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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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 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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March 2007: Some thoughts on the Libby verdict

A post from March 2007:

It's a rare day that The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have similar editorials. After all, they come from different political positions. See this:

"Mr. Wilson's case has besmirched nearly everyone it touched. The former ambassador will be remembered as a blowhard."

Who said that? Rush Limbaugh? It was The Washington Post in today's editorial about The Libby Verdict (The serious consequences of a pointless Washington scandal).

Of course, the Democrats are trying to spin the trial as more proof that "Bush lied".

Reid & Pelosi are throwing the customary red meat to the angry left.

For the record, it's tough to make the point that "Bush lied" when Democrats said the same thing about Iraq in 1998 and 2002!

Reid & Pelosi don't have the courage to cut the funding, which is a binding resolution of their position. They do have the "courage" of making these statements, which are just speech that carry no binding effect. Reid & Pelosi are speaking to the gallery rather than performing their constitutional duties to cut the funding of a war they don't support. (No profiles in courage here!)

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2014 show: Cafe Cubano" & recipes with Sonia Martinez & Marta Verdes Darby, authors

"Cafe Cubano" & recipes with Sonia Martinez & Marta Verdes Darby, authors...Listen in now at http://t.co/OdS4eaZOLR. #BlogTalkRadio
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1944: "Frenchman's Creek" a.k.a. the lady and her pirate?

Thanks to TCM, we got to catch "Frenchman's Creek", a 1944 romance between a beautiful lady and a pirate.    I had seen this movie a couple of times before.   

You pick something new every time.    

What can we better than that?  The story of an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate.     The cast is Joan Fontaine (the pretty lady), Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce. 

It was based on a book but I have not read it.   

What's the best part?   No political correctness!   No preaching about global warming, identity politics, colonialism or the EPA claiming that cannons are causing environmental damage.

And Joan Fontaine looks stunningly beautiful in those dresses!

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You don't have to be a lawyer to read Scalia!

We lost Scalia in 2016 and that was quite a shock.   Scalia left behind a lot of opinions and fans like me.   He certainly inspired a lot of people to get into law, such as his successor Neil Gorsuch.

In this book, Scalia tells us about opinions. life and a few other things.

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A real hero: Ross McGinnis

In June 2008, Pres. Bush awarded the Medal of Honor to the parents of Ross McGinnis.

This is the nation's highest award for courage in combat.

It was the fourth time the Medal has been awarded for those who have served in Iraq.

Here is Ross McGinnis' story:

"In the gunner's hatch of a Humvee driving through Baghdad on December 4, 2006, Private McGinnis saw a grenade fly through the hatch, rolling to where it could have injured the four other soldiers inside.

In easy position to leap and save himself, McGinnis instead jumped to cover the grenade with his body to shield his comrades.
The four men he saved were all at the White House yesterday to pay their respects."

Every young man and woman in the armed forces is a volunteer. They choose to serve their country.   They deserve our support and respect.

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