How About That?

This Week in Baseball starts up again tomorrow with a heavy focus on the trip to Japan.  Should be some good viewing.

As a kid, TWiB was the only thing connecting me (and pretty much everyone else) to baseball outside of my own team.  I loved watching the bloopers and all the great plays but I especially liked hearing about what other teams were doing in the league.  In the pre-ESPN and internet days, it’s all we had to go on besides baseball cards!  While we know a lot more about each team now, it’s still a fun watch.  Be forewarned, you’ll have to sit through some Yankee Stadium stuff too, but all in all I think it’s worth checking out tomorrow.

It’s pouring out right now.  The kind of morning you wake up and think, “Damn, no way they’re playing tonight!” and then remember that they’re in Toronto so it’s all good.

Baseball tonight.  At 7:05!!!!  No afternoon game on a weekday – no 10pm game – no 6AM game – 7:05pm people – be there!

On a note unrelated to baseball – today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  I read somewhere once that 1968 was considered the ‘worst year’ in American history for all that happened during it.  I was supposed to be born in January of 1969 and made it under the wire by a few days.  A 1968 Christmas present for my folks or “pretty much the only good thing that happened that year” as I’ve been told.  So the events of 1968 have always affected me deeply.  As if there was a reason for my being born that same year when I wasn’t supposed to be.  I think it’s what triggered my nerdiness for history.  As I turn 40 at the end of the year, I’ve been very reflective on the events of that time.

So I urge you to seek out an article on what happened forty years ago today in Memphis.  Just to remember how bad things were, how much things have changed – yet how much work there still is to do.

Photo taken from AFSCME

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