I’ve been waiting a decade for him to get a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nobody spreads more love for baseball, the kids on the Dodgers, the kids on the Dodgers’ opponents, America, and, I don’t know, anything else in the world that’s good.

During a Phillies broadcast this week Vin Scully’s name came up. They mentioned how Scully’s first year calling Dodgers games was Connie Mack’s final year as manager for the A’s. Connie Mack was born during the Civil War!!!

When I learned that Vin Scully called games that Jackie Robinson played in my head pretty much exploded.

Came here to respond to the first Vin truther who tried to pull this. Vin obviously meant that the 13 colonies “signed” the Declaration of Independence through their individual representatives.

Can we make this a series of Vin Scully takes; weekly, daily from current from the past i don’t care i need this in my life.

“And that requizission I put in for spell check 9 years ago has never been honered. This is intolorabel.”

I know everyone around here has an inherent disdain for hyperbole, but fuck it. That was the best regular season any professional sport league has ever had, period!

The NBA is, and will forever be a better product than college basketball and I will fight any of you jabronis who disagrees with me.

Thanks for stopping by, Simmons.

While a very distant third story last night, watching the Celtics overcome a 26-point deficit was also a fun thing in a fun night of basketball.

Watching both of these games at the same time was a lot of fun, there was definitely a feeling of the old era officially dying. Efficiency wasn’t exactly the most prized trait in the world when Kobe first came into the league and Jordan was king.

Oops, did we turn that on?

It’s traditional:

We also have been renaming and rediagnosing. Anyone other than “normal” used to just be called retarded and shuffled off to be ignored. Now we have autism spectrum and some other things. We teach them, do occupational therapy, etc, and try to help them.

Do you think there are more diagnosed cases of autism recorded today than 100 years ago is partly because we understand it better, it is considered a legitimate disorder, the criteria is more clearly defined than it was beforehand, and people have more access to healthcare clinics?

Did you read the article excerpted in the above post? Even if we grant that LaRoche’s intentions and ideals were good (an if I might offer is deeply complicated by his particular form of religious practice) the actual practice he engaged in (the rogue savior/liberator) is itself decidely not good.

“Listen, no disrespect at all, but I honestly don’t care about their grades or how they’re scoring,” he said. “All I care about is two questions: How are they treating their classmates, and how are they treating you?”