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Writers Guild/Ireland. Lead Writer/Managing Director https://cara-wordsmith.com. Author: JIHADI: A LOVE STORY, which Publishers Weekly called "smart and searing." AN UNDIVIDED HEART produced @ Echo Theater in LA. I obsess about baseball. #1947League ADHD
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Yep
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Pay down the karmic national debt...
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Still pondering the karmic debt of a nation that rounds up and deports people, some who are actually US citizens and others who have committed no crimes, to countries not even of their own origin based on the color of their skin. Our karmic debt is larger than our national debt.
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(And while we all wait for #1947League to get back into action tomorrow, let us ponder the generational karmic debt of a nation that makes a bus-full of grown men drive more than an hour to secure a restroom whose proprietors are willing to accept them due to the color of their skin.) #BlackHistory
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it's 58.3 miles, so we are going to give this one to you. :-) What would you like to hear, sir?
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Alas, that guess is HIGH -- which is information that others may or may not choose to use....
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Closest guess that doesn't go over the actual mile distance gets the song choice for tomorrow. #1947League
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‘I remember someone needing to use the bathroom; we had to drive through Richmond to Fredericksburg before we could find a place. We put up with it, overlooked a lot of things we probably shouldn’t have. We wanted to play baseball." -Garnett Blair
How long was that drive in miles? Don't look it up.
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania.bsky.social and #ThrashUnreal.
"They don't know nothing about redemption."
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GARNETT BLAIR PUTS PHILLIES BACK ON TRACK
The Philadelphia ace made an Artie Wilson run in the first stand up for a win. A memorable duel with the Red Sox's Joe Dobson. Blair improves to 13-3; Phillies' lead over Brooklyn up to 1.5 games.
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PHI 100000000 160
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#1947League: way more fun than the apocalypse.
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From the movement of the ball and the confusion apparent in both batter and catcher, I'm going to assume that's a knuckleball and give Nolan the correct answer here. Plus I know he knows how to throw one :-) What will it be tomorrow, @tabletopmania.bsky.social ?
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Today's #1947League hero, Lino Donoso, played both summer and winter ball, pitching 418 innings in one twelve-month stretch. That exceeds the total of the White Sox hurler, Wilbur Wood, who holds the official record for most innings pitched in an MLB season (376.2) What pitch did both mean rely on?
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @apbamlb1987.bsky.social and The Guess Who. Don't you dare call it retro. If it's authentic rock and roll, it's a present-tense experience.
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BATTERED RED SOX ROAR BACK TO TOP PHILS
Minus Williams, Pesky, and Tebbetts, Boston stormed back from a 6-2 deficit to take the W in Philadelphia. Lino Donoso shut down the Phillies in the bottom of the 9th.
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PHI 030002100 670
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#1947League: way more fun than the apocalypse.
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apparently so!
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That is an extraordinary piece of synchronicity, you selecting that song. I was fixated on it this very afternoon.
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Let's go with the underrated The Guess Who and the criminally underrated Burton Cummings - No Sugar Tonight.
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CORRECT! What would you like to hear, sir?
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Branch Rickey had a meeting with Dodger owner Walter O'Malley about Silvio Garcia on March 15, 1943 -- a meeting so sensitive that O'Malley ordered that the two not be disturbed for any reason. What was Rickey so eager to discuss with his boss confidentially?
#1947League #baseball #trivia #easy
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania.bsky.social and #Shinedown
#nowplaying #Music
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GARCIA GANGS UP ON SENATORS
Tough day at the Coyle for Senators fans. Silvio Garcia homered twice, doubled twice, stole a base, scored four runs, and knocked in three as the Braves dominated Washington in extra innings.
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WAS (23-70) 0030010000 4 7 1
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#1947League: more fun than the apocalypse.
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Truth
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DONE!
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It was an epiphany for yours truly. Got lost in the grunge rock shuffle, apparently. I only discovered it this year. Brian Wilson figures prominently as a mentor for those guys.
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CORRECT! What would you like to hear tomorrow, sir?
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YAY! A fellow Spilt Milk devotee! Astonishing album, yes?
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#1947league question: Henry Aaron (HOF) and "Peanuts" Davis played for the same famous NAL team ... though not at the same time. Name that team!
#baseball #mlb #trivia #tabletopgames #BlackHistory #CivilRights
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by #Jellyfish, the best band you've (probably) never heard of....
"Dialogue swam from his pen like pollywogs..."
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SPAHN PICKS UP NINTH WIN
Warren Spahn got off to a slow start in #1947League, but he had no problem dispatching the Senators today, improving to 9-7 and fanning 8. Lanfranconi got the save. "Peanuts" Davis took the loss for Washington.
BOSB (48-41) 010000012 4 9 2
WAS (23-69) 001000001 2 9 1
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The other day, your Commissioner asked you to name the NAL team for which Jim "Lefty@ LaMarque was the ace in 1947. That would be the Kansas City Monarchs. No one got it, so I'll take the song pick today. #1947League #BlackHistory #Baseball #MLB #civilrights
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#1947League: more fun than the apocalypse.
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I was referring to the Apocalypse.
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the captions are messed up, ignore those....
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Curious how old I am making myself sound here. I realize there are many people in whose personal cinematic Hall of Fame THE FRENCH CONNECTION is not accorded a plaque. But it's definitely in mine. (Both films are also on Dailymotion if you don't have Disney+)
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Just a superb action flick, and another impressive performance from Gene Hackman. A great excuse to rewatch the original, which I am planning to do tonight.