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Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Five Straight Division Championships

Braves clinched the NL East for the fifth straight year. Few predicted they’d win any of those five. Great to snatch the pennant at the last minute from the heavily favored Mets, as this chart indicates.

Few are predicting they’ll win the World Series, much less advance past the mighty Dodgers. Strider should be back, perhaps Albies as well. Last night the Braves executed their first sacrifice bunt of the year, missing out on the chance to be the first team in history to go all 162 without one. Teams are bunting less and less. Soon it will be gone for good.

Hard to go from three sold out home crowds to play in an almost empty stadium in Miami, with your 5th starter on the mound. On the pregame show the announcers kept talking about what a letdown it would be. I heard that 70% of the crowd that did show up were Braves fans. This past weekend the Marlins were showing advertisements that Mets fans in south Florida should come to cheer against the Braves. Didn’t work.

A rare weekend when the Braves, Tech, UGA, Clemson, and the Falcons won all their games.

Judge hit HR # 62, which was great. Man ESPN sure thought so. I had SportsCenter on for the 50 minutes I was on the treadmill this morning (on mute, while also listening to my book). SportsCenter had four or five bits about Judge. I saw Dodger and Mets recaps before anything about the Braves clinching the division. Of course I may have tuned in just after they’d covered the Braves, you never know. ESPN covers college football less than any other sport. It’s NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, and soccer squeezing out CFB. Why I don’t watch SportsCenter.

The thinking in baseball these days is that once the opposition has seen a pitcher 2 or 3 times through the order, the batters will hit the pitcher better in at bat number 3 and 4. That’s why they put in relievers, so the batters have to face someone new.

Based on what is discussed on sports talk radio and social media, they are a lot of people that know little about how decisions are made by managers, coaches, and teams. I’m certainly not talking about Lang, but those bozos on the 680 morning show don’t have a clue. Speaking of, didn’t realize I had a pal who is big buds with Ben Ingram from Braves Radio. Might have to call in a favor to get Ingram to come out to see the old men at hot stove this winter.

Set another sales record at work for September. On track for a record year. We’re setting up a Christmas dinner at Frankie’s Steak House, near the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth. Supposed to be a good place.

Worked from home today and it was constant. Got a couple of hot parts going.

Made BBQ quesadillas for supper last night. For lunch today I made ham & cheese sliders on toasted English muffins.

Video of Peyton and Eli’s call of a streaker “running a post pattern” during the Monday Night Rams@49ers game. “How do you tackle a streaker? Do you hit him high or low?”

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Jim Denison shared an article by cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown titled “If you’re a Christian, you should have a target on your back.” He offers specific examples:

  • “If you speak up for the unborn, you will be targeted.
  • “If you uphold marriage and family as God intended, you will be targeted.
  • “If you claim salvation is only through Jesus, you will be targeted.
  • “If you resist LGBT activism in the schools, you will be targeted.
  • “If you preach the word of God with brokenness and humility but without compromise or dilution, you will be targeted.”

He cites 2 Timothy 3:12: “All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

LOU GEHRIG  [SABR Bio] scored more than 100 runs and recorded at least 100 RBI for 13 straight seasons, from 1926-1938. Growing up close to Hilltop Park influenced his career choice. Hilltop Park, in the Washington Heights neighborhood, was the original New York City home of the Yankee’s franchise, beginning in 1903. The team was called The Highlanders then but sometimes they were referred to as The Hilltoppers, among others. No American League player has ever had more RBI in one season. Gehrig had 185 RBI in 1931. Of the six highest single-season RBI totals in history, Gehrig owns three of them—the AL record of 185 in 1931 and 173 in 1927 and 1930 (5th). National Leaguer Hack Wilson’s 191 RBI in 1930 is the all-Time record, a record Babe Ruth said would never be broken.  

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