Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
CNBC reports the NBA average viewership on opening night to be 2.9 million. However, whether 2.75 or 2.9, the NBA not only bent the knee for the anthem, they also bent the knee to Rachel Maddow.
Many in the sports media assumed that sports fans have been starving for their sports. However, on opening night, the ratings show that cable news has more fans than either pro baseball or basketball. Indeed, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson seem to have more fans than both leagues combined.
Baseball debuted with nearly all players and coacheskneeling in protest during the national anthem. In addition, MLB stenciled Black Lives Matter on pitcher’s mounds at every stadium during opening week.
Another case study in cringeworthy first pitches: Jean-François Kerry reporting for dooty in Fenway Pahhhk in 2004: note the faux pas of wearing a blue shirt on the hallowed ground of Red Sox Nation, pitching from the base of the mound, and casually saluting the soldier/catcher. Outcome as bad as Fauci’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mniJAyhRl8&ab_channel=MLB
And here’s Bubba, pitching at the Cleveland Indians’ home opener in 1994, back when no one complained about sports teams named for Native Americans (or whatever the PC name is now). At least the good ol’ boy pitched from the mound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKn6PZ_TrG4&ab_channel=MLB
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Gerard Van der Leun
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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Another case study in cringeworthy first pitches: Jean-François Kerry reporting for dooty in Fenway Pahhhk in 2004: note the faux pas of wearing a blue shirt on the hallowed ground of Red Sox Nation, pitching from the base of the mound, and casually saluting the soldier/catcher. Outcome as bad as Fauci’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mniJAyhRl8&ab_channel=MLB
And here’s Bubba, pitching at the Cleveland Indians’ home opener in 1994, back when no one complained about sports teams named for Native Americans (or whatever the PC name is now). At least the good ol’ boy pitched from the mound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKn6PZ_TrG4&ab_channel=MLB
Other than the Little League World Series, baseball is dead to me.
Sadly they have ruined hockey as well.