"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." -Ted Williams
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Santo Revisited, Revisited
Nice going guys! I guess you 25 who didn't vote for Ron Santo feel much better about yourselves now. You must be much prouder of your Hall membership for keeping Santo waiting. Shame on each of you!
This blog constitutes my foolishness. It is not a democracy. If you don't agree with the perspective, sense of humor, sensibility or lack thereof, that's ok. You're still welcome. If it bugs you beyond that, go get your own blog. Your feelings are your responsibility, and yours alone. I have to manage mine. I have no time or interest for managing yours. I'm out of that business.
Truth
"Do not attribute to malice that which can best be attributed to stupidity." -unattributed quote, cited by Roger Ebert on Twitter, 3-15-2011
"The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them. Even then, the truths to which they testify come wrapped in a nearly invisible filament of dissembling, deception, and duplicity. The exercise of power necessarily involves manipulation and is antithetical to candor." -Andrew Bacevich
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." -Sherlock Holmes
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." -Tom Smothers
"This old man is like a child, he doesn't have the sense for anything more than serving in a church." -K.
"The Horror. The Horror." -Col. Kurtz
"Yo Gabba Gabba!" -DJ Lance Rock
"Never tell anyone outside the family what you are thinking again." -Don Vito Corleone
"It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business." -Michael Corleone
"When you had Dickinson, you didn't need anybody else."-Bob Dylan
"I'm just dead, I'm not gone." -James Luther Dickinson
"World Boogie is Coming!" -JLD
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." -Paul Valery
"Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability." -William Sloane Coffin
"Forget it Donny, you're out of your element." -Walter Sobchak
"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." -Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"The Dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals." -The Stranger
"Fear is just another word for ignorance." -HST
"That rug really tied the room together." -The Dude
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." -Peter Clemenza
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself." -EM Cioran
An escapee from Organized Religion, father of four, husband of a patient woman, I am fortunate to enjoy the most peculiar and best family on earth, and have had a lot more fun as a baseball fan since 2004, as I am a dorky, card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation.
I still treasure the moment of joy when "There's a ground ball stabbed by Foulke. He has it. He underhands to first, and the Boston Red Sox are the World Champions. For the first time in 86 years, the Red Sox are baseball's World Champions!" (Thank you, Joe Castiglione!)
I believe that should there ever be a need to expand Mount Rushmore into a quintet of heroes, Big Papi would be an excellent candidate for inclusion.
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