Something I didn't see coming was that one day I'd receive coupons in the mail addressed to "Resident" for a local dispensary.
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Estrellas scored in the bottom of the ninth to defeat Escogido 4-3 yesterday. Miguel Sano was back and went 0-for-4. Raimel Tapia was 2-for-4. Dairon Blanco was 2-for-5 with a double and drove in the winning run. Jorge Martinez started and pitched 6.1 innings, giving up two runs on three hits and two walks and striking out five. The win went to Neftali Feliz (1-0), who blew the save in the top of the ninth. He allowed one run on two hits and a walk in one inning.
Caribes fell behind 7-0 after two innings and lost to La Guaira 12-4. Balbino Fuenmayor was 2-for-4 with a home run, his eighth. Ex-Twin Engelb Vielma was 2-for-4. Starter Jesus Paricaguan lasted just two thirds of an inning, allowing four runs on four hits and a walk. He is 0-3.
I didn't know Sano was playing again. Picking up where he left off I see.
R. I. P. George McGinnis, at age 73, an age which does not sound at all old to me anymore.
Missed this LTE. And, no, it doesn't sound so old anymore.
Hospitals are no fun. Intestinal ischemia is no fun. Sepsis is no fun. Emergency abdominal surgery is no fun. Recovery is no fun, either.
Hang in there. We're all thinking about you.
Oof. I hope you're on the road to recovery. That sounds incredibly trying, challenging, painful, and scary.
Sepsis is no joke. We lost a very close friend to it+COVID this fall. 49 years old.
If you ever are sweating profusely for no reason, please get thee to an ER immediately. A symptom of sepsis is low blood pressure. A symptom of low blood pressure is sweating.
Be safe out there, friends.
I have recently been there, brother, and all those things are true. Recovery for me has been long and hard. I've leaned heavily on family and friends to get thru it.
I'm down 70 lbs, regular, and running again - glad to be back in the saddle.
You gotta stay positive.
Sending best wishes for endurance of spirit and steady recovery. I’ve been the primary support during two emergency abdominal surgeries and neither time was I in doubt about how excruciating the pain was or how dire the implications of intestinal distress.
Glad you’re on the mend. Remember to look after the non-physical parts of healing, too. That’s a harrowing experience.
Oof. Get well, man.
(I will be back in the Cities next week. Not sure whether/how I can get the camera stuff to you, but I will try)
Ooh - perhaps a Walk With Bo while you are here - I come in on Sun nite for 2 weeks.
Would be fun. But this is a short trip with 3 evenings already booked and elderly parents to attend to. We fly to NYC on Christmas day.
Went to the City last weekend for the night. NBBW wanted to do Bryant Park, and we had an upscale Mexicana dinner at Tacuba Hell's Kitchen - I really enjoyed the molcajete with charred habanero salsa.
Oooooh. That sounds really good!
You are in our prayers.
Oh my goodness, sending you wishes for an excellent care team and a smooth recovery.
Get well soon.
Dallas punched the Wolves in the throat for 3 minutes yet the Wolves will come away with a double digit victory. Luka got his points but they were hard earned. What an impressive victory by the local cagers.
I don't think it is too much hyperbole to say that he was kind of the Lebron James of the early 1970s. He could do it all.
From his NYT obit:
“Big guys in my era couldn’t handle the ball,” he said in an interview with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame before he was inducted into it in 2017, an honor that many believed was egregiously overdue 35 years after he retired. “But I could dribble with my left hand, my right hand and take guys outside.”
He credited those skills to the coaching he had growing up in Indiana, where “fundamentals are well taught,” he said.
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Len Elmore, a Pacers teammate for one season — McGinnis’s last in Indiana before joining the 76ers in 1975 — said in a telephone interview that he harked back to McGinnis when LeBron James, slightly bigger at 6-foot-9 and 250 pounds, entered the N.B.A. in 2003 with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
“Similar size, strength, mobility,” Elmore said, “I remember saying it immediately — George was LeBron before LeBron. You couldn’t believe that with his body he could be that agile.”
Started my Ortho journey today with an appt for my ("good") shoulder. Sonogram revealed no tears in the rotator cuff, but some inflammation, along with progressing arthritis. Doc gave me an injection to, hopefully, calm it down.
Saturday I get an MRI for my left ("bad") knee. I suspect a strained MCL. Follow up with a different Ortho on Monday.
On the good side, MCL tears and strains generally heal on their own, and my knee is slowly getting better.
Getting old: still better than not.
Did your doc say whether you’ll be ready for Spring Training? There are some vacancies in the rotation.
Good luck with the MCL. Hope tomorrow’s imaging brings clarity.
No doubt Doc'll be in The Best Shape Of His Life (TM) by the time camp rolls around
I had to stop throwing the ever-livin' fire out of the ball right-handed about 12 years ago and switched to left-handed. I'm switching back again.
Estrellas scored in the bottom of the ninth to defeat Escogido 4-3 yesterday. Miguel Sano was back and went 0-for-4. Raimel Tapia was 2-for-4. Dairon Blanco was 2-for-5 with a double and drove in the winning run. Jorge Martinez started and pitched 6.1 innings, giving up two runs on three hits and two walks and striking out five. The win went to Neftali Feliz (1-0), who blew the save in the top of the ninth. He allowed one run on two hits and a walk in one inning.
Caribes fell behind 7-0 after two innings and lost to La Guaira 12-4. Balbino Fuenmayor was 2-for-4 with a home run, his eighth. Ex-Twin Engelb Vielma was 2-for-4. Starter Jesus Paricaguan lasted just two thirds of an inning, allowing four runs on four hits and a walk. He is 0-3.
I didn't know Sano was playing again. Picking up where he left off I see.
R. I. P. George McGinnis, at age 73, an age which does not sound at all old to me anymore.
Missed this LTE. And, no, it doesn't sound so old anymore.
Dietrich Enns, is once again a Twin.
I see what you did there...
Hospitals are no fun. Intestinal ischemia is no fun. Sepsis is no fun. Emergency abdominal surgery is no fun. Recovery is no fun, either.
Hang in there. We're all thinking about you.
Oof. I hope you're on the road to recovery. That sounds incredibly trying, challenging, painful, and scary.
Sepsis is no joke. We lost a very close friend to it+COVID this fall. 49 years old.
If you ever are sweating profusely for no reason, please get thee to an ER immediately. A symptom of sepsis is low blood pressure. A symptom of low blood pressure is sweating.
Be safe out there, friends.
I have recently been there, brother, and all those things are true. Recovery for me has been long and hard. I've leaned heavily on family and friends to get thru it.
I'm down 70 lbs, regular, and running again - glad to be back in the saddle.
You gotta stay positive.
Sending best wishes for endurance of spirit and steady recovery. I’ve been the primary support during two emergency abdominal surgeries and neither time was I in doubt about how excruciating the pain was or how dire the implications of intestinal distress.
Glad you’re on the mend. Remember to look after the non-physical parts of healing, too. That’s a harrowing experience.
Oof. Get well, man.
(I will be back in the Cities next week. Not sure whether/how I can get the camera stuff to you, but I will try)
Ooh - perhaps a Walk With Bo while you are here - I come in on Sun nite for 2 weeks.
Would be fun. But this is a short trip with 3 evenings already booked and elderly parents to attend to. We fly to NYC on Christmas day.
Went to the City last weekend for the night. NBBW wanted to do Bryant Park, and we had an upscale Mexicana dinner at Tacuba Hell's Kitchen - I really enjoyed the molcajete with charred habanero salsa.
Oooooh. That sounds really good!
You are in our prayers.
Oh my goodness, sending you wishes for an excellent care team and a smooth recovery.
Get well soon.
Dallas punched the Wolves in the throat for 3 minutes yet the Wolves will come away with a double digit victory. Luka got his points but they were hard earned. What an impressive victory by the local cagers.
Naz Reid
Awoooooo
RIP, George McGinnis.
I don't think it is too much hyperbole to say that he was kind of the Lebron James of the early 1970s. He could do it all.
From his NYT obit:
Started my Ortho journey today with an appt for my ("good") shoulder. Sonogram revealed no tears in the rotator cuff, but some inflammation, along with progressing arthritis. Doc gave me an injection to, hopefully, calm it down.
Saturday I get an MRI for my left ("bad") knee. I suspect a strained MCL. Follow up with a different Ortho on Monday.
On the good side, MCL tears and strains generally heal on their own, and my knee is slowly getting better.
Getting old: still better than not.
Did your doc say whether you’ll be ready for Spring Training? There are some vacancies in the rotation.
Good luck with the MCL. Hope tomorrow’s imaging brings clarity.
No doubt Doc'll be in The Best Shape Of His Life (TM) by the time camp rolls around
I had to stop throwing the ever-livin' fire out of the ball right-handed about 12 years ago and switched to left-handed. I'm switching back again.