will be remembered
for his gentle, loving, and
generous nature.
Don’t know who Ernie was.
I would be thrilled, at least as much I as I can care, if my obituary said this about me.
Category: These United States
October 15 – information age
information age
deliberate ignorance
difficult to grasp
Ignorantia juris non excusat or “ignorance of the law excuses not”.
I am not trying to indict poltical leaders or officials but the rest of us.
The information is out there.
In the noise.
In the clutter.
Behind the tweets.
Under the posts.
Next to the blogs.
No one is going to put together a single story or newscast that you can sit back and read or watch.
But it is out there.
October 13 – post game interviews
post game interviews
I listen and believe them,
though I know they lie
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!
Michigan Football Coach after win over Illinois on October 12, 2019.
A lot of guys played extremely well, a lot of guys toughed it up.
I trust and believe in our team, and we saw the evidence today. Very proud of that fact, and of our guys. I think there’s a callous that’s been built there and a toughness that has been born out of that, and that bodes well for our team.
So I thought those guys rose to the challenge today.
We’ll see how we came out of this game. We’ll find out when we find out.
Interview practice from the the movie, Bull Durham:
Crash: “You got something to write with? Good. It’s time to work on your interviews.”
Nuke: “My interviews? What do I got to do?”
Crash: “You’re gonna have to learn your cliches. You’re going to have to study them. You’re going to have to know them. They’re your friends. Write this down. We’ve got to play them one day at a time.”
Nuke: “Got to play … that’s pretty boring, you know?”
Crash: “Of course it’s boring. That’s the point. Write it down!”
Nuke: “One day at a time …”
Crash: “I’m just happy to be here. Hope I can help the ball club. I know. Write it down. I just want to give it my best shot, and the good Lord willing, things will work out.”
Nuke: “Good Lord willing …”
Crash: “Things will work out.”
Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutored youth,
Unlearnèd in the world’s false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told.
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
October 11 – who speaks for reason?
who speaks for reason?
reason has no natural voice
social media, not!
“… in the first place reason has no natural voice. Mob orators of the sort we have, the Boris Johnson sort, do not speak reason. When you get into that category, your task is to fire up the people with nostalgia, with anger. It’s almost unbelievable that these people of the establishment – Farage, for instance – are speaking of betrayal: ‘I’m betrayed by parliament, betrayed by government – I’m speaking to you as a betrayed person, and I’m a man of the people like you.’”
John le Carré
‘My ties to England have loosened’: John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit
John Banville – The Guardian Oct 11, 2019
October 10 – 10 run 1st inning?
10 run 1st inning?
grand slam in the 10th? You choose …
zugzwang at the park!
Atlanta fans for once did not wake to the news that, once again, their team did not go down in flames. (Just what did Sherman start here?)
Because the Braves played at 4:30PM and it was all over by 5PM and Atlanta fans went to bed knowing what had happened to yet another pretty good baseball team.
Later that night, the Los Angeles Dodgers lost in the 10th inning on a grand slam home run.
10 runs in the first inning or a grand slam in the 10th.
Nice symmetry of the number 10 and it is October 10th today.
This was also the 10th consecutive playoff series loss for the Braves.
Recently I have been made aware of the chess term, zugzwang.
A situation in which the obligation to make a move in one’s turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.
In other words, you have to make a move but all moves are bad and most likely make the situation worse.
So many times in life fit in with zugzwang.
Almost of all sports is.
Tony La Russa once said, “There isn’t much I can do to win a ball game but there are a lot of things I can do to lose a ballgame.”
Or as one writer put it (it may have been Roger Angell), “Go to a bullpen filled with convicted arsonists?”
Zugzwang.
So to the original question.
10 runs in the 1st?
4 runs in the 10th?
Both win or go home games.
Would you rather have it be over almost before it started?
Or snatch victory from the jaws of defeat?
Give up 10 runs in the 1st?
Are you kidding?
On five hits?
Is that even possible?
Who does that?
Who can do that?
Well, besides any Atlanta team.
My Dad often said he liked his team to get a big lead and steadily pull away.
Or a grand slam in the 10th after being up 3 to 1 earlier in the game.
That seems to have happened more often.
The 10 runs in the 1st was a new record.
A record one team wants no part of.
That’s what nightmares are made of.
A grand slam in the 10th.
That’s what dreams are made of.
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