Thursday, July 06, 2023

Will's Birthday

Tuesday night W&MC had A&C, M, and Thomas & Holly over to cook out. Shivonne got to meet little Goose for the first time.

Wednesday: left work at 3:30. Got home and drove C down to W&MC's. They had taken the kids to the zoo, and shopped for bikes, so the kids were tired. W mixed margaritas, using a spicy jalapeno infused tequila. Mexican. C brought a birthday cake for Will. Shivonne helped blow out the candles.

Little Millie was transfixed by my Braves cap. When I moved it back and forth, her eyes would follow the cap. We watched the Braves game.

Soroka was all over the place. Hit at least 2 batters. Was driving me crazy as well. With all the Cleveland baserunners, they were lucky none scored until the end. Really made the game drag. But hopefully Soroka can get it going. After his first start a week or two ago he decides to just rare back and throw, instead of trying to nibble at the corners.

Braves are 25-4 in their last 29 games. Going into Tuesday's game the Braves had hit 67 homers in their last 27 games, outscoring the opposition by 84 runs, averaging 7 runs per game with a .304 batting average.

Looks like all those "fans" blasting Liberty media's treatment of the Braves will finally get their wish. The Braves corporate owners plan to spin off the team into its own publicly held company – so you can buy stock in the team. This article does say that once this happens, Liberty may sell the team to a new owner. Perhaps a foreign owner?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/braves-set-to-complete-split-from-liberty-media/ar-AA1dqTpL

Today: up early this AM to play golf. My legs were still sore from the race, but it was good to get them stretched out. I didn't play well. Grass in some fairways almost as high as the rough. I did par two straight holes: 2 and 3. After 9 holes I was pretty tired. Then Dunkin Donuts before visiting my supplier, across 75/85 from old Turner Field. Stopped by to visit the Hank Aaron 715 memorial on the way.

The supplier has a complex of several old warehouses. They process metal in a warehouse built in 1911 (below). Parts of the floor are cobblestone and brick.

Next door are two old warehouses built shortly after Sherman burned Atlanta (below left). Old bars on windows and such. Several studios film movies and commercials there: Ant Man, Central Intelligence, Fast and Furious, The Wasp, etc. John Cena recently finished filming there.

Leftover meeting food for lunch: Willys Mexican or Jason's Deli. C had book club tonight. She made pizza before she went.

DENISON: Jacob Wolf, a government professor at Regent University who formerly taught at Princeton, writes in Public Discourse that democracy "has become a secular religion, complete with its own dogmas, practices, and clerics. Humanitarianism replaces charity, and mind (or reason) replaces God himself." This secular religion, if unchecked, will be our undoing as a nation. It will continue to replace truth with tolerance, leading millions into unbiblical immorality that is destructive to themselves and those they influence. It will lead us away from God (John 10:10) and eternal life (John 3:16) into a Christless darkness in this world and the next. It will provoke God's righteous judgment on our rejection of his word. "The nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste" (Isaiah 60:12).

https://www.denisonforum.org/daily-article/fourth-of-july-2023-overshadowed-by-16-mass-shootings/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Independence+Day+overshadowed+by+16+mass+shootings&utm_campaign=07-06-23+DA+Independence+Day+overshadowed+by+16+mass+shootings%3A+A+reflection+on+the+foundational+question+of+our+time

A United Nations expert reported to the general assembly that long-held religious beliefs must be subservient to other ideologiey.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/07/un-expert-says-religious-beliefs-must-change-to-accommodate-lgbt-ideology/__;!!AE29DT8V!RKD6S6sAblL6Z--2VZ_xJ_au86vH9boj0KCwNqk-CHXTkmTFxDbToF1BLlxejIFRvhruDgQcmDgmSMy4-NA$ 

GEORGE SISLER [SABR Bio] broke Ty Cobb's record for most hits in a single season. Cobb's record was 248 in 1911, his MVP year. Sisler had 257 in 1920. In 2004, Ichiro Suzuki broke the record with 262 hits. Sisler won the AL MVP playing for the St. Louis Browns in 1922. The franchise moved east in 1954 and the team renamed the Orioles. In 1964, Robinson was voted AL MVP. Since then, Orioles Frank Robinson (1966), Boog Powell (1970), and Cal Ripken (1983, 1991) have won MVP. Sisler hit safely in the first 34 games of the 1925 season, from 14-Apr through 19-May before being held hitless the following day by the A's Lefty Grove.

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