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Friday, May 24, 2024
And the taxpayers all went out of Massachusetts
And the taxpayers all went out of Massachusetts: Let’s add another state to the list of blues losing people and taxpayers. It’s Massachusetts, or one of the original 13, but another one bites the dust, proving the reality that going blue has consequences.
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And the taxpayers all went out of Massachusetts - American Thinker https://t.co/Ks2oMRaJgT
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) May 24, 2024
1935: Phillies vs Reds and the first night game
Most major league games are now played at night, including the post season. Afternoon baseball is primarily on weekends or opening day.
The first night game was on this day in 1935: The Reds beat the Phillies 2-1 before 25,000 happy home team fans!
Night baseball became a reality in the 1940s.
The first World Series night game was game 4 in 1971 when the Pirates beat the Orioles. A few years later, millions watched the 1975 Boston-Cincinnati series. Last, but not least, the Cubs did not turn on the lights until 1988!
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Happy # 78 Ellie RodrÃguez
Ellie broke with the Yankees in 1968 but could not compete with Thurman Munson.
A year later, he was traded to the expansion Royals and made the 1969 AL All Star team.
In 1971, he was traded to Milwaukee and had some good years: .255 in 325 games plus another All Star team in 1972. Ellie was traded to make room for Darrell Porter.
He retired after the 1976 season: .245 over 775 games. He threw out 38% of runners trying to steal.
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Bonnie & Clyde: Many decades and people still interested
In 1967, the “Bonnie and Clyde” movie introduced millions to the couple and their flawed story.
It was many years ago that Bonnie & Clyde met the law for the last time in Louisiana.
Around Dallas, there is a lot of interest about the anniversary, as recently reported by The Dallas Morning News:
“Seven miles down the road, two crooks died a long time ago.For most other criminals, that could have been the end of the story. But Bonnie and Clyde live on. In the imagination of the public, Hollywood, haunted descendants and here on Main Street in this tiny town about an hour east of Shreveport; the legacy of their two-year crime spree endures 80 years after their bloody deaths on May 23, 1934.It is here in this northern Louisiana town of 979 that the son of Ted Hinton, a Dallas County deputy who was in the posse that killed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, has set up shop to tell the story of how the couple and their gang lived and died. His Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum shows how the two robbed banks and killed people, loved each other and died young.Boots Hinton, the son, was born not long before his father helped kill the two outlaws on State Highway 154, which remains remote today.He said there are two big reasons people latch on to Bonnie and Clyde.“One, it’s a love story that would put Romeo and Juliet to shame,” he said.“The other is guts and bullets — the blood.””
I just hope that people remember that Bonnie & Clyde were actually ruthless killers. They shot and killed law enforcement officers, as well as innocent people or bystanders. It’s hard to see anything romantic about that but the young couple still generates a lot of curiosity.
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Happy # 83 Bob Dylan
We remember Robert Zimmerman, who was born in Minnesota on this day in 1941. We know him as Bob Dylan.
As far as I know, Dylan has been quiet lately. He seems to be enjoying retirement and having the rest of us listen to his songs. (By the way, May is another anniversary of Dylan’s second album, the one that included “Blowing in the wind.”)
Dylan did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. Eventually, he accepted the award, but his trip to Stockholm was typical Dylan, as I recall reading in The New Yorker:
When he finally showed up in Stockholm, during an April tour stop, to receive the Nobel medal, he looked more like a cat burglar than a laureate, sneaking into the private prize hand-off through a service door, wearing a hoodie, leather jacket, and gloves.
Maybe he should have done a solo rendition of “Boots of Spanish Leather” with that outfit! On second thought, maybe he should have asked Joan Baez to do it.
I never really liked Dylan singing his own songs, although “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Like a Rolling Stone” are obvious exceptions. Nobody can sing those two songs like Dylan. I love The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man,” but Dylan is Dylan.
Nevertheless, I was one of those who loved others singing Dylan songs. Nobody did it better than Peter Paul and Mary and Joan Baez.
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