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Cosmic Quote #81: Play Ball!

April 1, 2017 by 2 Comments

“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”–Vin Scully

Non Sequitur

Ah, it’s that time of the year again.  And the statistical probability is that I will be distracted to no end.  But the baseball season won’t be quite the same without Vin Scully.  He started calling games the year I was born and that was–er, that was–damned if I’m telling.  Just watch the games and keep score.   (If you’re a blasphemer and don’t like baseball, try my other blog (and podcast) at www.seekingdelphi.com.

 

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Cosmic Quote #63

March 9, 2016 by 2 Comments

Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘lets’s party!’–Robin Williams

Give me my golf clubs, some fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and to hell with the fresh air and the golf clubs.–Jack Benny

funny-spring-photos6Based on the winter we’ve had here in the northeast USA, I’d have to say nature has been partying on and off since December.  That’s a good thing for my fuel bill;  for the long term of humanity,  pardon the metaphor, it might not be so hot.  At any rate, it’s time for second spring for this blog and for my life…I’m embarking on a retirement career that I’ll write about soon.

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Cosmic Quote #52: Play Ball!

March 30, 2015 by 2 Comments

“There are three things you can do in a baseball game.  You can win, you can lose, or it can rain.”–Casey Stengel

brrrrr

brrrrr

Unfortunately, there is a fourth thing that can happen.  It can snow.  And as that is exactly what it is currently doing outside my window right now, I thought I’d get a head start on this coming Sunday’s Major League Baseball opener and give spring some encouragement.   Stay warm and dry, my friends.

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Cosmic Quote #21

April 22, 2013 by 1 Comment

“What do I do in the winter when there is no baseball?  I look out the window and wait for spring.”–Rogers Hornsby

I have previously posted this picture.    This is how I feel when spring has finally sprung. (That’s not me in the picture, I have no idea who it is.  My camera timing was just perfect, and more than a bit lucky.)

Pura Vida. A beach near Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica.January, 2008. Copyright Mark Sackler, 2008.

Pura Vida.  Copyright Mark Sackler, 2008.

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Time In: Play Ball!

March 31, 2013 by 18 Comments

“The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor.” — Cincinnati Gazette editorial, 1879

“A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I’d rather walk with the bases loaded.” — Ken Singleton

opening-dayAh, Spring!   Instead of spending my leisure hours indoors, drinking beer and watching old movies, I can spend them outdoors, drinking beer and watching baseball.

For years we had a little wooden plaque hanging on our kitchen wall that my wife found at a craft fair,  inscribed with the missive “We interrupt this marriage to bring you the baseball season.”   Today?  It’s not that the more things change the more they stay the same, it’s that some things never change.  At any rate, my wife will be out riding her horse every weekend while the weather is nice, so who’s ignoring whom?  We interrupt this blog to bring you the baseball season…

Hope springs eternal.

Hope springs eternal.

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