Ever the lad with a mitt.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,123 

Conflicting emotions: 

 

 

Whack! Smack! Do you hear that! Those wonderful, heartening sounds echoing across the land. The true melody of spring. Yes, we will again hear the whack of balls against white ash bats and the smacks of balls pounding into soft leather mitts. And soon the roar of crowds marveling at the grace of diving infielders, the magnificent throws from outfielders, the running and the slides; the lofty, heart stopping home run, I can hardly wait. I love baseball. 

 

Speaking of Spring, you will be setting your clock ahead Sunday night. The night owls will think the sunlight suddenly became longer. And the mourning doves will awaken to caressing grays of gentle night.  

 

There seems to be a re-evaluation going on about actual Covid deaths. It will measure Deaths directly due to Covid versus deaths of another cause but where Covid was discovered after the fact. If anybody releases the study it will be interesting, and nice to be back into reality instead of reacting to Hyperbole again. 

 

Nurse: “Doctor, there’s a patient on line one that says he’s invisible.” Doc: “Well, tell him I can’t see him right now." 

 

The Question: 

Which MLB Teams have the highest payrolls. 

 

The Headlines: 

--MLB And Players Union Agree On Contract. 

--Markets Open Higher After Putin Sees Positive Developments In Talks. 

--Russia Widens Attacks On Ukraine Cities; Now Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, And Dnipro; Russia Increasing Airstrikes. 

--G7 May Strip Russia Of Favored Nation Status. 

--India Said It Accidently Fired Missile Into Pakistan. 

--Putin Talks Of Nationalizing Western Businesses. 

--China Locks Down City Of 9 Million After New Spike In Covid Cases. 

--Warsaw Overwhelmed With Refugees. 

 

If you are writing lyrical words and there is nobody there to hear the tune, are they still words? 

 

In case you forgot, in 1918 influenza killed 20-40 Million human beings. They just didn’t have data scientists then. But it was overwhelming by any measure. Today we seem to believe that news begins and ends in a day and we go on. We forget about history books and similarities of then that have relevance to now. 

 

Speaking of history knowledge, the last remaining US participant in the “Enola Gay” raids, Theodore " Dutch " J. Van Kirk the navigator, was asked to speak to a school. The young history teacher in charge introduced him as a soldier from World War Eleven! 

 

You know that daylight savings time is nothing more than the transfer of psychological traumas. I’m doing the same with gas fill-ups. I fill up more often to keep the cost in a more pleasant $20 zone. Reduces stabbing pains. 

 

Why we have Commas, Department: 

“How to cook crack and clean crabs.” 

 

I'm a decent sort of guy, mostly calm and relaxed... except when it comes to passwords and sites that I use regularly who say they never heard of me.  

 

If a parsley farmer gets sued, can they garnish his wages? 

 

So, what happens next? Eventually Russia takes over Ukraine and Putin is a pariah, and he doesn’t care. Courts try convict him in absentia for crimes against humanity. And he doesn't care. The fighting ends and life goes on in the rest of the planet as if it never happened. Except it did for the Ukrainians who now are dispersed to the countries of the world or are facing an unkind life under a despotic rule. Rebuilding crumbled cities. Looking for a place to sleep. Trying to find love in their hearts again somehow. And Other countries still need Russia energy, and they forget about the ruthless man, and open up the faucets again.  

 

The Answer: 

#1 Highest MLB Team is the NY Mets (#235M). It is followed by LA Dodgers, NY Ya, Ya, Ya, (WYKWIM), San Deigo, ChiSox, The Phillies, My beloveds the Red Sox, LA Angels and at #10, Houston($157M). The five teams with the smallest payrolls are Cleveland ($29), Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Miami and Arizona ($66M). 

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!