2016: The Battle of Waterloo with Barry Jacobsen

 

Another anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo with Barry Jacobsen..........https://t.co/E2RLEozC54

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 11, 2016

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1993: The Bee Gees & Blue Island

Back in 1993, The Bee Gees released "Size isn't everything".

Time flies and it's hard to believe that so many years have flown by.

"Blue Island" is a beautiful song recorded in an acoustic style.  We understand that the song was dedicated to the children of Yugoslavia.  By the way, I love The Bee Gees when they do their acoustic medleys.

Click for the song.

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April 2008: Rockies vs Padres in 22 innings!

On this day in 2008, they played 22 innings and the Rockies beat the Padres, 2-1. 

This is like playing one game and a second game with extra innings.  It was the longest Major League game since August 31, 1993.

The box score shows that Willie Taveras was 3 for 10.....everybody else did not do much for their batting average. (Todd Helton was 1 for 9!)

The pitching was great. Peavy threw 8 scoreless innings. The bullpens were almost perfect for both teams.

Moral of the story: You can't run out the clock in baseball or do penalty kicks like soccer. You have to make the last out! In this case, it was not 27 but 66 outs!

We remember Rep. Henry Hyde (1924-2007)

We remember former Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, who was born on this day in 1924.  He died in 2007.

He was one of my favorite members of Congress.

Most people remember Rep. Hyde because of the Clinton impeachment proceedings. Yet, I recall his work against abortion and wonderful command of the English language.

We miss Rep. Hyde!

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I love the "doo wop" chapter of rock music!

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In the 1970's, I took an interest in the "doo wop" chapter of rock music.  It happened because of the American Graffiti soundtrack and a "Sha Na Na" concert that I attended with friends!

I fell in love with the songs and the harmonies.   (It was also the music that some of our parents danced to in the late 1950s!)

"Doo wop" was a great period in the history of rock music.  The format was great songs, super singers, spectacular harmonies and the kind of music that every girl wanted to dance to!  

What more do you need?

A post from 2007 about the shooting at Virginia Tech

A post from 2007:

On Monday morning, many law abiding students in Virginia left their guns in the car. They did not want to violate Virginia Tech's "gun free zone" law.  Unfortunately, a young man named Cho violated the law and entered the school. At the end of the ordeal, 30-plus people, mostly young people, were dead.

What would have stopped Cho? An armed law abiding citizen with an opportunity to defend himself.

Guns protect people, too! This is why I support our right to carry a gun and defend ourselves against the anarchy after Katrina and the mad man who walks into a school.

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April 15, 2007: MLB started the tradition of wearing # 42 for Jackie Robinson

Back in 2007, MLB celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson starting for the Brooklyn Dodgers.  

The Padres played the Dodgers on ESPN.   It was a special night.  Every Dodger was wearing # 42.  They've been wearing # 42 every April 15th since to remember Robinson.

During the game, Jon Miller and Joe Morgan spoke with Mrs. Robinson. She looked great and as upbeat as ever.

Of course, we forget that Jackie died young.  I was reminded of this by watching an old video from the '72 World Series (his last public appearance) and reading Taking a Bat to Prejudice By George Will:

"By 1956, Robinson's last season, he had lost his second-base position to Jim Gilliam, a black man. Robinson died of diabetes-related illnesses in 1972, at 53, the same age Babe Ruth was when he died. Ruth reshaped baseball; Robinson's life still reverberates through all of American life. As Martin Luther King Jr., who was 18 in 1947, was to say, Robinson was "a sit-inner before sit-ins, a freedom rider before freedom rides."

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We remember Willie Davis (1940-2010)

We remember Wille Davis, who was born in Arkansas on this day in 1940.    He died in 2010.

He played most of his career with the LA Dodgers, including trips to the World Series in 1963, 1965 and 1966.      His career numbers were really rather impressive:  .279 average, 2,561 hits, 1,217 runs scored, 396 doubles and 1,053 RBI.

Davis holds a lot of LA Dodgers records:  career hits (2091), runs (1004), triples (110), at bats (7495), total bases (3094) and extra base hits (585).

And he had a 31-game hit streak in 1969, also tops in LA Dodgers history.

Davis was a magnificent outfielder as well and huge fan favorite.

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"Where have all the flowers gone", a gem by The Kingston Trio

Once in a while, we drop the politics and go musical.  Today, I will tell you about one of my very favorite songs.  This is a folk classic written by Pete Seeger and performed by The Kingston Trio:

This song has been recorded by just about everyone. It was also one of the first tunes that I tried playing on the guitar. The big hit version belongs to The Kingston Trio but Peter Paul & Mary also had a very nice arrangement of it.

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April 2007: Mother Nature, April snow and the global warming zealots

A post from April 2007:

A few days ago, the UN released another one of those "end of the world" reports regarding global warming.

I guess that's a little tough to think of global warming these days.

On Saturday night, the Rangers played the Bosox and it was 36 degrees. I don't recall cold temperatures like that at any outdoors sporting event since the infamous snow in Thanksgiving '93 and the Cowboys-Dolphins game!

In fact, I don't recall such a cold day for baseball since I watched a Brewers-White Sox game in April 1970. Back then, my dad, brother, a friend and I went to watch Luis Aparicio at the old County Stadium and froze to death.

So what's going on?  We are having a freaky Easter, at least as far as the temperatures are concerned.

What else is going on? There is a little too much hype about global warming. Al Gore and his pals need to sit back and enjoy the April snow!

Is it time to panic? Not at all.

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