Monday, August 03, 2026

1948: Satchel Paige's first major league start


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Satchel Paige made it to the major leagues in 1948.     Paige was 6-1 with a 2.48 ERA for the World Champion Cleveland Indians.    

He started his first game on August 3rd and pitched 7 strong innings against the Senators.

Paige was the greatest pitcher of the old Negro Leagues.   He led the Kansas City Monarchs to four consecutive pennants from 1939 to 1942.  It’s not clear how many games he won but it was a lot of them.

Paige was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1971.

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Sunday, August 02, 2026

A chat with George Rodriguez, South Texas

 


Guest:   George Rodriguez, South Texas.  The week of Texas polls and a border mess in Spain.  

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A containment barrier too late

A containment barrier too late:

Spain seems finally to have figured out that unrestricted illegal immigration is bad.

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We remember Myrna Loy (1905-1982)


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Myrna Adele Williams was born in Montana in 1905 and died in 1982.

We remember her as Myrna Loy and "Nora Charles" in the great series of movies with William Powell.    

They had great screen chemistry and became one of the all time favorite Hollywood couples.    Loy & Powell made 14 movies.

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1979: The day that Thurman Munson was killed


As I recall, the Yankees had a day off.  Also, the first place Orioles were scheduled to play a weekend series in New York.

Then we got the news that Thurman Munson had been killed in a plane crash.  It was crushing to say the least.


Munson was a great catcher and ranks with some of the great Yankees of all time.


1990: Iraq invaded Kuwait




On this day in 1990, we woke up to the news that Iraq invaded Kuwait.   It set off a chain of events that led us to The First Gulf War in 1991 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.     
In both cases, Saddam Hussein did not believe that the US would kick him out of Kuwait and then later out of power.  Saddam was eventually captured and met justice in 2007.    

Aren’t you glad that we removed him now that you see what’s happening in North Korea?    Can you imagine Saddam with nuclear capabilities?    
A few years ago, CBS interviewed George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate Saddam Hussein after his capture.    This is a portion of that interview:
Piro spent almost seven months debriefing Saddam in a plan based on winning his confidence by convincing him that Piro was an important envoy who answered to President Bush.This and being Saddam’s sole provider of items like writing materials and toiletries made the toppled Iraqi president open up to Piro, a Lebanese-American and one of the few FBI agents who spoke Arabic.“He told me he initially miscalculated… President Bush’s intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998…a four-day aerial attack,” says Piro.
“He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack.”“He didn’t believe the U.S. would invade?” asks Pelley,“No, not initially,” answers Piro.” (CBS)
Saddam came to the conclusion that the US did not have the stomach to take casualties. 
Why did he arrive at such point?  
1998—Saddam kicked out the UN inspectors.   

Eventually, President Clinton ordered a 4 day air war against Iraq and signed into law The Iraq Liberation Act.  
Last, but not least, billions of dollars from The Oil for Food Program went missing rather than going to the Iraq people. 
No wonder! Saddam thought that we would never invade him!     


Saturday, August 01, 2026

The Spanish border crisis and a few more thoughts

 


 The Spanish border crisis and a few more thoughts....



Is Ceuta like Del Rio?

Is Ceuta like Del Rio?:

Why yes, it is—only it’ll be worse because of terrible Spanish laws and an ineffectual response.

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1978: Pete Rose reached # 44





Pete Rose got to # 44, or the second longest streak since Joe DiMaggio got to 56 in 1941.   He singled off of Phil Niekro.  


Willie Keeler had 44 in 1897-98 but foul balls didn't count as strikes.
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Let’s talk with Max Glauben



Max Glauben was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928 and grew up surrounded by a proud Jewish community before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. By the time he was 15 years old, Glauben had lost most of his immediate family, witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and lived in multiple concentration camps. In 1945, American forces liberated Glauben and countless others from the Nazi death camps.  (Dallas Morning News)

We recorded this with Max in 2010.

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