There’s a lot of humbug garbage in here about Springer being nice to this girl to “redeem” himself and so forth, but my God, years ago he volunteered to wear a microphone to help stutterers have courage. Get hold of yourselves.
Signs are stolen in baseball every single day. By players and teams you like. Don't get caught, and don't use cameras. What Houston did was wrong. The people who brought the cameras in should get the worst of it. It's wrong they got a slap on the wrist.
But all this chest-beating about stolen signs like it's never happened before or merits the death penalty is tiresome.
When Moe Berg played at Princeton he would often set the signs in Latin or Greek.
But what if the other side knew Latin or Greek?
"Sanskrit."
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Anyway, Bauer has “blocked” our messages for years. As I recall I merely said he’s not the brilliant misunderstood character the press would have. That’s Steve Carlton, who might be off-putting but he’s not cruel. You get the sense his brain is too big. Bauer is an asshole.
And that’s fine, to the point nobody draws blood. The world is full of assholes. Just don’t try to dress one up as Socrates to sell papers.
If Bauer is not suspended by this afternoon, Manfred is trying to divide the union.
President Nixon was pleased to attend the issuing of the Yogi Berra stamp @YogiBerraMuseum today. He admires the museum’s devotion not to statistics but to character, education, perseverence, civil rights, and sports as a force for good. - RZ
He notes the museum is over 20 years old, and Mr. Giuliani’s appearance on the donor wall is not their fault. - RZ
One of the few boasts the museum makes is reminding the public that Berra not only caught Don Larsen in the ‘56 Series, he hit .360, with two home runs in Game 7.
It's true the people here don't as a group reflect the voter at home. But saying the results in New York are a lesson about how to campaign in Michigan is dumb as hell.
As the country goes New York is mostly far to the left. They are concerned about crime. There were too many candidates, all substandard. And in a different system, Adams would likely be in a hard runoff against Wiley.
Lander, the new comptroller, is as left as they come. He ran a really smart campaign and won across the board citywide. Maybe he was elected as a check to Adams, maybe people just like him more.
“Spider Tack” is not a tool of baseball such as rosin, sunscreen, or pine tar, and should as such be banned. In order to ban it, though, pitchers will be tossed for breathing on the ball, and that will lead to a lot of chaos.
The league didn’t just discover pitchers are using glue. They should have banned it outright. They didn’t, of course, because it was good for ratings. Then it went too far. Where have we heard this before?
Now you’ll have balls flying at heads and good honest pitchers getting tossed on hot days.
I don’t want to hit this person. I don’t. Their heart is in the right place. There are others who thought of Rubio as gifted. But this was entirely a creation of the press. I myself was interested in him based on that. Experience changed it at once.
Rubio memorizes half a dozen key phrases from the book and squints hard in hopes you’ll believe it changed his life. His entire career has been marked by laziness, greed, and fear of not being on the government purse.
Rubio is stupid in the manner of that fellow in your office who gossips and plays golf all the time and you’re not really sure what he does. He’s there because he believes in his own importance and wants it more than others. Which is a lot. But it’s not intelligence.