jimoh
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Post by jimoh on Oct 9, 2020 5:50:11 GMT -5
"Charles Peterson, a high school sports star in South Carolina who played minor league baseball for 14 seasons before becoming a professional baseball scout and a volunteer football coach, died on Sept. 13 in Columbia, S.C. He was 46. His sister-in-law Missy South said the cause was complications of Covid-19. ...a scout for the St. Louis Cardinals... In June he signed the team’s top draft pick, Jordan Walker, a third baseman. ...In 1993, after batting .429 as an outfielder for the Laurens [high school] Raiders and pitching to a 4-1 record, he was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of baseball’s amateur draft. He played at various levels in the Pirates’ system, for independent minor league teams and in Mexico and Taiwan, but never reached the big leagues." www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/obituaries/charles-peterson-dead-covid.htmlwww.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=peters006cha
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Post by Coreno on Oct 9, 2020 10:10:58 GMT -5
Lmao how is that a millennial thing?
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Post by incandenza on Oct 9, 2020 12:12:58 GMT -5
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Post by Smittyw on Oct 9, 2020 13:46:09 GMT -5
Not to mention that millennials (born 1981-1996) have been playing baseball for quite a while now.
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Post by manfred on Oct 9, 2020 16:08:47 GMT -5
There was a poll that showed millennials had a far lower response to the question “have you always believed the Earth is round” than other age groups. Buuuttt... the results were sort of inflated to say 1/3 of millennials were flat Earthers, which isn’t true either. And it was not the full millennial cohort (since they run now into the 30s). www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/04/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round/#e102a777ec66It is all kind of silly. But a few famous people like Kyrie Irving have expressed doubts in, you know, Earth’s real shape, so it has become kind of a thing.
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Post by dd on Oct 9, 2020 16:22:50 GMT -5
There was a poll that showed millennials had a far lower response to the question “have you always believed the Earth is round” than other age groups. Buuuttt... the results were sort of inflated to say 1/3 of millennials were flat Earthers, which isn’t true either. And it was not the full millennial cohort (since they run now into the 30s). www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/04/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round/#e102a777ec66It is all kind of silly. But a few famous people like Kyrie Irving have expressed doubts in, you know, Earth’s real shape, so it has become kind of a thing. What scares me about this is that they're probably all registered voters! (Nothing political intended there, just a comment on dummies.)
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 9, 2020 19:19:37 GMT -5
Another great pitcher and Korean War vet has died: I remember him pretty vividly. www.mlb.com/news/whitey-ford-diesWhitey is on a very short list of my favorite Yankees.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Oct 10, 2020 0:47:22 GMT -5
There was a poll that showed millennials had a far lower response to the question “have you always believed the Earth is round” than other age groups. Buuuttt... the results were sort of inflated to say 1/3 of millennials were flat Earthers, which isn’t true either. And it was not the full millennial cohort (since they run now into the 30s). www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/04/04/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round/#e102a777ec66It is all kind of silly. But a few famous people like Kyrie Irving have expressed doubts in, you know, Earth’s real shape, so it has become kind of a thing. What scares me about this is that they're probably all registered voters! (Nothing political intended there, just a comment on dummies.) Some registered voters have always been scary, it's part of democracy and a given here in rural parts of the West. What is very different is that they can find each other these days. That's a function of having introduced dozens, even hundreds, of new communication channels that completely short-circuit any gate-keeping. When was the last time someone from Whidbey Island, Washington could have their flat-earth meanderings go global? There's also a little... wait for it... money involved, of course. Got to keep the customers on edge. Now that this stuff is out there for all to ponder, we can hope critical thinking isn't too far behind. Until people felt they could have their say, and that's what those powerful little globally networked computing devices (aka smartphones) give them, we were always going to have to deal with it, but in the shadows. Now that it's in the sunlight, it may not look so enticing after a while. The idea for dealing with this stuff is not dissimilar to what happens on this board. The shit-detectors work well and people get called out by posters if their blowing steam. And yes, there is some gate-keeping.
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Post by manfred on Oct 10, 2020 10:16:02 GMT -5
What scares me about this is that they're probably all registered voters! (Nothing political intended there, just a comment on dummies.) Some registered voters have always been scary, it's part of democracy and a given here in rural parts of the West. What is very different is that they can find each other these days. That's a function of having introduced dozens, even hundreds, of new communication channels that completely short-circuit any gate-keeping. When was the last time someone from Whidbey Island, Washington could have their flat-earth meanderings go global? There's also a little... wait for it... money involved, of course. Got to keep the customers on edge. Now that this stuff is out there for all to ponder, we can hope critical thinking isn't too far behind. Until people felt they could have their say, and that's what those powerful little globally networked computing devices (aka smartphones) give them, we were always going to have to deal with it, but in the shadows. Now that it's in the sunlight, it may not look so enticing after a while. The idea for dealing with this stuff is not dissimilar to what happens on this board. The shit-detectors work well and people get called out by posters if their blowing steam. And yes, there is some gate-keeping. The problem is that the craziness has come to mask itself *as* critical thinking. Just think of QAnon people calling others “sheeple” and saying they’ve “been researching.” But things are as they have been. Just read Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and sigh. As Horace wrote, what are you laughing at? change the names and the story remains the same.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 10, 2020 21:09:11 GMT -5
MLB pipeline is doing alternate site reports but haven't gotten to the Red Sox yet. www.mlb.com/pipeline
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Post by vermontsox1 on Oct 12, 2020 10:23:04 GMT -5
White Sox fired Rick Renteria. Obviously will be a fairly enticing job.
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Post by greenmonster on Oct 12, 2020 10:42:51 GMT -5
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 14, 2020 21:16:00 GMT -5
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 21, 2020 11:21:39 GMT -5
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 24, 2020 5:15:31 GMT -5
Gotta share:
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Oct 27, 2020 7:57:14 GMT -5
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