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June 24, 2023: There It Is

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Some summer like weather will be coming to town this weekend. I have not minded the mild temps so far. Oh, and we could get this thing we used to get called "rain" too.

27 thoughts on “June 24, 2023: There It Is”

  1. El@n sucks for so many reasons, but casually dismantling the verification system is up towards the top. Having to wade through all the $8/mo experts during a possibly monumental developing story to get to information that may or may not be real is lame.

    2. This is even a worse tweets machine development

      1. Pretty sure the WGOM's account also had its access revoked. I'm hoping the Mastodon side will be running soon. I haven't checked any other tweeter options.

      2. A lot of great accounts are getting hit by this. Ridiculous. The Front Page of the Internet has similarly minded people in charge it seems.

    3. I was a young news producer when the Iron Curtain came down, this feels a little bit like that even though it's definitely not a grassroots uprising. Authoritarian rulers can last a long time but their ends can be sudden and violent. Back then there was a brand new kind of journalism on Fox that was making waves, tabloid TV they called it, ushered in by Bill O'Reilly and A Current Affair. Everything old is new again.

  2. When was the last time the Twins had an Elly De La Cruz? A super hyped prospect that took the league by storm as soon as they arrived? Royce could have, but got injured right away. Buxton started with a whimper. Mauer might have, but he lost almost his entire rookie season to injury and it took him two more years to become elite. Santana and Puckett were not super hyped and took a couple years as well. Tony Oliva in 64?

      1. How hyped was he? He had a great year in AAA in 2005 but I don't remember how much he was talked about

    3. David McCarty comes to mind. Card collectors at the very least were gobbling him up, and when we buy collections from then, he’s always got his own section (like Todd Van Poppel).

    4. Sir Rodney? I don't know how hyped he was, but an All Star and ROY. First of 18 consecutive A-S appearances. Debuted at 21, making the leap from A ball onto a pennant contender.

  3. Bought our Milan -> Turin train tickets for October; still need to get our Turin -> Florence tickets yet. I'm really looking forward to my first high-speed ride (hopefully Frecciarossa). Booking took a little finangling, what with different fares, classes, and even multiple stations per city. But the price was certainly very reasonable

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