“Sir, according to your wife’s testimony, when visiting your apartment the children are quote ‘forced to sleep in drawers’ and quote ‘fall aseep to records by Swedish House Mafia.’ Is that correct?”
“Your honor, I submit an interview the defendant gave on February 6, 2016...”
Price wrote these for some years, as you know. Right up to the end. The kids we have now are working out, I think.
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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.
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.
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.
I have not seen the series. But Bobby was the coldest man I ever met. Mrs. Longworth said he should have been a Jesuit in the 15th century, burning witches. I agree. He was not the best politician of the Kennedy brothers. That was Teddy. But he was the most effective.
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.