Mickey Mantle retired with the most bunt singles in history. Sixty years later, he is still ranked tenth.
1. 189 Brett Butler 29 in 1992
2. 91 Rod Carew
3. Ichiro Suzuki
4. Maury Wills
5. Bert Campaneris
6. Pete Rose
7. Juan Pierre
8. Lou Brock
9. Kenny Lofton
10. Mickey Mantle had 7 in the World Series
Reading the national bestseller “DOPESICK: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America” by Beth Macy. How a drug company bribed doctors and politicians to prescribe addictive opiates in Appalachia, the inner cities, and eventually suburbia. Same thing now is happening with “weight loss” drugs like Ozempic. A Danish company’s drug is banned dangerous in their own country, but they’re paying US politicians to allow it in America.
Asthma inhalers. I have saved of five or six inhalers in case I were to need one some day, though I haven’t needed one in years. I am forwarding them on to Matthew, who still struggles with coughing and breathing sometimes.
I did have several old pair of my glasses and readers stashed here and there. I might’ve gotten rid of a few of them. Used to have a pair of drug store readers that I loved. Man lately my eyes have been dry. My eyes ain’t what they used to be, especially in my right eye after that “stroke” that I had in my eye several years ago. Hard to read with that eye, and I can’t see a baseball thrown to me. On Monday Will was strapping his girls into the car and grabbed a football and threw it to me. I really had to concentrate. Hard for me to hear in crowds as well. A couple of my friends already wear hearing aids. Will probably be in my future at some point.
One of my many bad habits / hobbies is entering sweepstakes while sitting around watching TV at night. I try to pass on those hard to enter. I look for cars, cash $10000 & over, trips to Europe, Japan, Alaska, Disney, or other interesting places, and maybe other prizes that look fun. Here are a few recent ones that I have stumbled across.
Ever see the commercials about the people who start acting like their parents after becoming homeowners? I have a coworker who acts exactly like those people in the commercial.
CHRISTY MATHEWSON [SABR Bio] was denied the chance to pitch in his first World Series because of a personal grudge. The New York Giants cruised to 106 wins in 1904, with 33 of those wins belonging to Mathewson. But because of acrid relationship between NYG manager John McGraw and AL Founder/President Ban Johnson, no postseason games were held that year. His streak of 12 straight 20-win seasons is the longest in the 20th century. From 1903 through 1914, Big Six never won fewer than 22 games, with a .710 winning percentage, averaged 323 innings a year, and an ERA barely over 2.00. He avoided pitching on Sundays, in accordance with his mother’s wishes.
DENISON: In the book The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, technology billionaire Alexander C. Karp and his deputy Nicholas W. Zamiska warn “abandonment of belief” has “left us unable to confront issues with moral clarity” and “an aspirational desire for tolerance of everything has descended into support of nothing”.
DENISON: a Gallup poll shows that only 22% of Americans are satisfied with the nation’s “moral and ethical climate.” Do we need to turn to religion in response?
Luke 7:1-10 Temptations to Sin:
1. Jesus said to his disciples” Temptations are sure to come. woe to the one through whom they come!
2. It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast in to the sea than should he cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3. Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
4. If he sins against you seven times in one day, and turns to you seven times, saying I repent, you must forgive him.
5. The apostles said to Jesus: Increase our faith!
6. Jesus said If you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree “Be uprooted and planted in the sea” and it would obey you.
7. Will any of you who plowed fields or kept sheep say to him when he comes in from the field “Come at once and recline at the table”?
8. Will he not rather say to him “Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink”?
9. Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
10. So you also, when you do all that you were commanded, say “We are unworthy servants, we have only done what was our duty”.
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