Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Huge “Thank You!” to @mattmaldre for pointing out that the Beckett Baseball magazines (and other sports) are available through the Libby app that comes with my library card.

Support your public library folks, they are awesome!

@mattmaldre

Holy crap, this is awesome! Thanks for the tip, I never thought to check!

Honestly, I saw the Pittsburgh/Cleveland square and thought, “Blyleven’s too obvious.”

Then I thought, “Victor Cruz.”

Then I thought, “Who the hell is Victor Cruz?” and looked him up. Sure enough, I know I played APBA with his ‘79 and ‘81 cards. The brain is weird. Simultaneously remembered and didn’t remember Victor Cruz.

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The entire 300HR row is my Reds nonsense. So are Mat Latos and Reggie Jefferson (though he’s also Tallahassee nonsense).

Rico Carty is a favorite.

For Marlins, I was relieved to remember Cangelosi from the ‘97 Champions. Destrade was a big deal for the ‘93 expansion team—a Cuban-born slugger 1B who’d raked in Japan coming to Miami.

Cruz is an APBA memory: Cleveland in 79, Pirates in 81.

@fesshole

Not really an Adam Sandler fan, but this bit from Little Nicky is on point.

@BonehouseWasps @fesshole But have you considered maybe it’s just 5 or 6 guys who are really persistent?

@shig

This reminds me of the Lewis Black bit about electing the corpse of Ronald Reagan as president to show how insane we are. (Back when there was doubt, I guess?)

@shig

Dept. of Defense announced they were planning to change the name of the U.S.S. Harvey Milk; and that they were intentionally announcing this during Pride month.

U.S.S. Hannibal Leckter
U.S.S. Jeffry Dahmer
U.S.S. Menendez Brother
U.S.S. Other Menendez Brother
U.S.S. Clown Painter Guy
U.S.S. Fuck You, That’s Why!

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It’s like the platonic ideal of my grids:

1) Lots of Reds nonsense (5 guys—Lum, Duvall, Rijo, Eric Davis, and Joe Morgan)

2) Frequent guest stars Bobo Newsome, Frank Tanana, & Rico Carty—sadly no room for Gary Redus (or Charo, or Bert Convy)

3) Random 1980s guy—in this case Graig Nettles, who has a major league brother, which is another of my things

Cheers!

@beisbolcards

Well, they play at my Cincinnati Reds from July 11-13, so that should help them.

So the Colorado Rockies are 10-50. That puts them exactly on pace to finish 27-135.

27-135.

The 1962 New York Mets went a relatively glorious 40-120; 14 games better. You’d need to go back to the infamous 1899 Cleveland Spiders to find a worse team. They went 20-134 after the owner transferred all their good players to his other team in St. Louis.

@shig
That was a good read, thanks for putting it in front of me.

@alanferrier

Starmer rules out Labour winning next election.

@seaks You’re still have my trouble too?

I knew that Jim Delahanty photo reminded me of someone:

The grid screwed me again. I entered 8 names. Don’t understand what happened. I think it’s something with my phone.

Anyway, here is what I entered. Assume Reggie Smith I guess for center square? Whatever.

Did feel weird using Fernando Rodney. Couldn’t get him out of my mind. Feel like I’m trespassing on @seaks front lawn.

Shoutout to Arquimedez Pozo.

@shig

It’s almost like Hamas and the current Israeli government are both run by horrible people who should share adjoining cells in The Hague. But we have to pick a side, right? That’s how politics and international relations work, right?

Keebler Elf on a Shelf

#CookieAndBiscuitABook
#HashTagGames

@seaks

You win Immaculate Grid today!

Yo La Tengo can’t be topped.