Opening Stuff:
Who woulda thunk it! It's T-Day week. Jeez, I still think it's September. Time flies for romantic fools with their heads in the clouds.
If you like entering the day triumphantly, trying waking up to Ottorini Respighi's 4th Movement of his 2nd Suite of Ancient Airs & Dances. The 3rd movement, BTW, is a pleasant entry into the 4th, just in case you don't like abrupt awakenings! Frankly, you can't go wrong with music touched by Respighi.
If you lose something, just remember that it is always going to be somewhere.
The Question:
I was thinking as I read that Stan "The Man" Musial had turned 90 that truly great players get lost in the over exposure of modern day athletes. How do you think Musial ranks all time against other super stars.
The Headlines:
--Irish Banking Industry To Shrink As Part Of EU Bailout deal; Irish banks Will be Pruned, Sold Or Merged.--World Stocks Flat As Worries Of Ireland Financial Consequences Remain.
--US Economic Growth To remain Steady But Slow For 2011; High Unemployment And Debt Block Soaring turn-Around.
==Gates And Military Chiefs Concerned Over New Evidence Of Nuke Developement In North Korea.
--Gas Preventing rescue At NZ Mine Collapse; Hopes Wane.
--Israel Parliament Expected To Approve Bill That Would Dispel Hopes For Future Palestine, Syria Peace Deals.
Back to More Stuff:
Anything for Dollars Department:
The big new trend in NCAA football is games in baseball stadiums. The Ya-Ya-Ya... (WYKWIM) ... Stadium extravaganza of the past weekend pitted a 5-5 team against a 6-4 team (Against so-so competition) with the promotional theme being "They had a great game in 1946". Of course Army and Notre Dame are storied in football lore, but so are Yale and Dartmouth. And even Lehigh and Lafayette. Which just goes to show you, You can sell New Yorkers just about anything if you promote it right. It's even nuttier in Chicago for the first time "Wrigleyville Classic", Because running into brick walls with your head is a bad idea, the officials have come up with an even worse idea. All offensive plays will go the same way! Yikes. That's offensive alright!
American car designers seem to have lost touch with the word "Distinctive".
One of the best sandwiches I have had in a long time was at, believe it or not, Friendly's Ice Cream store. It was a Pesto chicken on focacia bread with several cheeses including Romano. Of course, I have never forgiven them for eliminating their very delicious original "Big Beef" Sandwich.
And then we have this from my favorite Junk Food protege: "Those new Dunkin Donut sausage wrapped in pancakes suck."...as in inedible.
Somehow the name "Bank of America" Skating Rink in downtown Providence loses its local charm.
0-Man is just using a page out of the Clinton playbook: Heavy up on the global scheduling the months after the first term midterm elections. I thought the Messiah just got back from Asia, and this morn I look upon to see him on the Portugal stage.
A friend came to the house last night. He first asked "Where is your Rest room?" Hell, when you get older, you tend to rest in any room.
A biz analyst in TV said yesterday that a country like the US of A can't grow without inflation. Think about that for a minute. What he is basically saying is that Americans are so saturated with stuff, that they don't really need anything more. So you just have to continually have to mark-up prices on essentials to move numbers upward. Obviously it all reverts back to the need for companies show new revenues to increase stock prices. That's how you build houses of cards. That's why booms turn so quickly to bust. So, once the "Boom" word is attached to the economy it may be a good time to go conservative.
The Hollywood/Beverly Hills shooting of Publicist Chasen is still a mystery...and a great one at that.
The Congressional Newbie School has a ratio of 9 Republicans for each new Democrat. Local newbie Cicilini now knows how his RI GOP brethren feel in the RI Assembly. Don't count on him becoming empathetic real soon, though.
While we are in RI, how about that new Governor Elect Chafee. His promise to retract or cancel the Exec Order for e-Verify is all tied to his huge debt owed for the Education Union endorsement. By eliminating the order, Chafee sends out a gold plated invitation, or should I say credit card, to all lawbreaking sneaks who came to the country illegally. (Unlike millions upon millions of good immigrants who did it the right way). The first stop upon arrival in RI will be the Social Services office where they all receive health and assorted benefits at taxpayer expense. Of course they bring children and RI Law says for every 15 new kids you need a new teacher. And then of course a huge percentage can't speak English so these kids are automatically classified as "Special need" children requiring more expensive Special Need teachers. And the beat goes on. And, believe me, this is just step one.
Actually, during the decline of GM, American car designers idea of "Distinctive" was stand-out ugly. Or was that when the accountants were designing the cars?
This is that time of year when newspapers write daily about holiday "stress". I seriously doubt if there would be that much stress if not reminded of it by insecure journalists.
And then they add to created stress when the food editors try to make Thanksgiving Dinners with all the trimmings and gravy and pecan pie...Calorie Free. Nothing like adding a little guilt to increase stress.
The Answer:
No matter what my team loyalties were, I followed Ted Williams and Stan Musial as a true fan with stars in my eyes. I love the way left handed Stan turned on a ball. Among Hall Of Fame outfielders on the Sabermetrics Chart, it is Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Willie Mays, Tris Speaker, Hank Aaron and Stan Musial. Among all players in the Hall, the only others who rank higher are Walter "Big Train" Johnson, Cy Young, Nap Lajoie, Rogers Hornsby, Honus Wagner and Mike Schmidt rank higher.
The End:
Wouldn't be nice if Cinderella's Fairy Godmother hovered over the RI General Assembly and turned those pumpkins into honest realists.
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