As your Transplant Correspondent, and as someone who turned 10 and lived outside Bloomington in the magical year of .388, I am contractually obligated to note that Rod Carew is not only a heart transplant recipient, but a double heart-kidney recipient.
Oh yeah: register to be a donor via ChooseLife.org or your State’s website and tell your family of your intent. You don’t need ‘em when you’re gone!
How dare you question Jete’s defense! His defense was so far ahead of advanced analytics the state department has the WOPR churning away furiously, deep underneath Cheyenne Mountain, working to create a neural network advanced enough to provide the *proper* context in which Jeter’s defense can be evaluated.
Wait, Marvin Miller, Larry Walker, and Ted Simmons were inducted into the Hall of Fame too? Because I just watched the CBS morning show lead in and all they said was Derek Jeter was inducted.
I guess the others weren't worthy of mention, like the warm-up band in a concert review.
I'm between New Liberal and Growth and Opportunity. I'm registered Libertarian and used to be much lower right then I am now. The last 6-8 years of the Republican Party, and also learning a lot more about the United States' history of systemic racism, have made me less economically conservative. I'm still very socially liberal.
One thing I’ve thought about: I think life requires you to change your outlook based on where you’re at. The changes you made to your worldview weren’t because one was right and one was wrong. It was just what you needed in that moment and for that chapter of your life. And that chapter led to the next, and so on.
The Boone comment about Jeter wanting the ball brings to mind the Lasorda story of Pedro Guerrero.
For you youngsters, Guerrero was a fearsome hitter. Powerful, quick wrists, patient. But as a fielder, he was a great hitter.
The Dodgers had great luck for many years making OFs into passible IFs. Russell and Lopes keyed their 70s run. So they tried with Guerrero too, moving him from LF to 3B. It didn’t go well.
Tommy Lasorda had his quirks and issues (see eg his son’s story) but at his best he was a master at positive thinking and preaching that to his team. He worked with Guerrero on his defense constantly.
“So what are you thinking in the field?”
“Don’t hit it to me,” replied Guerrero.
“No, no! You can’t say that. You can be a great fielder, just think you can! Now what are you really thinking?” said the rotund manager.
Well, voting against Jeter could theoretically be defensible if there were ten other guys you wanted to vote for. On the premise of "Jeter's going to make it whether he gets my vote or not".
As a parent it can be very difficult these days to raise kids in a hopeful environment. Between masks/mandates, extreme costs of higher education and not clear paths to careers that actually will hire them and pay them livable wage, parents are often left throwing their hands in the air. We had them, we raised them, and now we release them into this crazy world - hopeful they'll figure it out even if we didn't :) My kids are about the same ages as yours Craig - we hopefully did the best we could!
I came out a Progressive, which is somewhat surprising because I usually land to the right of most progressives I know and people like AOC. But that quiz didn't ask a thing about foreign policy, and I pretty sure that is where I might diverge in real life. Seriously, that quiz is sort of silly because it doesn't ask about not just foreign policy but things like the deficit or infrastructure.
Still annoyed that the HoF ceremony was moved to Rosh Hashanah, meaning observant Yankees fans - and there are a lot of them - couldn't watch the ceremony live. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it feels culturally insensitive.
And it's probably the religious Jew in me, but I have never found anything appealing about existentialism, and it's often struck me as nihilistic in some ways. Not that Chabon and I will ever see eye to eye about anything. He's as far from me as a fellow Jew can get and still be a Jew.
As this space's median cynical attorney, I have to make a damning confession.
Hi. My name is Frank and I have a philosophy Ph.D. I actually wrote my thesis on the Camusian existentialism Chabon is espousing here. I spent most of undergrad & grad school battling Kierkegaard's kids (literally battling them as that was their intramural team). The underlying question of whether your diety or yourself gives meaning to your existence was the center of many a long weekend, but I can definitely say, God cannot give you the ability to play ultimate Frisbee. KIERKEGAARD'S KIDS SUCK. MAYBE GOD CAN FIND MEANING IN GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED! I mean sure, the rest of the department was basically smoking more weed than the average Cypress Hill concert so ultimate was probably an unfair way to judge but you still ate shit, dudes!
My favorite part of last night’s Nats-Barves game was storytelling hour afterwards: Nolin said it was humid and the ball slipped, Freeman said Smith told him Sotos’s plunking was an accident - and Soto said the kiss he blew after his HR was to the fans *behind* the bullpen. And they all lived happily ever after.
PS If you are a Jeter hagiographer, which I’m not, don’t last night results confirm his legend given that the Marlins are the ones currently the beneficiaries of his golden touch? (Ignore those season records behind the curtain.)
PPS Your musings on existentialism hit home for me … it’s been a tough few years at my house and the future is uncertain so I’ve needed a similar mindset. I’m constantly reminding myself of this mantra - which really helps:
Great idea Luis Rojas had letting Diaz pitch to a guy hitting .340 while a guy hitting under .200 waited on deck.
According to the quiz, I'd be a member of the "New Liberal Party", which is basically rebranding establishment Democrats.
It feels correct but also disappointing...
As your Transplant Correspondent, and as someone who turned 10 and lived outside Bloomington in the magical year of .388, I am contractually obligated to note that Rod Carew is not only a heart transplant recipient, but a double heart-kidney recipient.
Oh yeah: register to be a donor via ChooseLife.org or your State’s website and tell your family of your intent. You don’t need ‘em when you’re gone!
How dare you question Jete’s defense! His defense was so far ahead of advanced analytics the state department has the WOPR churning away furiously, deep underneath Cheyenne Mountain, working to create a neural network advanced enough to provide the *proper* context in which Jeter’s defense can be evaluated.
Wait, Marvin Miller, Larry Walker, and Ted Simmons were inducted into the Hall of Fame too? Because I just watched the CBS morning show lead in and all they said was Derek Jeter was inducted.
I guess the others weren't worthy of mention, like the warm-up band in a concert review.
I'm between New Liberal and Growth and Opportunity. I'm registered Libertarian and used to be much lower right then I am now. The last 6-8 years of the Republican Party, and also learning a lot more about the United States' history of systemic racism, have made me less economically conservative. I'm still very socially liberal.
One thing I’ve thought about: I think life requires you to change your outlook based on where you’re at. The changes you made to your worldview weren’t because one was right and one was wrong. It was just what you needed in that moment and for that chapter of your life. And that chapter led to the next, and so on.
The Boone comment about Jeter wanting the ball brings to mind the Lasorda story of Pedro Guerrero.
For you youngsters, Guerrero was a fearsome hitter. Powerful, quick wrists, patient. But as a fielder, he was a great hitter.
The Dodgers had great luck for many years making OFs into passible IFs. Russell and Lopes keyed their 70s run. So they tried with Guerrero too, moving him from LF to 3B. It didn’t go well.
Tommy Lasorda had his quirks and issues (see eg his son’s story) but at his best he was a master at positive thinking and preaching that to his team. He worked with Guerrero on his defense constantly.
“So what are you thinking in the field?”
“Don’t hit it to me,” replied Guerrero.
“No, no! You can’t say that. You can be a great fielder, just think you can! Now what are you really thinking?” said the rotund manager.
“Don’t hit it to Steve Sax either.”
Well, voting against Jeter could theoretically be defensible if there were ten other guys you wanted to vote for. On the premise of "Jeter's going to make it whether he gets my vote or not".
As a parent it can be very difficult these days to raise kids in a hopeful environment. Between masks/mandates, extreme costs of higher education and not clear paths to careers that actually will hire them and pay them livable wage, parents are often left throwing their hands in the air. We had them, we raised them, and now we release them into this crazy world - hopeful they'll figure it out even if we didn't :) My kids are about the same ages as yours Craig - we hopefully did the best we could!
I came out a Progressive, which is somewhat surprising because I usually land to the right of most progressives I know and people like AOC. But that quiz didn't ask a thing about foreign policy, and I pretty sure that is where I might diverge in real life. Seriously, that quiz is sort of silly because it doesn't ask about not just foreign policy but things like the deficit or infrastructure.
Still annoyed that the HoF ceremony was moved to Rosh Hashanah, meaning observant Yankees fans - and there are a lot of them - couldn't watch the ceremony live. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it feels culturally insensitive.
And it's probably the religious Jew in me, but I have never found anything appealing about existentialism, and it's often struck me as nihilistic in some ways. Not that Chabon and I will ever see eye to eye about anything. He's as far from me as a fellow Jew can get and still be a Jew.
As this space's median cynical attorney, I have to make a damning confession.
Hi. My name is Frank and I have a philosophy Ph.D. I actually wrote my thesis on the Camusian existentialism Chabon is espousing here. I spent most of undergrad & grad school battling Kierkegaard's kids (literally battling them as that was their intramural team). The underlying question of whether your diety or yourself gives meaning to your existence was the center of many a long weekend, but I can definitely say, God cannot give you the ability to play ultimate Frisbee. KIERKEGAARD'S KIDS SUCK. MAYBE GOD CAN FIND MEANING IN GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED! I mean sure, the rest of the department was basically smoking more weed than the average Cypress Hill concert so ultimate was probably an unfair way to judge but you still ate shit, dudes!
My favorite part of last night’s Nats-Barves game was storytelling hour afterwards: Nolin said it was humid and the ball slipped, Freeman said Smith told him Sotos’s plunking was an accident - and Soto said the kiss he blew after his HR was to the fans *behind* the bullpen. And they all lived happily ever after.
PS If you are a Jeter hagiographer, which I’m not, don’t last night results confirm his legend given that the Marlins are the ones currently the beneficiaries of his golden touch? (Ignore those season records behind the curtain.)
PPS Your musings on existentialism hit home for me … it’s been a tough few years at my house and the future is uncertain so I’ve needed a similar mindset. I’m constantly reminding myself of this mantra - which really helps:
Can’t fix yesterday
Can’t control tomorrow
Do what you can today
Godspeed and go Nats!
That comment, nearly word for word from Aaron Boone, is what Gavin Lux has said about Dodger pitcher Walker Buhler. It's not always a compliment.
I realize it takes a supreme belief in ones self to achieve at the MLB level, but a few may take it too far.