Make Opening Day a National Holiday

One friend had a ‘72 Chevelle that he and his dad fixed up. It was beautiful. If there was a girl magnet, that was it.

After a lot of thought, a detached garage is the way to go.

A buddy’s parents got him an ‘87 Mustang. Ugliest insult to the Mustang. Thing was garbage. Of course, it was 1994.

Car ports are making a comeback. You could hang tarp on the sides to protect against the elements. I’m sure she’d be cool with it.

My first car was an ‘88 Chevy Celebrity station wagon. Bought it from my grandma for $1. That thing was a beast. If you mounted a gun on it I think it would have survived the Battle of Kursk. Strangely, sometimes I miss it. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Dad had a trans am when I was born (1978). It disappeared before too long. I’m not saying it was the reason they split up, but I’m open to the idea.

Praying he’s a fan of the comics.

I’m still easily triggered by mention of the 2004 WS.

Yes. You can be the best team in the regular season and fall flat on your face in the playoffs. It happens. It’s baseball. And it sucks if it’s your club.

Ace Frehley, KISS Co-Founder & Guitar Hero, Dies at 74 Ace Frehley, the founding guitarist of KISS known for his Spaceman persona, has died at age 74.

Damn. RIP.

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The best part is that Matheny hadn’t even gone over the edge yet. Paranoid Mike, who saw enemies all around him, was still in the future.

Kind of a going concern from the Battle of Edgehill on (Marlborough’s time being the exception).

The simplest policy alternative that should unite libs and libertarians. Only statist pricks on both the right and left see its value.

Power is one hell of an aphrodisiac. Most folks would be content to play golf and spoil their grandkids.

One thing that I will be looking for in Ken Burns’s new film on the Revolution is his how he treats Loyalists. Will they be one dimensional characters? A foil for the heroic rebels? How he frames this crucial constituency—and whether he does so with empathy and respect—will be crucial to the story.

Watching the Royal Armouries video on the Civil Wars, and it’s obvious our host really enjoyed dressing up like a musketeer. I can’t blame him.

I find it deeply disturbing, but not surprising, that Mike Schildt cited “death threats from strangers” arising from the explosion of online sports gambling, as a major source of his stress and anxiety this season.

I’ll say it again: how we reacted to 9/11 laid the groundwork for this moment. Trump isn’t the cause. He was just unscrupulous enough to take advantage of it.

I’m not sure that I would give Joe sole credit for bylines becoming commonplace in American journalism, but the practice did catch on with other commands as well. At to whether or not it improved the quality of coverage is a matter for debate.

The only positive contribution that the U.S. military has made to the press was indirect: Joe Hooker requiring all reporting covering the Army of the Potomac to feature the name of the author, not a pseudonym, so that he could easily identify journos that pissed him off and ban them from the army.

I’m just jealous of dad’s sweet brick bbq setup. My great uncle had one. So much classier than a grill.

“Fall classic” dates to the turn of the 20th century, but wasn’t exclusively applied to baseball. That baseball calls its championship series the “world series” was a wry bit of marketing to gin up interest in the game in its earliest years.

You say you want to bring local PD and residents together?

Finally getting around to reading my great aunt’s thesis. It’s been a while. 😬

70 y/o white dudes in the U.S. and UK who really do believe they fought in the war. Just ask them.

The allure of total war as a panacea for your problems. The only issue is that if your historical reference point is “the last war we won,” you’re still on the wrong foot.

It’s almost as if training appropriate to the mission matters.

Dude is so dialed in that he can’t turn it off. That’s toxic.

Remember: this is “good” for the game.

Excellent insight from Bernie (as always). #STLCards