Folty’s second straight bad outing (third if you count last year's final playoff game), and he’s kicked off the team for the rest of the year. Poor kid looks emaciated. Can't get his fastball up to 90 mph. The Braves can trade him or keep him in the minors for next year. Maybe they’ll trade him to the Marlins. My take: Cares too much about the shoes. Spikes. Socks (above: never seen floppy socks on a baseball player). Fast cars. Folty has a beautiful young family. Hope he's saving for retirement.
AJC beatwriter Gabe Burns stoked the fires of the Twitterverse by saying all of a sudden the Braves have a shortage of pitching after focusing their rebuild on pitching, but that’s really not the case. I just said yesterday how they’d already lost free agent starting pitchers Felix Hernandez and Cole Hamels, so now the Braves are down three starting pitchers. Still, Soroka, Fried, Newcomb, and Kyle Wright form a great nucleus.
Some say the Braves should go for broke, make trades, and mortgage the future to win the World Series this year. Crazy talk. The season could end immediately at any time. Young Pache, Waters, and all those other phenoms will be taking the place of Ozuna, Inciarte, Duvall, Markakis, and others for the next 10-15 years.
Dansby hit a home run to straightaway center field last night.
Since I stare at my phone too much already, yesterday with all the Braves Twitter trolls already out in force tweeting out ridiculous opinions, I started unfollowing accounts of people I really have zero use reading their bogus opinions and retweets.
Braves lineup of the future:
RF Acuna
2B Albies
1B Freeman
3B Riley
LF Waters
DH Adams or Camargo
SS Swanson
C Contreras or Langeliers
CF Pache
SP Soroka
SP Fried
SP Newcomb
SP Wright
Usually I edit my repost of the SABR question of the day to make it more readable, but these questions, hints, and answers had me amazed at the similarity of the correct answer to one of baseball’s immortals.
Question: whose baseball uniform number 3 has possibly been worn by more fans than any other jersey?
Hint: although originally a pitcher, his greatest seasons were amassed as one of baseball’s most prolific sluggers
Hint: his chosen lifestyle, although emulated/admired by many, has been matched by few.
Hint: the father of just a single daughter, official birth records have confirmed that he had several other children.
Hint: he posted a career OPS of just over .800 in the stadium bearing his name.
Who is this? Answer at the bottom.
Monday: Ceil cooked Mexican for supper. All the fixins. Anna made the guacamole and M made cheese dip. Forgot to bring leftovers for lunch this morning so I stopped by Taco Bell for a breakfast burrito, and will eat peanut butter crackers for lunch.
LISTENING
Understanding What Is Happening in America: A Christian Response. Long, but easy to understand. Required reading, including:
“…the self-righteous types filling the ranks of Democrats, BLM, Antifa, and the radical Left in general, themselves wronged by no one and possessed by a hateful, secular, utopian ideology absent any notion of grace, see themselves as the embodiment of retribution and national reckoning. They are determined to keep America’s sins—both real and imagined—ever before her, reminding her, flogging her, as a means of reducing us all to a pathetic national guilt that will be leveraged for evil purposes. Don’t fall for it.”
A good Denison column on Cancel Culture. Guess I better start being careful about what I post.
Joel Rosenberg reports: When Americans vote in November to elect the President, Senate and House of Representatives, the future of religious freedom is going to be a major issue on the ballot.
The next President is likely to have at least one, and possibly two, seats to fill on the Supreme Court. Will they be filled by liberals or conservatives? The freedom of Christians, Jews, Muslims and others to maintain their Constitutional rights to freely practice their faith increasingly appears to hang in the balance.
Consider the latest outrageous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. It denied a Calvary Chapel evangelical church in Nevada to have more than 50 people meet together for worship and Bible teaching, even though gambling casinos in the state are allowed to welcome many more than 50 people into their establishments. How is that possible?
"A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church's request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a 50-person cap on worship services as part of the state's ongoing response to the coronavirus," reported the Associated Press.
"In a 5-4 decision, the high court refused to grant the request from the Christian church east of Reno to be subjected to the same COVID-19 restrictions in Nevada that allow casinos, restaurants and other businesses to operate at 50% of capacity with proper social distancing," noted the AP. "Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners' First Amendment rights to express and exercise their beliefs."
Four brave Justices dissented from the ridiculous decision, siding with the Calvary Chapel. They included Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas and Kavanaugh. Justice Alito was absolutely right when he wrote, "The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. It says nothing about the freedom to play craps, or blackjack, [or] feed tokens into a slot machine."
Likewise, Justice Gorsuch was dead on correct when he wrote, "The world we inhabit today, with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges. But there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesar Palace over Calvary Chapel."
Irish? Scottish? Get a mask in your family’s signature plaid.
My to do list: take Vitamin D and calcium tablets. Also fish oil. Birthday clubs to join: Marlowes, La Madeline, Aunt Annies Pretzels. Best Buy often has good deals, flash sales. Need to get on their email list. Looking for a wi fi extender / booster with multiple access points: Plumnet, Sinology, Erros.
Answer: DALE MURPHY [SABR Bio]
- Murphy played for 15 seasons for the ATL, who fashioned themselves as “America’s Team” in part thanks to Ted Turner’s pioneering WTBS cable television network. Their nationwide fan base helped popularize their stars—none more than Murphy. His uniform #3 continues to be seen in many quarters.
- Pitched and caught in youth baseball and in American Legion ball. Started his professional career behind the dish before transforming himself into a Gold Glove centerfielder.
- A devout member of the Mormon Church, Murphy and his wife, Nancy have 7 sons and a daughter.
- He posted a .819 OPS mark when his team played there at Jack Murphy Stadium against the host Padres 1981-93. The venue had been called San Diego Stadium 1976-80.
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