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Good God, What Are They Doing to Baseball

  Based solely on watching a little bit of baseball on TV over the past 2 years, it seems overwhelmingly obvious that the concept of “fans” in the baseball park is irrelevant. Unneeded. Here’s what MLB really ought to do, based on what they’ve ALREADY done to the game: First, and right away, completely dissolve the concept of “leagues” and geographical divisions. Remake the divisions into 4-team divisions, with a champion in each division. Make certain to include second place finishers in the post-season, so that at least half of the fans can have some reason, however remote, to buy some more t-shirts and hats for their guys. Just like they do in basketball. Re-name the divisions with cute names, sort of on the concept of what they do in hockey. You know—the Eco division for the Pacific Northwest, the Snow division for the upper Midwest—that sort of thing. Next, MLB seems to have plenty of money, so buy up a crap-load of real estate in a fly-over state like Kansas
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The Designated Hitter

  I heard Jon Miller (the radio man for the SF Giants baseball broadcasts) killing some air time a couple of days ago by making a comparison in favor of the Designated Hitter rule that’s used in the American League now, and has been for quite a while. His comparison was that a quarterback in the NFL doesn’t play defense, so why should a pitcher in MLB take a turn at bat? He seems to think that this is a valid comparison. I disagree. In the not really distant past, football players went “both ways”, in the parlance, playing both offense and defense. In high school, I did that too. Lots of us did. Things changed in football, and specialists became the manner of play. In football you’ve got an offensive team, a defensive team, and “special” teams for kickoffs, kickoff returns, punts, punts returns, field goals, extra points—Etcetras. It’s endless. That’s fine for football. I don’t care. The NFL has been off my personal radar for so long that I don’t even know i
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 No, there's no particular reason for this.....It simply caught my eye.
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Super Sunday

  I read that Bruce Springsteen will be featured in a Super Bowl commercial. The sponsor will be Jeep. Figures. Springsteen has always been an anti-Trumper and is in his glory at this juncture. I understand that he’ll be espousing “unity”. Great. Just goes along with what I always thought about both Springsteen (whose music has always been sub-standard) and Jeep (whose drivers are among the worst tail-gaters on the road) Not like I was on the cusp of going out and buying a Springsteen record and a Jeep anyhow, but it solidifies my decision to skip Super Sunday altogether. Why can’t sports just be about sports?
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A "High Alert" Inauguration

  OK then. Tomorrow is Joe Biden’s inauguration day, and it looks like this means all is well in these United States. I see that schools are opening again all over this great country, and the only thing that had to happen for this to occur was that Donald Trump needed to be ousted and vilified, and the democrats had to be put firmly in control. The pandemic, it seems, is over. Joe did it!! Trump is still the devil and old odd Joe is the savior. Well, in fairness, law enforcement is reportedly on “high alert”. Does this mean that the police are our friends again? No longer just a gang of racist murderers? I wonder if anyone in charge of anything can smell what they’re shoveling.
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Linux Mint

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  This might be old news to some, but it was a revelation to me. I’ve monkeyed around with Linux distributions in the past—Mostly Ubuntu—but haven’t in the past 4 or 5 years. The house has been all Windows 10 all the time. The problem was that Ubuntu, which I became really familiar and comfortable with in days gone by, had managed to morph into something more mainstream and “ready for prime time”, which necessarily meant that it became a bit more bloated. I had initially gone to Linux in the distant past to resurrect some older under-powered machines and try to breathe some more life into them. I’m probably not really very unique in that respect. Since the desktop computers were all completely capable of it, everything went to Windows 10. A grand operating scheme, by the way. I have no complaints about Windows 10 other than it’s power and resource mandates. It’s a hog. Like Ubuntu had become. I have a box of old tech. I’ll bet you do too. Stuff that sits
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Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021

  I might be completely wrong here, but it seems to me that if the BLM/antifa riots and lootings this past year had been dealt with in the same ferocious manner as the Capitol riot is now being dealt with, much of the grief of the past summer of discontent could have been avoided. Not saying this prosecutorial conduct is specifically motivated to punish and intimidate Republicans and traditional Americans, but…..Oh, shit. I am too saying exactly that. In other news, it’s beginning to look like 2021 is going to be worse in every possible way than 2020 was. Restaurants and bowling centers will never re-open and I’ll never again see the expression of a full face in any public area. Are the democrat overseers happy yet? Is it even possible that California will impeach Gavin Newsome? Stay tuned. Maybe Biden will say something coherent from time to time. You never can tell.
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