An Untitled Blog

I'd say this was a blog of random thoughts, but, really, even that is giving it too much credit. It's not just about The Beatles and baseball. I think. Well, we'll see.

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[this-day-in-baseball]

June 4, 1964

At Connie Mack Stadium, Sandy Koufax throws his third no-hitter in three years, blanking the Phillies 3-0. The Dodgers’ southpaw, who will add a perfect game to his resume next season, joins Bob Feller as the only other modern major leaguer to pitch three career hitless games.

[this-day-in-baseball]

March 26, 1977

The Red Sox release fan-favorite Rico Petrocelli. The two-time All-Star shortstop will call it quits, ending his 13-year career, all with Boston, with a .251 batting average.

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The Beatles Music Videos & Promotional Films

I Feel Fine

Ticket To Ride

Help!

Day Tripper

We Can Work It Out

Paperback Writer

Rain

Strawberry Fields Forever

Penny Lane

A Day In The Life

Hello Goodbye

All You Need Is Love

Lady Madonna

Hey Jude

Revolution

Get Back

Don’t Let Me Down

Let It Be

Something

Free As A Bird

Real Love

[just-shower-thoughts]

If you had a dollar for every girl that didn’t find you attractive…They would eventually find you attractive

[this-day-in-baseball]

March 8, 2017

By a vote of 93-1, the Ohio House passes Bill 59, setting aside October 7 each year in honor of Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first openly African-American to play under contract in the major leagues. In 1884, the bare-handed catcher played for the American Association’s Toledo Blue Stockings, until a rib injury and the team’s excessive payroll led to his release late in the season.

[this-day-in-baseball]

March 4, 1921

After spending the first 12 years of his career with the team, veteran outfielder Harry Hooper is traded by the Red Sox to the White Sox for Nemo Leibold and Shano Collins. Hooper will finish his career in Chicago, hitting .302 during his five seasons in the Windy City, thirty points higher than his average in Boston.

[timmyballgame723]

#RedSox

[this-day-in-baseball]

February 8, 1972

Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces the Special Committee on the Negro League Hall of Fame selection of Buck Leonard (left) and Josh Gibson (right), a power-hitting catcher who was called the “black Babe Ruth” during his playing day. Leonard, a teammate of Gibson on the Homestead Grays who once turned down a MLB contract believing he was too old to compete at that level, was ranked #47 on a 1999 Sporting News poll of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players

[sisterofiris]

One of the most powerful moments I experienced as an ancient history student was when I was teaching cuneiform to visitors at a fair. A father and his two little children came up to the table where I was working. I recognised them from an interfaith ceremony I’d attended several months before: the father had said a prayer for his homeland, Syria, and for his hometown, Aleppo.

All three of them were soft-spoken, kind and curious. I taught the little girl how to press wedges into the clay, and I taught the little boy that his name meant “sun” and that there was an ancient Mesopotamian God with the same name. I told them they were about the same age as scribes were when they started their training. As they worked, their father said to them gently: “See, this is how your ancestors used to write.”

And I thought of how the Ancient City of Aleppo is almost entirely destroyed now, and how the Citadel was shelled and used as a military base, and how Palmyran temples were blown up and such a wealth of culture and history has been lost forever. And there I was with these children, two small pieces of the future of a broken country, and I was teaching them cuneiform. They were smiling and chatting to each other about Mesopotamia and “can you imagine, our great-great-great-grandparents used to write like this four thousand years ago!” For them and their father, it was more than a fun weekend activity. It was a way of connecting, despite everything and thousands of kilometres away from home, with their own history.

This moment showed me, in a concrete way, why ancient studies matter. They may not seem important now, not to many people at least. But history represents so much of our cultural identity: it teaches us where we come from, explains who we are, and guides us as we go forward. Lose it, and we lose a part of ourselves. As historians, our role is to preserve this knowledge as best we can and pass it on to future generations who will need it. I helped pass it on to two little Syrian children that day. They learnt that their country isn’t just blood and bombs, it’s also scribes and powerful kings and Sun-Gods and stories about immortality and tablets that make your hands sticky. And that matters.

[this-day-in-baseball]

January 24, 1973

Warren Spahn becomes only the sixth player elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, receiving 316 of the 380 (83.2%) votes cast by the BBWAA scribes. Spahn, who recorded thirteen 20-win seasons with the Braves, retired as the winningest left-handed pitcher in big league history with 363 victories.

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[katana-wielding-bookworm]

I want Terry Crews and Vin Diesel to do a buddy cop movie where they are both secret nerds but they don’t want the other to know. Like Vin Diesel plays D & D on weekends and Terry likes to create epic crossover fan art. Somehow they have to work undercover at Comic Con and for what ever reason I need Daniel Radcliffe to be the villain. 

[rizaoftheowls]

I’d like to add: not a character played by Dan Radcliffe. Dan Radcliffe, appearing as himself.

[dragontatoes]

no, no wait… I want Elijah Wood to play Daniel Radcliffe.

[deathchic]

Elijah Wood plays Daniel Radcliffe and his evil sidekick is Elijah Wood played by Daniel Radcliffe

[just-shower-thoughts]

With 7.442 billion people alive today, its highly unlikely what you are thinking is actually original.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The NFL concussion protocol would have cleared JFK to re-enter the parade.

[just-shower-thoughts]

When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

[this-day-in-baseball]

December 6, 1976

The Brewers trade first baseman George Scott and outfielder Bernie Carbo to the Red Sox for Cecil Cooper. Cooper will become a dominant player during the early eighties, appearing in five All-Star games and batting over .300 in the first seven of his eleven years with Milwaukee.

[timmyballgame723]

There’s one Dick O’Connell probably wanted back.

[this-day-in-baseball]

October 27, 2004

Under the moon’s reddish tint caused by a lunar eclipse, the Red Sox exorcised 86 years of agonizing losses by winning their first World Series since 1918. In one of the most dominating Series performances, Boston, who never trailed during the four games, blanks the Cardinals, 3-0, to complete the sweep.

[timmyballgame723]

And I never had to hear my Yankee-fan friends say “1918” ever again. Or, should I say, *evah* again.