R.I.P. Bill Dukes

I first met Bill Dukes back in 1980 when I coached his daughter Stephanie in Mighty Mites. Ever since then he’s called me Coach. A larger than life character, always with a huge smile on his face. Bill will be missed. Stephanie, the Quarterback Princess, wrote a lovely tribute on social media.

Every time I would see Bill he would remind me about the Saturday we had an extra-early makeup Mighty Mite game, when I arrived dressed in my pajamas, bathrobe, comfy houseshoes, with shave cream on my face and a towel draped over my shoulder - holding a teddy bear. I wiped off the shave cream and coached the game in that outfit. The things college kids will do.

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Thursday was a beautiful morning to play golf at sunrise. Views from the first tee, looking back across the 8th fairway (above), and from the second tee (below) looking back down across the first green and the first fairway on the left, and the second fairway to the right.

Also from the second green, just above the third tee, looking down the hill to the 3rd green.

Will has befriended neighbor Evan Tucker, who works in data for the Braves.

JIM BOTTOMLEY  [SABR Bio] broke Wilbert Robinson’s record for most runs batted in in a single game. He had 12 RBI 16-Sep-1924 [Robby had 11 on 10-Jun-1982]. Jim was the first player in his franchise’s history to hit three grand slams in one year, on 02-Jun-, 28-Jun(2)- & 10-Sep-1925. He had a well-known habit of tilting his hat over his left eye. like this.

DENISON: Ari Fleischer’s new book, “Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong—And Just Doesn’t Care” reports a 1980 Gallup poll showed 70% had a “great deal or a fair amount” of trust that the press would report the news “fully, fairly, and accurately.” In 2020, only 40% said the same. According to Columbia Journalism Review, in 2019 the press was the least trusted institution in America compared to trust in the military, law enforcement, universities, the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and Congress. A 2021 survey conducted in 46 countries by Reuters found the American media is the least trusted in the world. What explains this? Fleischer focuses on the fact the vast majority of the media are Democrats, products of journalism schools heavily invested in a liberal worldview. He cites a 2018 study finding journalists were four times more likely to be Democrats than Republicans. During the 2016 presidential election, journalists gave a combined $396,000 to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump; more than 96% went to the Clinton campaign. When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016, the Washington Post headlined, “Supreme Court conservative dismayed liberals.” When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died in 2020, the Post headlined, “A pioneer devoted to equality.”

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