
They sure are: https://www.mlb.com/mets/news/mets-old-timers-day-game-returns
On the one hand, that is good planning.
On the other hand...Daniel Murphy? Really? Well, it's not anyone in the sport has taken his homophobia seriously yet. But I would be glad to pack him off with Dykstra.
And the Frank Thomas listed is not the Big Hurt but the 92 year old original Met. I hope he remains well enough to attend. (Quite a few are still alive as per https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-original-mets-remember-1962-20220108-o3dhoadn7bdghjagcg5mp5zkx4-story.html)
Jesse Orosco, if he's not still playing.
Jon Polito
Mike Sixel, that is an instant classic, one of the very greatest Youtube channels.
If I were a high school teacher, I would show the channel to my class and I would ask them "guess what on earth this is all about?" It is probably a good thing that I am not a high school teacher.
The guy to the left of the mayor is all of us.
Yes! He totally nails the "get a load of this bullshit" expression. A+ performance by that guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqmr8rnKUg
Outstanding work, Mr. Sixel
Anyone want to guess the odds of the owners moving their counteroffer less than 5% towards the players this weekend and the claiming the players are being unreasonable?
You must be some sort of witch with your mystical ability to see into the future
You mention Catalina Crunch in here enough that I just assumed it was already a sponsor
I thought it was a made-up product like Slurm or Bachelor Chow.
A perfectly cromulent breakfast option.
I’m more a fan of Super Colon Blow
One of the greatest SNL fake commercials ever (starring YET ANOTHER person who tragically died way too young): https://youtu.be/Ku42Iszh9KM
I referenced that skit in a facebook post recently!
Incidentally, for those who saw the thread I started, my dog doesn't eat Super Colon Blow but he might as well be in light of the results we see (or, in the dark, thankfully beslippered, the results we feel).
So best American potential disasters:
The Super Volcano
The Tsunami of the Northwest
The New Madrid Fault (it’s going to liquify the banks of the Mississippi and swallow nuclear power plants) St. Louise is out and Kansas City will be the closest functioning trauma center (hospital)
New Madrid is the one that caused church bells to ring in Boston during an earthquake in the early 1800s, isn't it? The geology east of the Mississippi combined with the lack of any earthquake building codes makes me shudder to think what might happen if that one let loose.
New Madrid went off in the early 1800s, right? Eyewitness accounts say that the things floating in the Mississippi were going upriver, trees were down... this was when there were many fewer people in the area of course, and no telegraph let alone Action Eyewitness News. Anyway, hopefully the fault got whatever indigestion out of its system and we'llbe allright down near that toe part of Missouri for awhile.
"Rivers burn, and run backwards..." https://youtu.be/t7CGkuLEs5U
Beat me to it. One of my favorite songs. One reason I keep going to see Wilco is in hopes of catching a rare breakout of New Madrid.
From the accounts of that quake - series of quakes, actually - every phenomenon associated with earthquakes (save tsunami, for obvious reasons) happened. Rivers changed course, the ground literally rippled, the earth split open and swallowed people....
We'll spare Illinois and Kentucky if you can take out Kansas for us. Fair trade?
As an Illinoisan 90 miles from the empty shell formally known as St. Louis, I approve of this idea.
https://amp.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article223049475.html
I used to work with FEMA when I was near Nashville. They only exercises we ever ran for the New Madrid 'BIG ONE'. My hometown is less than 250 miles away. Fortunately, all the buidlings are already crumblin' and falling apart due to small-town decay. A devestating earthquake might actually improve the property values.
When I interviewed for a job at SIU Carbondale, I was startled to see in the phonebook (remember them?) earthquake emergency information along with the tornado info. Then I remembered New Madrid…
What with the Reelfoot fault zone - what us seismologically savvy types call what you folkies refer to as New Madrid - that hypothetical construct lying between the east and west coast lacks only volcanoes to make it interesting
If New Madrid goes off, Memphis is going to be at the bottom of the Mississippi. Unfortunately that’ll mean no more Graceland trips.
Yes, but it also means no more stupid duck parades, Elvis clone shows and designer poutines.
Category 5 hurricane hitting NYC head-on (Sandy was on the border of Cat 4/5, and was a glancing blow.....). We're talking the eye running right over Manhattan....
But we're not talking the fault line running down the Hudson Submarine Canyon. There could be a nastier surprise yet awaiting Gotham. I just hope it won't negatively impact the shad run.
I went ice fishing a lot in the 1970s. So far, no prostitution unless you count my years practicing law. Should that come before or after the acid flashbacks I was promised in the 80s but which haven’t yet arrived either.
Is ice fishing prostitution related to why we call prostitutes 'hookers'?
Snappers was already taken.
The articles regarding the earthquake made me flashback to the Ghostbuster scene in which Winston and Ray are discussing Judgment Day.
Hoping a deal is struck Saturday!
Have a great Thursday!!
I'm 33 years old and have no problem saying that Klosterman is wrong about the 90s being the last distinct decade in regards to easily identifiable signifiers and whatnot. The early 2000s have some pretty easily recognizable things that pop up in movies and TV shows that are hilarious to look back at now, with my favorite one being how expensive and luxurious DVD players were.
There are multiple plot points in the Sopranos and the Fast and the Furious where entire crimes are planned around the theft of shipments of DVD players since they cost hundreds of dollars. The first one my family had was the PS2 I won selling candy for 8th grade band. Anything from 2000-2010ish had really strong chances of relying on electronics getting used as an obvious sign of wealth (cell phones, huge TVs, surround sound, computers) because it was right before all of that got relatively cheap.
None of this is as cool or fun to watch the change in like clothes or cars going from the 60s to the 70s to the 80s, but even just think of what your living room looked like 20 years ago as opposed to now. It just gets harder to notice when you've spent most of your career writing about 80s and 90s pop culture like Klosterman has.
This is interesting. Really the signifiers have always been technological, but electronics played a back seat to the clothing tech. But still, a depiction of the past is those big tv’s and 80’s cell phones.
Watch an episode of Burn Notice and you will see lots of changes, like flip phones and texting without a keyboard.
I have not read the article yet either, but thinking on it, it’s obvious the last thing to “be really different” was when I was about 20-30, seems pretty suspect. “All the new stuff these kids are doing is the same.”
Burn Notice and Psych are both great examples. Even the tech at the start of each show looks comically passe by the end of the series.
You're spaught on about the Aughts.
Wait. Are you supposed to change your living room every 20 years?
So that's what she's on me about...
No, but the plastic slipcovers on your living room couches will get kinda skanky from years of farting if you don't change them a little more often than that.
Yeah okay Craig, as if I’m going to believe that the speaker of the house’s name is Larry HOUSEHOLDER.
There is a US Senator today who, to the best of my knowledge, has never run for President named Whitehouse.
For the first time in Billboard Top 100 history, the number one song right now is from a Disney movie - Encanto. It's called "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and apparently anyone with kids under a certain age knows all about it. Never before has a Disney song *as sung in the movie itself* (emphasis important, as you'll see in a moment) topped the Hot 100. Not "Let It Go", not "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?", nor a whole host of songs you probably remember better than the actual number ones of the years they came out. A lot of this has to do with the changing way Billboard calculates chart position, which like the Major League strike zone has changed several times over the years since 1958, when the Hot 100 was created, the same year in which Prince, Madonna, and Michael Jackson were born for what it's worth. The song from the Aladdin soundtrack "A Whole New World" did make number one, although not the movie version - rather, a duet by two adult r&b smooth singers attained the summit. "Bruno" is the first number one Disney song from the actual movie, sung by the actors, plucked directly from the scene.
The Schulz article is worthy of the Pulitzer. I must've showed that to everyone I thought might even read the first paragraph, back when I first encountered it in one of those "best longform articles you might have missed" year-end lists. Plus the Yellowstone Caldera is due (give or take a millennium), which when THAT happens... hoo boy, say bye-bye to Great Plains agriculture and bundle up for a mini-Ice Age, or worse.
As for the MLBPA and owners? They're singing "we'll meet again... don't know where, don't know when". Me, I'll be happy if I can see Major League Baseball by my birthday in May.
That's what I've heard, that the best song is Oruguitas. Our household has generally been a Pixar yes/Disney no one for years but Encanto seems to be a Disney film for which we might need to make an exception.
This is some early posting for you.
I'll play my hand: I got up to use the restroom, sky black as it gets just before dawn, and as I walked through the dark living room heading back to bed I felt something squish underfoot. It was at that moment I realized that either: 1. My day could only get better, or 2. My day is really going to suck.
Either way, little dogs don't always ask to be let out overnight, and now I'm wide awake. Maybe I'll put on the Sixel channel and try and nap.
Difference between my small dog and yours: our guy doesn't understand that he really ought to wake us up when he's gotta go. He does sleep under the top cover, though - he'll wake ya up to be let under. What a jerk, I love him. His name is Fiorello La Guardia, and he's to the best of knowledge a basenji/dachshund. He's a funny looking little dog.
Are you saying that posting on CoC is better or worse that stepping in dog doo?
Yes, it is better or it is worse... nah just kidding, it's better. After all nothing distracts from dog shit on one's slipper like reading about natural disasters that could upend the lives of hundreds of thousands, right?
I deserved that. :-(
I edited my comment to add what I'd thought to say but I'd posted too soon. Curse this edit button - now I can more easily disguise my hasty posts as something other than what they are!
You were wearing slippers? Way to bury the lede.
I've been an adherent of Slipper Life for just about my entire life. My current pair are almost moccasins, they're great. Once, for about a year, I wore big fluffy dolphin slippers. They cracked me up, but unfortunately fell apart rather quickly.
But yes, if this story happens and I'm barefoot, well... first of all, I'm not posting yet (at time of the original) because I'm in the shower.
Down thisaway we have feral pythons to control small dogs.
Aren't they unfortunately a little TOO good at controlling the potential small and smedium-sized prey? I've heard things. Alligator populations dropping in the Everglades, stuff like that. Maybe we need to breed a python terrier, a vicious and nimble little type with the attitude of a hungover and roided-up jack russell. These dogs could dart in behind the pythons' heads and bite them at the base of their skulls, snapping their spines and killing them. Good boy! Have a lizard.
Ackcherley the gators are overpopulated. Email me for my recipes for gator schnitzel.
Schulz DID win the Pulitzer for that article. She really did. https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kathryn-schulz
If people have money, they can pay for prostitutes, so let’s take everyone’s money away.
Up-to-date prostitutes will take crypto.
Speaking of The Negro Leagues - I just finished "Only The Ball Was White" last week - highly recommended for an entertaining overview of the Negro Leagues from the late 1800s until it all fell apart right after Jackie Robinson got signed. Also, the museum in Kansas City is definitely worth a visit if you are ever in the area. While in KC eat at Gates BBQ.
Great book. And one of the few that go back even to the 1800s. It was my only exposure to Bud Fowler before his recent selection to Cooperstown.
I’ve only been to KC as an adult once. It was a business trip circa 2014 but I built in an extra day so I could go to the NeL Museum. Imagine my surprise when I arrived to find that it was closed on Mondays.
You should go to the American Jazz Museum as well. It's next door.
We did. The combo ticket was only a couple of bucks extra. The jazz museum was a little neglected when we there. Several of the exhibits were broken.