Do they think bombing Iran would have been that easy?

Do they think bombing Iran would have been that easy?:

Let's keep talking and hoping that the Iranian people can remove the regime everyone hates so much.

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June 19, 1972: "The reserve clause" and the story of Curt Flood

Curt Flood was a pretty good baseball player.  He was a career .293 hitter and an important piece of the St Louis power team that won 3 National League pennants in 1964, 1967 and 1968.   

Flood played on a team that included Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Orlando Cepeda, Tim McCarver and quite a few others.

However, he made “labor history” many years ago:

“On June 19, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court rules against Curt Flood in Flood v. Kuhn, denying Flood free agency as a baseball player. Flood was trying to break the reserve clause that had tied baseball players to one franchise since the establishment of professional baseball.”

In other words, he was denied an opportunity to become a free agent and negotiate with several teams.

Eventually, the players’ union won the “free agency” fight in 1976 after 2 strikes and several court appeals.  The net result is that “Free agency” changed the game and blew up the owners’ monopoly.  

Flood never got to make the big bucks but he had a lot to do with the benefits that the players enjoy today.  He was the one who challenged the system and took a bullet for the union.

Flood died in 1997.

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We remember Lou Gehrig (1903-41)

Lou Gehrig was born on this day in 1903 in New York.    We remember Lou because of the consecutive games streak, i.e. 2,130 games from 1925-39.   He was also one of the greatest hitters of all time:  .340 batting average, 494 HR,  1,995 RBI in 2,164 games.    He walked 1,508 times for a .447 on base pct!  

Lou died in 1941.    

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A chat with Frank Burke

 

Guest:  Frank Burke, businessman and author......Trump Derangement Syndrome.  The Iran deal. Soccer comes to North America.....

Desperately looking for clicks

Desperately looking for clicks:

The latest Acosta-ism is perhaps the dumbest of all.

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Growing up with CCR on the radio!

Back in March 1969, The Beatles were still enjoying the success of the "White Album".

The Rolling Stones had released "Beggar's Banquet", one of their best LPs.   

Later in the summer of 1969, they'd release "Honky Tonk Women", one of their best songs ever.

The Bee Gees were about to release "Odessa", a great album that included "First of May" and the lovely title song.

Add Creedence Clearwater Revival to the radio playlist. Everybody called them CCR because their name was too long!

CCR was "John Fogerty--lead guitar and vocals
(brother) Tom Fogerty--guitar
Stu Cook--bass, and
Doug Clifford--drums".

The band's songs were written by band leader John Fogerty.

Their sound was their sound. You could always tell that it was John Fogerty's vocals and CCR's sound.

In the spring and early summer of 1969, CCR started a long streak of hit songs.    It culminated with "Cosmo's Factory", one of my favorite rock LP's.

"Proud Mary" was a song about going up and down on The Mississippi River. I always think of this song when I cross the river.

It was also the song that put CCR on the top of the charts. It was a very long "stay" because CCR became a very popular band.

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Happy # 84 to Paul McCartney

We remind you today that Paul McCartney was born on this day in 1942.    

I am not sure what Paul is doing these days.  He may be touring but I am not sure about it.

We do wish Paul a happy birthday.     He is my favorite English speaking pop songwriter.  

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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.

 

Guest:   Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.    Let's talk about the new Iran deal and what happens next............

The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda

 

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Talarico no Lone Ranger on law and order

Talarico no Lone Ranger on law and order:

Does Talarico sound like a law-and-order Democrat?

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There must be an election coming up soon, because Texas Democrats are suddenly talking about Biden's border chaos. They remained silent for years, and now they are criticizing open borders.

Let's talk about James Talarico, who is now calling himself a law-and-order Democrat. Unfortunately, the whole thing does not add up. Just listen to what he said not long ago via Joseph Chalfant:

For Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico, the November midterms are nothing but a campaign to moderate his stance on a policy issue that Texans hold dearly: immigration. His long, radical history will make that herculean task nearly impossible.

Talarico’s about-face on the issue came one week ago after the candidate participated in a softball interview overflowing with flip-flops from his progressive past. One of the most notable instances of him retreating from his progressive priors came when he declared himself a “border security Democrat” who had “called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border.”

Talarico’s statement was nothing less than a bald-faced lie. Fox News asked the Talarico campaign repeatedly whether or not they could produce any evidence that he had ever made a statement condemning Biden’s border disaster and were unable to. The only Democrat he seems to have ever critiqued for their border policy was President Barack Obama, whom he labeled the “Deporter-in-Chief” because he believed Obama to be too conservative on the issue.

Any evidence of comments on Biden's border chaos? We are waiting. This interview was a softball job in which the reporter did not follow up or force the candidate to produce any evidence, video, or speech before the Texas House, criticizing the Biden border policy.

At the same time, James Talarico knows that his soft on illegal immigration talk is a loser and is desperately trying to change his image. I don't believe that he will succeed, but he will try. Let's remind the voters that the candidate recently called ICE a “secret police force that is terrorizing communities” and called for a “tearing down” of the agency, and attacked border wall bills."

Does that sound like a law-and-order Democrat? I don't think so.

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