The Braves have rotated through a whole host of outfielders this season, not just Laureano and Duvall. I’ve listed them before: Forrest Wall, Brian Anderson, Eli White, Michael Harris, Ronald Acuna, Eddie Rosario, Jorge Soler, and Kelenic. Ten different guys. Maybe more. They need to move Nacho out there. The good news is that Michael Harris is currently rehabbing at Gwinnett. Batting leadoff, he slapped the first pitch he saw into left field for a hit.
Braves GM AA deserves to be named MLB executive of the year just for the Chris Sale trade. Getting the All Star / Cy Young favorite for a minor league shortstop AND having other teams paying the vast majority of his salary. In Boston Vaughn Grissom has hit .148 in 23 games. Steal of the century.
Everyone is so quick to call athletes the greatest of all time (GOAT). Usually a complete disregard for history, those that came before. The GOAT may not win all the time, but doesn’t lose out in an embarrassing fashion, in the first round, to an unknown. Doesn’t make a mockery of the game. Doesn’t wear a little goat figurine around their neck after barely winning half the events they were entered in. Doesn’t beat themselves. Tiger wanted to win so bad that he hurt himself in the process, more than once. Tiger was dominant, a force, but Jack still edges him as the GOAT.
Other GOATs: Wayne Gretzky. Michael Phelps. Michael Jordan edges Kobe and Kareem. Hard to pick a GOAT QB, but I pick Brady over Montana. Barry Sanders is the GOAT RB. For receivers its hard to pick between Rice, Moss, and Calvin. Mickey Mantle was too injury riddled to be the GOAT hitter. Ted Williams may edge Joltin Joe, the Iron Horse, Ty Cobb, Shoeless Joe, Hammerin Hank, and Ichiro. The GOAT pitcher is Greg Maddux.
Stayed after work Monday finishing several things up. Then C called to remind me of her women’s zoom call. I decided to drive up toward Cumming to eat at Red Robin. They offer “bottomless” fries and other items, but usually the service is so slow it’s hard to get the refills you want. But this time I got great fast service. I ordered the bottomless root beer float, and finished one off before my burger arrived. The waiter brought out a second float just as I was finishing the first The steak fries came with the burger, and the waiter quickly brought out a second basket – which I couldn’t quite finish. I was too full to get a third float. A Coke Zero float might’ve been a little less filling.
By the time I was able to log onto the Elon Musk / Donald Trump interview, Ceil was already engrossed in a Hallmark Channel movie - so we didn’t listen to much of it. I’m hearing that it was a huge media win for Trump. He spoke coherently the entire time on a wide range of topics. Musk would love to do a similar equal time interview with Kamala to let her talk about whatever she wants.
I finished the novel “The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers”, by Samuel Burr.
Now reading “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion” by Jonathan Haidt, an agnostic professor of human psychology. I’d read another of Haidt’s books on how smart phones are causing mental illness in teenagers and young adults, which was spot on. In The Righteous Mind, Haidt shows how a person’s brain is wired determines whether they’re liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. Heavy stuff. I really have to concentrate to follow all this.
Conspiracy theories…
1. the Minn governor was hand picked by China to be Kamala’s running mate. You heard it here first. What government official takes 20+ trips to China?
2. the Trump shooter was recruited by the CIA, who set up the whole thing. CIA sharpshooters took the shots.
3. the riots in England, what is happening in Venezuela, the immigrants in Europe and the US - all part of an overall plan that will lead to the demise of the US and an eventual one world government.
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