As I never tire of repeating:

- Ryan used that move to brand recalcitrant cows

- At 5-6 seconds you see Ventura's soul leave his body

- When Ventura managed the Rangers played it before White Sox games but Ryan asked them to stop
Ryan went 7; 5 K, 3 H, 2 BB, 2 R, 1 ER.
I would only add the camera angle loses that Ryan doesn't flinch at all. There is no surprise, no words, no appeal. He drops his glove and is ready to go.
Like Sam Houston and Jim Bowie, Nolan Ryan is never going to die. I think those of you from Texas understand what I mean. That's what he is.
Ryan himself takes pains to say Ventura was a good player and manager—I might add he never had ownership support—and he’s a good man. They are friends and have signed things for charity, etc.

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5 Aug
J.R. Richard has died. I’m sorry to hear it. When he was young, before the stroke, he was absolutely the equal of Nolan Ryan. Maybe surpassed him. When Ryan and Richard pitched on successive days you can’t imagine the despair among professional ballplayers.
As Richard began to show warning signs of the stroke he was accused of malingering and felt he had to power through. He did, and collapsed on the field. This is because he was black. That mustn’t be forgotten.
The team’s treatment of him through his illness and subsequent homelessness is one of the worst abominations in baseball. That he was able to battle back and make peace with the team, become a minister for baseball as well as a man of God, is a testament to who J.R. Richard was.
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If Houston's title is allegedly in question, so is theirs, and they want to another to put it down.
A short season and a tournament-style playoff is its own thing entirely. I don't want to hear it.
I don't say Los Angeles wasn't the best team last season. I say last season is anomalous across the board.
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He is calm, witty, and he knows his baseball. He’s absolutely himself. You can’t teach that. If they don’t throw money at a young black Phillies fan who’s a natural broadcaster, they’re nuts.
The kid's name is Josh Scott. He is there because he and his father, huge Phillies fans, caught a Freddie Freeman home run in Atlanta and gave the ball to a Braves fan. They live in North Carolina. But the Phillies really ought to work something out.
Not in a novelty way. I'm serious. The kid talks baseball better than anyone in the television booth.
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Lyndon Johnson was afraid of Bobby. Johnson wasn't afraid of anybody.
I don't mean to say Bobby was cold in the sense of defect, either. He was cold as only one who knows the world can be. He knew Shakespeare, he knew the Greeks. He understood the world is dark and complicated and you need coldness to survive.
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Regarding Milley and January 6, it disturbs me for a number of reasons beyond the obvious. First, this is not just the military sounding the alarm about what happened, but what is going to happen. Fully two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede, for God's sake.
I understand why they sat on it. They dodged the bullet, and to say more at the time would have looked like a military coup. But the military was in a nearly untenable position, and they see conditions developing that will easily put them back there, or worse.
Equally disturbing is it won't amount to much. Four years of "Reichstag" this, "death squads" that. People are tired. They reassure themselves with "the former guy" and all that stuff. But this is actually serious in the way so many people pretended other things were.
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But all this chest-beating about stolen signs like it's never happened before or merits the death penalty is tiresome.
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