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August 16, 2018: Free Tickets

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My brother got four tickets from his Pepsi rep that he can't use, so it turns out the Milks and I will be at tonight's game. Right field, lower deck. Anyone else going?

63 thoughts on “August 16, 2018: Free Tickets”

  1. I'm going, and I have an extra ticket to whomever wants it (email me at wyoung at gwu dot edu). We can crash the Whole Family's party.

    2. I'm on the fence about tonight's game, but I'm downtown already so ... I'll probably be there. Maybe. Probably.

      While we're on the subject I have 17 16 flex tickets to use still and I have different tickets to two other games, so I'll be at a lot of games still and if anyone wants to come to a game with me shoot me a line at my gmail.

      In my first season as a Season ticket holder, I've used more of not my tickets, but I've also been to the most games in a season I've ever attended.

  2. I've been watching and entertaining series The History of Comedy on CNN (the second season?) and they were covering comedy duos/teams. I guess I didn't know that Abbott and Costello didn't write "Who's on First?" but were the ones who made if famous. Apparently comedians borrowed each others gags a lot back in the day, and they were pretty pissed when Abbott & Costello made it big and made "Who's on First?" ubiquitous to them.

    1. That's silly that others are mad when no one knows who wrote it. "We're doing the same routine and we're not famous like that." Maybe because you suck at performing it.

        1. now that is a funny comp. I can see his choir singing!!!

          When you call my name it's like a little prayer
          I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there
          In the midnight hour I can feel your power
          Just like a prayer you know I'll take you there

        2. It doesn't surprise me that Madonna is about my age. What surprises me is that "my age" is so darned old.

              1. mine was a reference to the song, which contains the following line:

                I don't remember growing older
                When, did, they?

  4. I was surprised there weren’t any pieces on the Ureña/Acuña imbroglio in The Athletic when I looked this morning. What do folks think should be done?

    1. I saw that local boy Brett Graves finished the game for the Marlins. He's having a mediocre start of his MLB career this season, but just the fact that he got there is a huge success.

      I notice that while Mattingly didn't throw Ureña under the bus, he also didn't defend him. His issue was that if Ureña was throwing at him intentionally, he should have been ejected immediately, not after Acuña's (ejected) manager came back on the field a second time. Good question.

    2. Passan had a column about longer bans and stopping this stuff. I agree entirely. Make it a full month ban, for starters.

      1. Especially for a starting pitcher. A 7 game suspension just means they push his next start back a couple days.

          1. Thought about adding Jeter to the list.

            I honestly don't care if Donnie Baseball is complicit, it was such a stupid move that punishment shouldn't end with the pitcher. Agree 100% with fining the organization.

      3. You get 50 games for banned substances and this is miles worse than that, so I say a full half season.

    3. Is there any past history between the two teams? I'm all for long suspensions on intentional beanings, but I don't see obvious intent. I think I'm not really for a month-long suspension, but longer than seven days is the right thing.

      3. Once you go for the long suspension, there won't be any suspensions because it is nearly impossible to prove intention and players and agents will definitely appeal the suspension and it will be a long drawn-out process. Plus, pitchers wouldn't be stupid enough to stare the batter down after hitting them, etc. Although, in Urena's case, his history would make it pretty easy to make the case that this is something he does with regularity. He is leading the NL in hbps for the second straight year despite a pretty good walk rate, plus a Marlins blogger believed it was intentional and wrote that

        Ureña’s “signature pitch” is the up-and-in fastball to an opponent’s star player.

    4. I'm old enough to remember when Delmon Young got mad at his own pitcher after he got intentionally hit by a pitch because the Twins pitcher (don't remember who) hit someone on the other team. Retaliation was such an ingrained response that Delmon git hit intentionally and no one blamed the pitcher that did it. They blamed the pitcher on the Twins who "started it."

    1. My dad had an Aretha Franklin album. I remember as a kid listening to that album many times. My favorite song on that record was "Chain of Fools". I get that there were many other songs that she had, but for me, Aretha Franklin always brought me back to when I was a little boy, singing along with "Chain, Chain, Chain! Chain of Fooooooools."

      1. Man, the re-recording of "Think" is amazing. She took her took her own song and cranked it up to 11. Also one of the best parts of the movie too.

  6. Book Clubish Thingy Thread

    I was serious in the monthly book chat about maybe doing something book clubish. We decide to read something written somewhere around 200-300 pages, and after 4-6 weeks I'll write a post, and we can discuss. And if you take longer, or read it later, the beauty of it is we can still discuss it in the comments

    Thoughts? Interested?

    1. I'm down.

      Some [okay most] ignore the 200-300 page limit, but here's a (short) selection of books on my "to-read" list:
      Warlock - Oakley Hall (471 pages)
      The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (213 pages)
      The Good War - Studs Terkel (608 pages)
      Killing Floor - Lee Child (525 pages)
      Old Man's War - John Scalzi (332 pages)
      The Plover - Brian Doyle (311 pages)
      Watership Down - Richard Adams (478 pages)

      Could put together a post with a survey and go with the winning selection... or just pick something and get started. I'm fine either way.

      1. its a soft 300ish, I don't really care too much so I don't want to make that seem like a "rule"

        I think the survey seems good for the first go, though what if we split our 2 votes? Read both?

  7. Not sure if any of the Twin Cities legal professionals knew him, but attorney William Lorenzo Brown died Tuesday night in a scuba diving accident. He was a member of our company's board of directors and represented our clients in civil commitment court. Stupid sad.

  8. Indians are only AL Central team to have ever had a player with a 30-30 season. This includes the Senators part of the Twins' history. The only nonexpansion team outside of the AL Central to not ever have a 30-30 season is the St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis Browns had the first 30-30 season in 1922 and never had another one, including after moving to Baltimore. The Indians had two: Joe Carter and Grady Sizemore. The Giants have the record with 7 all because of Barry Bonds, his father Bobby and his Godfather Willie Mays.

  9. Quick Q: is anyone here doing Gleeman and Co's Baseball Prospectus thing on the 25th? I'm kind of intrigued, but I'm not sure how fun it would be.

    1. I heard very good things about last year's. That was from Trueblood, so put whatever size grain of salt (or none) you want on that.

  11. So I asked NBBW to name 5 people from the WGOM (me/her not included):

    Here's what she came up with:
    RhuRu
    Stick (SBG)
    Ubelmann (she wanted to hire him a few years back)
    Spookymilk
    Meat

    Moss and The Dread Pirate were close but I had to help her for those. She also recalled the guy with The Boy (bS).

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