No more heroes.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,847

Bring Back People:

 

I miss loyalty of fans to teams and teams to fans. The inner enjoyment of rooting for your heroes who, before the emergence of the Curt Flood era, would stay with their teams, becoming like members of the community. And we would with our hearts through thick and thin. Teams run by mathematicians just don’t have the same heart. Yet today, many fans like the idea of trading and deals. Maybe sports fanaticism has passed me by.

 

Whoever invented knock, knock jokes should get a no bell prize

 

I immediately thought of Ben Hogan when I heard of Tiger Woods’ accident yesterday. Ben after a terrible accident in the late 1940’s that should have killed him, went on to become of the icons of golf lore after painful courageous rehabilitation. But he was younger than Tiger. You have to wonder how Tiger’s legs will stand up to the rigors of professional championship golf. It will be a challenge for the great one to come all the way back, but old Woods has beaten big physical challenges before.

 

What would be the result of a massive all Cyber WWIII? It seems we could get there quite easily.  The possible ramifications are endless, and could be devastating to societies. Maybe more than any bomb.

 

The Question:

Here is a Question that will certainly generate arguments. Who are considered the Top Ten All Time Best Golfers?

 

The Headlines:

--Tech Stocks Under Pressure Early As Investors Look To Value Stocks, Stocks Left Behind During Growth Stock Runup;  Dow Bounces Back Well After Weak, Negative Opening; Nasdaq Comes back after Morning Dip.

--Biden OMB Director Nominee Neera Tanden In Trouble; Controversial Nominee Insults Everybody; Losing Support Of Dems And Repubs

--Biden Signs Exec Order To Have US Officials Look At US Key Industry Dependence On Foreign Suppliers; China Targeted As Supplier Of Material For EV Batteries, Consumer Computer Chips, Pharmaceuticals and Minerals for Electronics. 

--Hong Kong Freedoms Disappearing As Last Remnants of Political Opposition Have Been Removed.

EU Hitting Russia With More Sanctions Over Navalny.

--Putin Orders His Top Counterintelligence People To Aggressively Address Western cyber Attempts To Destabilize The Country.

 

Mitt Romney said yesterday that if Trump plans to run in 2024 he will win Repub nomination in a landslide. Hmmm. For what remains of republicans.

 

Five of six scientists say Russian Roulette is safe.

 

The new Biden Press secretary, Jen Psaki, just looks condescending.

The last thing any sensible country should want is having its citizens getting used to Government hand out checks.

 

A Spanish magician has a grand magical show and at the end he says he will disappear after counting to three. He starts to count, "Un, dos..." Kazaam! He vanished without a tres.

 

Ken Jennings turned out to be a very good replacement for the departed Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. But I tis selection process of trying to find AT’s replacement we now have as the temp host a the Jeopardy Executive Producer named Mike Richards. He doesn’t compare to Jennings. To me he comes across as too much a corporate mechanic. There will be many more hosts tested including Katie Couric, Aaron Rogers, Bill Whitaker and Mayim Bialik.

 

I worked at a pretty good publishing company that was swallowed by a big fish that was swallowed by a whale. Every new CEO who came in was basically an accountant whose words were always, “I am a people person”. They obviously had no concept of the intelligence of the people to whom they were talking.

 

Nobody has ever complained about their parachute not opening.

 

I always felt that quarterly profit reporting killed American industry.

 

“Not one politician has died from the virus, lost their job, had their business or home looted, missed a haircut, worried about where their next paycheck was coming from, or wears a mask (unless on camera.) I don’t know, but it sure feels like we are being played.” –Rip McIntosh

 

The Answer:

Number Ten on this list is Byron Nelson. #9 Is Tom Watson followed by #8 Bobby Jones, #7 Sam Snead, #6 Gary Player, #5 ben Hogan, #4 Arnold Palma er, #3 Walter Hagan, #2 Tiger Woods. And of course, tat must mean that Jack Nicklaus. Another list has the same Ten, but lists Hogan as #3. Another list replaces tom Watson with Phil Michelson. And yet another list dropped Hagan and Player for Lee Trevino and Michelson, But Hagan and Player are numbers 11 and 12. This last list also goes to 100. Here’s the rest of the top 25. After Player we have Gene Sarazen, Fred Couples, Nick Faldo, Dustin Johnson, Harry Vardon, Young Tom Maoris, Old Tom Morris, Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer, Seve Ballesteros, Johnny Miller, Nick Price and at #25 -- Hale Irwin.

 

When the world is all awhirl. holding a loving hand will bring the calm.

 

And the Lord said unto John, "Come forth and receive eternal life."

But John came fifth and won a toaster.