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My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

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rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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Republicans do not trust women.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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World Series, Game 2: Diamondbacks at Rangers (Open Thread)

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Staying neutral as none of my teams are in the game, so the image is from a couple of years ago.  Good representation of the joy of the game.

World Series, Game 2: Diamondbacks at Rangers (Open Thread)

Looks to me like last night’s World Series thread got plenty of action, so I’ll put up posts for all 7 games until / unless participation in the threads drops way off.

I loved going to White Sox games with my Dad when I was a kid.  And on summer nights when baseball was on, we would take our little portable TV out to the roof, set it on a tray, and plug it in through the window to the house.  They are lovely memories, wearing our shorty pajamas on the roof, hanging out with my Dad, after dark, under our little blankies, watching night baseball games.

Totally open thread.

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  1. 1.

    piratedan

    go DBacks, great comeback by the Rangers last night.  A wonderful entertaining game (even if the outcome was not what I would have wished) that had stolen bases, long balls, and good defense.

    Hoping for the same tonight.

  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

    Thank you, WaterGirl, I really appreciate all that you do.

    No interest in World Series, just wanted to thank you.

  6. 6.

    Alison Rose

    Those memories with your dad sound wonderful. What a lovely experience that must have been!

    When I was a kid, we were Oakland A’s fans. (At some point when I was in my late teens/early 20s, we all sort of unspokenly drifted into being SF Giants fans, although we still rooted for the A’s too, except during interleague play.) My favorite baseball-related memory was in 1990, when my mom was flying back to NY for her high school reunion, and my dad and brothers and I were at the airport waiting to watch her plane take off. (The halcyon days before 9/11 when anyone could go to the gate and just hang out.) While we were there, the A’s showed up at the next gate, leaving on a road trip. My brother Jamie and I got paper from a newsstand and went around collecting autographs. McGwire, Canseco, Eckersley, Steinbach, Weiss…it was a great team back them. They were all super friendly with us, probably because we were just kids and weren’t just hoping to make money off of it. The only one who wouldn’t sign was Rickey Henderson, which was a shame, but…I suppose those guys deal with so much of that stuff that sometimes they just don’t have it in them.

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    @WaterGirl: well it did go to the 11th and when you consider the number of pitching changes, that was to be expected. Game went just over 4hrs….

  12. 12.

    raven

    My old man taught in Bellwood/Berkely and would get free ticket to White Sox games for straight A students!

  14. 14.

    Another Scott

    Here’s hoping for a good game for those who watch.

    Meanwhile, … BradDelong.substack.com:

    POSSIBLE COURSE UNIT: High Patriarchy & the History of Underdevelopment

    BRAD DELONG
    OCT 28, 2023

    Should I add this “sociobiology” unit to my classes for next semester? I oscillate between thinking “I am really not the person to teach this” & “but this really, really should be taught”…

    The first segment of the class would orient the class via Alice Evans’s truly excellent overview. The second would consider the tracks that patriarchy has left in our genes, and at what we can guess about the form and degree of the subjection of women (and of low-status or conquered men). The third would try to draw the bidirectional links between patriarchy and economic development. And the fourth would try to keep things real by considering the real but limited power of a feminist under early-modern patriarchy…

    […]

    (Includes a syllabus)

    I’m constantly amazed by the breadth and depth of DeLong’s interests and his absolutely astounding ability to read and digest mountains of information with such ease. And post stuff to his various “too online” haunts nearly every single day.

    That would be an interesting course!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  19. 19.

    wjca

    @piratedan: Game went just over 4hrs….

    Only think how long it would have been, without the pitch clock and other innovations to speed things up.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: Wow. Not surprisingly, I have only seen 3 of those movies.  The Thing, which scared the shit out of us when we watched it.  Psycho, which was when I realized that I did not do horror movies.  And Rosemary’s Baby, which was the end of the  line for me.  I can’t figure out why I watched that one, except that I really liked Mia Farrow.

  21. 21.

    HinTN

    @Alison Rose: My favorite major league baseball memory is my uncle taking me when I was about 12 to see the Braves at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. We got to sit right behind home plate (the stands were mostly empty) and watch Hank Aaron blast a home run. It was great! Who won? Dunno – Braves sucked, so they probably lost. Second favorite memory is visiting my mama when TBS broadcast every game, which she watched. Her running commentary distilled to, “Those stupid Braves!”

  25. 25.

    raven

    @WaterGirl: They crushed the hated Florida Gators to extend their unbeaten streak to 34 games and two national championships. They have been ranked #1 in the nation for 2 years but the conventional wisdom is, when the poll comes out this week, we won’t be ranked #1.

  28. 28.

    piratedan

    for those that follow these things, apparently Matthew Perry (Friends, The Whole Nine Yards) has died @ 54. Drowning.

  29. 29.

    Hoppie

    @HinTN: Crosley Field games for me.  Only later found out what an amazing guy Powel Crosley was, back when Ohio was Edison & Wright brothers country.  Had a Crosley fridge when I lived in Bologna.  One of Crosley’s WLW stations was when I first saw Star Trek.  Funny how many things interconnect.

  31. 31.

    piratedan

    @Hoppie: my first ballgame was at the old RFK stadium, watching the Senators (who’s best player at the time was Frank “Hondo” Howard.

  32. 32.

    Alison Rose

    I’m semi-following the game on the MLB Gameday thing, but it’s super annoying that they have an unnecessary score box over the top of the strike zone graphic. The score and inning are already on the right hand side. There’s no need for this extra box, and there’s no way to get rid of it.

  33. 33.

    wjca

    My first (and only) major league game was when the Giants were first in San Francisco.  (Playing in the old Seals Stadium.)  Don’t remember the game, but I definitely remember the trip home.

    I had gone with my uncle, who was alcoholic and had been soaking up beer thru the whole game.  The drive back across the Bay Bridge was terrifying.  My parents pointed out later that I perhaps should have insisted on driving us.  I was a farm kid, so I knew how; but at age 11 I obviously wasn’t licensed.  Besides, what kid that age is going to seriously dispute with an adult?  Especially when it’s his first ever experience with a drunk.

  39. 39.

    wjca

    Says something that the Rangers’ starter became the first ever to go 6 plus innings in a world series game without striking out a single batter.  I’m guessing that wasn’t how he wanted to get into the record books.

  41. 41.

    wjca

    @piratedan:

    I was particularly taken by the ground ball down the 1st base line, took a bad hop and the 1st baseman had to reverse direction, jump, and bare hand it.  Got the out too.

  42. 42.

    YY_Sima Qian

    As a committed Braves fan (though not to that specific name) since 1991,  when they went from worst to first (& my 1st full year in the US, living in Mississippi then NYC, watching TBS), this season has ended so disappointingly, after such regular season dominance. & to lose to effin’ Bryce Harper & the effin’ Phillies!

    Picture of joyous celebration from 2 years ago is just salt on an open wound!

    Arghh!!!

  43. 43.

    piratedan

    @wjca: it was something else, players diving and making awesome throws almost seems… routine (although we know that they damn well aren’t), but yeah that play by Walker, with the ball skipping off the bag and using his bare hand  to snag the ball all while his body is moving away and then to just nonchalantly toss the ball to the pitcher covering is likely to end up on a highlight reel for decades….

  45. 45.

    S Cerevisiae

    @YY_Sima Qian: long dead thread but my Twins also went worst to first in ‘91 and beat your Braves in the greatest game 7 in World Series history, John Smoltz versus Black Jack Morris, what a duel. Jack would have probably decked Kelly if he would’ve tried to take him out in the 10th, I wish I still had the tape.

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