Barton John Bishoff

Phil Niekro pitched over 200 innings in a season when he was 47.

Phil Niekro didn’t win more than 14 games until he was 30. Still won over 300 games. That’s amazing.

ALCS could be battle of the 1977 expansion teams. Jays vs Mariners.

AI is so gross.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

While there is no prohibition on Chinese ownership in U.S. military contractors like Elon Musk's SpaceX, such investment is heavily regulated and the issue is treated by the U.S. government as a significant national security concern.

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Perfect is subjective, so perfection is not a perfect concept

I'll rephrase:

"Should there be more than one political party in the United States supporting a wide range of different policies?"

It's hard to imagine Trump or any Republican answering YES to this question:

"Should there be more than one political party in the United States?"

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Sure. Except DUH! Trump only said he was going to do all this 70 times during last summer's rallies.

In other words, on two counts, we aren't telling, or maybe even the dog ate our homework.

Both Young Turks and Tucker Carlson have gone down the 9/11 Truther rabbit hole.

Goes to show, no section of the political spectrum is safe from internet-induced insanity.

Ohtani got touched. Wow.

States are another check and balance when the other branches fail.

Mathew Boyd was….not good.

Cleveland gone! Good. They traumatized us this season.

There is legend that Abraham Lincoln once skipped a cabinet meeting to watch the Washington Nationals play the Brooklyn Excelsiors. Brooklyn won. Story unconfirmed.

Baseball records were so poorly kept before 1871 that nobody is sure who was the champion of the 1858 baseball season.

Most say New York Mutuals. Some say Brooklyn Atlantics.

There were no individual stats kept at the time.

Last known survivor of the first season of major league baseball. Played for the Rockford Forest Citys, which was one of the 9 charter teams for the National Association in 1871.

George Bird died in 1940 in Rockford, Illinois. Hit .264 with 5 triples.

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Both my grandmothers had Masters Degrees and were born before 1920. I always liked that. Must have been fairly rare for American women at the time.

I wonder if it would annoy ICE agents more if the protestors yelled loving things at them instead of swear words. And calmly explained why this isn't Constitutional. It would be an interesting experiment.

Every Wednesday, there is a tamale stand in front of our building in Chicago. I always get 2 poblano pepper tamales.

Today was the first day in 2 years he wasn't there. The masked and armed ICE agents has scared away vendors. Tourists usually are in the thousands downtown. Now there are dozens.

That's why Obama 2028 hats were made....oh, right. Nobody is fighting back at all.

Some said Ohtani is a once in a generation superstar. They were wrong.

He's a once in CENTURY superstar.

Painful to see as a White Sox fan. I'm happy for Crochett, but it's a reminder that we can't have nice things. Ugh.

If White Sox draft a great player, we have to ship him to another team. The business model requires mediocrity, not greatness. Soon to change let's hope.

That’s quite a guitar solo on ‘My Sharona’ by The Knack. Berton Averre. Solid work.

That is just weird.

On the first season of Beverly Hillbillies, the actress who played "Granny" was only 3 years older than Jennifer Aniston is right now.

YouTube video by Lyle Ball Most Popular Recording Charts - The 1890s

Pop music of 1895 was far more musically sophisticated than pop music now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Rr...

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Cheap Trick before they were famous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuhG...