Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Uni Watch: Lukas: Hooked up
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posted on January 15, 2013 at 05:51 PM by Greg Franklin to history, memorabilia, orioles, special topics, uniforms
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These pics of the greatest Mazzone in Oriole history should hook you.
Read More...Reader Bruce Menard recently clued me in regarding a chapter from fairly recent MLB history that I hadn’t been aware of. It involves a guy named Jay Mazzone, who worked as a batboy for the Orioles in the late 1960s. The unusual thing about Mazzone is that he’d lost his hands when he was two years old after his snow suit caught on fire, so he used metal hooks in lieu of fingers. This certainly made him an unusual sight on ...
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How strong would the storm have to be over Baltimore for John Sterling and Michael Kay to be swept away?
-- MWE
Imma be pissed if all we get is drizzle.
Well it got my race tomorrow postponed until late September, so I'm none too happy about that.
should be fun.
Hope this whole Irene thing turns out to be no big deal.
I remember Manhattan being largely deserted during the work week for some early 80's Hurricane scare, and walking around in some medium winds and light rain, enjoying the emptiness.
Here's hoping that's all you get this time, as well.
-- MWE"
Hope that holds true. We were thinking of finding a pet friendly hotel in WVA for the weekend, but decided to stick it out in the Baltimore area.
Ummm .... what???
I think the Katrina thread was some of the best "work" ever achieved on BTF. I remember NTN God was reporting things on police scannners left and right that weren't being reported anywhere else by the media and countless others chimed in with info that wasn't found anywhere else. The fact that the hurricane was physically destroying the city was reported by the media. The complete breakdown in social order was reported through the various BTF posts much better than any big media source was reporting. It wasn't the first time, but it was one of the more pronounced times where I was much more aware of what was transpiring than my friends and family were due to this "silly little baseball site".
And from then on, they'll play GBA twice during every seventh-inning stretch.
I think/hope Bloomberg will be found to have overplayed his evacuation hand, but that beats the extreme alternative by a lot. #fingerscrossed
Red Cross/Katrina
I think the Katrina thread was some of the best "work" ever achieved on BTF. I remember NTN God was reporting things on police scannners left and right that weren't being reported anywhere else by the media and countless others chimed in with info that wasn't found anywhere else. The fact that the hurricane was physically destroying the city was reported by the media. The complete breakdown in social order was reported through the various BTF posts much better than any big media source was reporting. It wasn't the first time, but it was one of the more pronounced times where I was much more aware of what was transpiring than my friends and family were due to this "silly little baseball site".
Agreed completely -- you said this much better than I could. I was just as confused by Eamus's post. Eamus, please explain what you were getting at.
I hope so too. My daughter is a block away from the evacuation zone. She's also got plenty of booze, food and water.
I'm personally wondering what kind of vermin will come up from the sewers if NYC gets too much water. I personally can't wait to see the sewer alligators make there way to city streets.
ahhh--I lived in NYC for many years--the sewer gators are exaggerated (none are more than 7 feet--8 tops)
To be fair, I guess he's going after FEMA and I have no real love for FEMA. But NOAA is getting their funding cut too.
They're also much friendlier than you might expect. I had one let me pet it a little bit.
That's the thing about Ron Paul. He's not afraid to completely throw historical precedent out the window. Gotta respect that.
When cavemen rode dinosaurs and Rick Santorum was still a senator, he tried very hard to kill the National Weather Service. Fortunately, he failed.
By contrast, the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Mississippi River "Great Flood" of 1927 featured a lot of federal involvement, especially from two departments run by future conservative Presidents: William Taft's War Department in 1906 and Herbert Hoover's Commerce Department in 1927.
I don't know what lessons to draw from that. The rebuilding of Galveston was a far-sighted, ingenious success, full of local thinking and private-public partnerships. But the responses to 1906 and 1927 were model national efforts, characterized by energy and activity. One thing I would bet is that Ron Paul has no real idea what he's talking about. He just assumes that "back when" the federal government didn't do anything, and it was a kind of pre-New-Deal Eden in the land.
A**hole. That kind of attitude is not helpful, and actually counterproductive.
That was because Pennsylvania's own Accuweather was one of the corporations that sponsored him, not because of any sort of principle.
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