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Saturday, July 12, 2025
The kids are not okay
The kids are not okay: As you've probably heard, ICE conducted a raid in a California cannabis farm. The results are rather dramatic, as reported by local media:
Federal immigration agents, assisted by members of the National Guard, carried out raids at ...
July 12, 1979: Disco and everything went crazy at the old Comiskey Park
On this day in 1979, the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers were scheduled to play a doubleheader. The Chisox needed a promotion and they got one by joining forces with Chicago DJ Steve Dahl, one of many rock fans who resented how disco threatened rock ’n’ roll.
The promotion called for fans to blow up disco vinyl 45s and LPs between games.
What could possible go wrong? Everything did, as Joe LaPointe reminded us in his 2009 recalling the 30th anniversary of the event:
During the first game, the stands filled with Dahl’s listeners, who got in for 98 cents if they brought a record to be destroyed.By the way, I had tickets to the game. My senior partner took me along on a business trip to Chicago. He knew that I was a baseball fan and would enjoy the game.
Alan Trammell, then the Tigers’ shortstop, said, “I remember from the get-go, it wasn’t a normal crowd.” Trammell, now a Cubs coach, said umpires ordered the grounds crew to clear debris from the warning track between innings of the first game.
“The outfielders were definitely a little scared,” Trammell said. Ron LeFlore, a former convict, played center field for Detroit, “and Ronnie wasn’t usually afraid of anything.”
The Sox did not expect such a large crowd, which was officially announced as 47,795. Mike Veeck said that it was really closer to 60,000 and that he had hired security for 35,000. “That’s what we thought attendance would be,” Veeck said.
Staub said: “People brought ladders. They were climbing in from the outside. It was like a riot.”
Veeck ordered yellow-jacketed guards to go outside to stop fans from crashing the gates.
That allowed the spectators inside the ballpark to storm the field without much resistance. Jack Morris, a Tigers pitcher, recalled “whiskey bottles were flying over our dugout” after Detroit won the first game, 4-1.
Then Dahl blew up the records.
“And then all hell broke loose,” Morris said. “They charged the field and started tearing up the pitching rubber and the dirt. They took the bases. They started digging out home plate.”
We took a morning flight, landed at Midway, went to the hotel and headed for the park.
We never got in. We were greeted by police officers who were telling fans to go home because the game was cancelled.
We went back to the hotel and saw the chaos on TV.
A couple of months later, we got a letter from Mr. Veeck along with a refund check.
My guess is that the White Sox never had another promotion like that again.
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We burned disco records not neighborhoods back in 1979
As urban areas recover from the riots and looting of 2020, we are reminded that young people got angry at different things 41 years ago.
By the summer of 1979, disco music saturated U.S. radio stations. Everybody was doing disco, from Paul McCartney’s “Goodnight Tonight” to Frankie Avalon’s “Venus.” Frankly, it was probably too much disco!
On this day in 1979, the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers were scheduled to play a double-header at the old Comiskey Park. The Sox desperately needed a promotion, and they got one by joining forces with Chicago DJ Steve Dahl, one of many rock fans who resented how disco threatened rock ‘n’ roll.
The promotion called for fans to blow up disco vinyl 45s and LPs between games.
What could possibly go wrong? Everything did, as we see in this story at Rolling Stone:
The game sold out, but thousands of additional ticketless fans showed up to voice their hatred of an entire genre.Many stormed the gates and filled the ballpark way beyond capacity, setting up a dangerous situation when Dahl blew up the disco records.Fans threw firecrackers and bottles onto the field, eventually storming onto it, starting fires and battling with police.The second game was eventually called off amidst the madness.For many fans of traditional rock that had little love for disco, the incident was nothing more than a bunch of drunks having harmless fun on a summer evening. Disco had dominated the charts for the past few years, stealing the spotlight from their heroes or causing them to actually record disco music themselves, and this felt justified.
What could wrong? Everything. At least no one demanded tearing down statues of white baseball stars or painted slogans in front of stadium.
In the 1970s, a couple of other teams tried crazy promotions to sell tickets. The Brewers had “10 cent beer” night in 1971 and the Indians in 1974. The one in Milwaukee saw people drunk in the parking lots and the police chief blasting the team management on TV. The one in Cleveland had the visiting Texas Rangers defending themselves with baseball bats against fans who obviously had had too many cheap beers.
No team had promotions like that again. For whatever reason, we got angry at different things back then, and the police were never attacked except by a couple of angry Indians fans in Cleveland who had too many beers. They were not mad at the police, but rather crazy drunk.
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Friday, July 11, 2025
A chat with Allan Wall, blogger...
Guest: Allan Wall, blogger....The border issues and attacks against ICE....Protests in Mexico City....and other stories..
July 11, 1967: Tony Perez hit a 15th inning HR to win marathon All Star Game
On this day in 1967 millions watched on TV one of the greatest All Star Game pitching duels ever. The final score was National League 2, American League 1 in 15 innings.
In this game, all three runs came on solo homers by third basemen: Dick Allen, Brooks Robinson and Tony Perez. It was also the longest game in All-Star history, a mark tied in 2008.
The 1967 rosters included 21 future Hall of Famers: Tony Perez, Tom Seaver, Don Drysdale, Ferguson Jenkins, Bill Mazeroski, Jim Hunter, Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal, Joe Torre, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Harmon Killebrew, Mickey Mantle, Rod Carew, Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Tony Oliva, Al Kaline and Carl Yastrzemski.
It was a great night for Tony Perez of Ciego de Avila. Tony replaced Dick Allen in the 10th. He struck out against Catfish Hunter in the 12th, then hit the game-winner to deep left field with one out in the top of the 15th.
Along with Perez, there were two other Cubans: the aforementioned Tony Oliva and Mike Cuellar.
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July 11, 1962: The first "Telstar" was launched and then came the classic song
It was the beginning of something big, as someone said. A few days later, a news program started with a picture of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower side by side, each coming from different sides of the world.
And then Tornados put it to music. The Tornados became the first British band to have a # 1 in the US, or about two years before The Beatles.
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July 11, 1968: We remember Earl Weaver today!
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July 11, 1914: Babe Ruth made his major league debut
George Herman "Babe" Ruth made his major league debut on this day in 1914. Ruth pitched 7 strong innings to lead the Red Sox to a 4-3 victory against the Indians.
The Babe was sold to the Yankees and turned into an outfielder in 1920. The rest is major league history and 714 home runs.
The Babe was sold to the Yankees and turned into an outfielder in 1920. The rest is major league history and 714 home runs.
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Thursday, July 10, 2025
McArthur Park in the new news, Walz over Shapiro, AG Paxton divorce and ...
McArthur Park in the new news, Walz over Shapiro, AG Paxton divorce and DiMaggio reaches # 50
Someone left the dope out in the rain
Someone left the dope out in the rain: MacArthur Park in Los Angeles is in the news these days. Once upon a time, this park inspired Jimmy Webb to write that song about the girl in her yellow dress sitting on a bench. There were two hit versions: Richard Harris and Donna Summer....
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Someone left the dope out in the rain - American Thinker https://t.co/6ahOZQULPh
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) July 10, 2025
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