Kirk Gallaway

So you mean Tucker hasn't been with us all along???? You're learning this for the first time Ben? So Groubert is finally validating this for you after we were telling you this when half the forum went lunging after Tucker's low hanging fruit assertion that his source saw the files and right out on the front page there was a "smoking gun" and it's been "fake" ever since? So is Groubert filling the Glenn Greenwald void since you finally realized he wasn't a super hawk such as yourself? I have heard some 50's right wing rhetoric from him branding a U.S. black politician as a "communist." But my guess is he probably cleverly skirts being the war multi tasker you are! So beware! heh heh

Yes I've seen interview where Anthony praised it as the best. It is truly great, particularly up to Gus's fate. I thought the Soprano's was one of a kind. I first saw Jerry Seinfeld live in 1979. He was funny in a quirky way. ehhhh There was nothing about his act that was the least controversial. That's why it's so weird to see him now carry on about "wokeness" now. Seinfeld's success is understandable though I do think "Curb your Enthusiasm was much better . Though it peaked a couple of years before it's end. But concurrent with the Seinfeld in Comedy and yet more incisive, sort of like "Seinfeld for adults" and miles better for me at least was the Larry Sanders Show. Probably the greatest TV commentary on show business was his final show, where he got everybody to help him. I tried to find that on Youtube as well as O.J. trial. episode. But finding specific searches on youtube can be elusive. Though you can watch whole seasons. I did copy this.I think you guys will love it for it's reference to Oliver Stone. heh heh

I agree with you completely Cory. Mods where are you??!! What's completely unfair is that old trick of using direct quotes of Trump answering the issues of the day! This can't be tolerated!

Of course at first Cepeda played a lot of left field. I think both Cepeda and of course Mac Covey had some problems with their knees. You know I think the first time they moved Davenport to shortstop was to try Cepeda at third. Because we couldn't watch every game and sometimes couldn't listen on the radio, I'd check box scores. I'm sure there were errors, but I don't remember any, but it could be he just didn't have much range. You're right it was probably inevitable. I just didn't think Sadecki was good enough to trade Cepeda for. Yeah, George Foster! We were just brimming with power but at least he didn't really make it for another 4 years with the Reds after we traded him. Mays would have had at least 100 more Hr's if it weren't for Candlestick.It would have been at least neck and neck with Aaron. Atlanta was a power hitter ballpark. Joe, Hal Lanier was ok, he was a good hitter, but you remember Johnny Lemaster? He was an excellent fielder, but everyone gave him a hard time about his hitting. I went to the game where I saw "Boo" stitched on his uniform where his name was in back. He had it done himself. Though my friends and I would call him Johnny Disaster, I never booed my team. I felt very bad seeing it They asked him about it and he said it didn't matter, but of course it did! I was fortunate enough to have older brothers and the first 2 pro games I saw were at Seal Stadium. And Willie Mays hit a HR in the first game I saw! I was 2-0 at Seal Stadium and then we lost my first game at Candlestick 14-6 to the Pirates. I saw Willie Mays in person in about 30 games in the 60's . We knew where to wait in the player parking lot after the game and I got Mays, Marichal and Mc Covey's autograph but lost it after I left home when my Mother did a housecleaning. I still have the JFK Assasination Life Magazine and the Time Magazine 9 frame front illustration of Juan Marichal's windup. I saw a lot of Marichal victories but I also saw him lose to Bob Gibson. In an interview 10 years ago. I found out Barry Bonds went to my kindergarten through 6 grade school in San Carlos! I knew 2 of Jim Davenport's sons, one named Randy played guitar. Seal Stadium Collision and catch with Bobby Bonds!

Matt, excellent state (Michigan)for that to happen to the GOP! Good news! Koch's well connected high school hero, who he fiercely campaigned for "Most likely to Succeed" in his High School Senior poll and both attended Jordan Peterson''s Incel Boy's Camp up in Ontario that summer! https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1803856156793692310/photo/1 heh heh In other news, Fox poll giving Biden a 50-48 edge! Trump twitter response.

Yeah, good actor. Managed to stay working! Of course, he was never a dashing leading man. In the 60's, he started out playing nerdy roles and eventually made it mainstream with "Mash." Then he was with Jane Fonda in "KluteI" I thought maybe they had a romance because he said Jane "taught him a lot of things", or something of that nature I recall reading in a Playboy interview back in the 70's. I always liked him in the remake of the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". and I think he was underrated in his performance in "Ordinary people."

Very cool, Dave! JFK throws out the ball at 8:00. That was the year of 2 All Star games and I never understood why, but as a kid, I loved it, and was hoping it would become permanent! Dave I think I recall you're not a Chicago or Cleveland fan buts it's the Reds or the Cardinals and I think it's the Reds? I included Johny Bench and Frank Robinson. It was interesting back in the 60's the National League always got short changed when they traded stars with the American League. I remember we got burned trading Gaylord Perry and Frank Duffy to the Indians for Sam Mac Dowell. who came to the NL and was never the same, against NL hitting. But I think the real clincher was the Reds trading Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas. I welcomed that as I knew it was a disaster for the Reds! Probably the worst trade the Giants made in the 60's was trading Orlando Cepeda for Ray Sadecki. Cepeda becomes MVP and leads the Cadinals to a title. I think we did it because Sadecki always pitched well against us , but never pitched well against our chief rivals, the Dodgers, and he was just a general washout when he got to SF. I do think there's a natural feeling you get about some players where you can say that guy isn't a Giant!, or a Dodger! , or a Red! Also I noticed with the Giants, we never did well with say players from New England or blondes I noticed. heh heh Here is the box score from the 1967 All Star Game. I think I count 15 NL Hall of Famers and 9 AL Hall of Famers making a total of 25! NL All-Stars 1 Lou Brock LF 2 Roberto Clemente RF 3 Henry Aaron CF 4 Orlando Cepeda 1B 5 Dick Allen 3B 6 Joe Torre C 7 Bill Mazeroski 2B 8 Gene Alley SS 9 Juan Marichal P Manager Walter Alston Reserves Tom Haller C Tim McCarver C Ernie Banks 1B Tommy Helms 2B Tony Pérez 3B Pete Rose LF Willie Mays CF Jim Wynn CF Rusty Staub RF Mike Cuellar P Don Drysdale P Bob Gibson P Fergie Jenkins P Denny Lemaster P Claude Osteen P Tom Seaver P Chris Short P AL All-Stars 1 Brooks Robinson 3B 2 Rod Carew 2B 3 Tony Oliva CF 4 Harmon Killebrew 1B 5 Tony Conigliaro RF 6 Carl Yastrzemski LF 7 Bill Freehan C 8 Rico Petrocelli SS 9 Dean Chance P Manager Hank Bauer Reserves Paul Casanova C Andy Etchebarren C Mickey Mantle 1B Don Mincher 1B Dick McAuliffe 2B Max Alvis 3B Jim Fregosi SS Tommie Agee CF Ken Berry RF Al Kaline RF Frank Robinson RF Al Downing P Steve Hargan P Joe Horlen P Catfish Hunter P Jim Lonborg P Jim McGlothlin P Gary Peters P

Joe, I was expecting a thoroughly human and entertaining account of your experience with baseball and you didn't let me down! I'm going to talk a little inside Bay Area for just for a second. You were in the booth with Hank Greenwald? Greenwald was very funny and entertaining! It seemed they were always looking for someone to go with him. Ho-ly cow! David Glass? ehh .....though adequate. Do you remember Phil Stone? He was bad! I never liked Joe Angel's style but apparently he' was around for a long time. with the Orioles. I think we have about as good a combination of 4 announcers in TV and Radio as anywhere. But Krukow and Kuiper are getting old. Mike Krukow has a rare debilitating illness that I understand could only get worse.

Nick, How about that picture of Tommy Lasorda? Scully was, I found it. Born in the Bronx and raised in Manhattan, Scully discovered his love of baseball at age eight when, watching the 1936 World Series, he sympathized with the New York Giants as they lost 18-4 to the Yankees. From then on, he was a devoted Giants fan. We got the reciprocal . We only watched 9 games a year during the regular season, and those were the away games at Dodger stadium. I remember Drysdale had an all time streak of 56? innings of shutout ball over 6 starts and it was late in a tight game, and the Giants had the bases loaded threatening to end the streak, and Drysdale was a brushback pitcher. He ended up hitting Dick Dietz , the Giant catcher, and that would have forced in a run the tying run and stopped the streak but the umpire interceded and claimed Dietz deliberately let the ball hit him! Do you remember that? Anyway The streak was preserved and the Dodgers won the game. I had a radio show and in the 90's and interviewed Dick Dietz , who was then the minor league coach in a Giant farm club in San Jose. I asked him about it. Obviously he thought we got a raw deal. Personally I had never seen that ruling before, and to me, it didn't look any more intentional then any number of pitches that hit the wrist of batters. Oh well, water way under the bridge!

On Oct, 16 1962, The SF Giants lost game 7 of the World Series to The New York Yankees. That evening JFK went on TV telling the public of surveillance spotting missiles in Cuba, the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A little known fact, Willie Mays played winter ball in Cuba. He played on the same team with the person in the photo below. And that person is Tommy Lasorda ,the eventual manager of the Dodgers, who died in 2021. https://cubacenter.org/news/2021/01/08/remembering-tommy-lasorda-a-great-friend-of-cuba/

Yeah Nick, that was/ is quite a rivalry! Didn't Vin Scully grow up a Giant fan in New York? You remember this song from Danny Kaye? It was a bit our parents crowd's style for us in the early years of R&R! But we up north do remember the Hiller Miller Halleruhjah Twist.

A little break from conspiracies.Maybe? Maybe the first black athlete to be truly accepted by America? I tried to add some other great players from other teams from the greatest era of baseball..And some other people. With the links, just "open link in new tab." All my history of baseball starts with Willie Mays. At 19 years old in Minneapolis Di Maggio Bros. Mays, Mantle https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/four-of-baseballs-great-centerfielders-are-shown-here-as-news-photo/515492276 Mays playing stick ball with kids NYC early 50's Mays Clemente , Aaron (great photo) 1962 3M Mays Mantle, Maris https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/slugging-outfielders-before-an-exhibition-game-at-yankee-news-photo/154786843 Cecil Williams Willie Mays Bill Graham Joe Alioto Jerry Garcia Carlos Santana 1964 Mays Koufax Mays Ali Mays, Marichal Johnny Callison? at mid 60's All Star game?? Mays Frank Robinson Mac Covey https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/san-francisco-giants-legends-willie-mays-frank-robinson-and-news-photo/1298780359 Aaron Bench Koufax Mays SF. Giants 1962 Harvey Kuhn Orlando Cepeda Willie Mays Willie Mac Covey Mays Newsome Mays Tim Lincecum https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/tim-lincecum-of-the-san-francisco-giants-stops-to-meet-with-news-photo/1321957766 Hall of Famers Gaylord Perry Willie Mays Willie Mac Covey Juan Marichal Orland Cepeda RIP

That poor shark is going to be so sick!

Egads!, see what you've unleashed on the Kennedy name from Robert! heh heh Their target audience is lower to middle class British women! That's not going to the move the needle here in the U.S.! The tabloids have been doing this to the Kennedys for 60 years! And they still are the most enduring family name in American politics! Though they might be running out of chances! I've watched people decry this on this forum a thousand times! After decades of it, I've developed a counter opinion. It's not even clear among the people who buy those tabloids that the net effect is that it only adds mystique! And among the people who see the headlines at the checkout counter and would never buy it, I know it adds mystique! W. So, money isn't necessarily their main motive in running these lurid Callahan stories about JFK, Jackie, and RFK. Never underestimate the desire of people who have plenty of money to want, yet more money! It works, so why not?

Yeah I was thinking of asking the same thing as Paul. W.It looks like another mainstream media smear campaign against the Kennedy family-- character assassination, if you will. The Daily Mail? They're a British tabloid. You see them here at supermarkets. They've been recycling these stories for years. No, The real reason is money. Believe me, the Kennedy family is much more concerned about their future with the RK candidacy than any tabloid.

Steve, That is an absolute economic disaster for the common person.! Trump would need a vigorous police state to handle the fallout and he's fine with that. Any Democracy depends on a certain awareness and engagement of the public. If the American public end up voting for that they are absolutely stupid! You know in recent polls, they note that there has been a gain for Trump among younger black male voters and as Steve noted in an earlier article. Among younger voters there has been a split with the males going more conservative and the females going more liberal. The Republicans and Trump aren't going to do anything for the young black males except spout trickle down promises! It goes against their entire creed of dismantling the "Administrative State." Again, what are people thinking?

I think you're right. No one could stop Bobby if he wanted to open an investigation. I really think Bobby was perplexed among several suspect groups, and I'm not sure he made much progress in ferreting it out. Any idea that he'd someday become President and launch an investigation as Talbot claims, at least at that point were very immature. He's had never won an office and was in the shadow of his brothers. He made plans for the New York Senate seat, but I think he realized the power of the martyrdom first at the 64 Democratic convention and realized he could be the heir apparent.

That's like Trump coming into some podunk and getting up in front of a crowd and not remembering where he is, and then he starts insulting the place, and the crowd just wets their pants because they think he's right! heh heh

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This is a good Frontline presentation about how Ivy League Universities Israel-Hamas War peace demonstrations have been assaulted by the right wing and wealthy donor alumni as being "Anti Semitic." I've seen Leon Cooperman many times and marvel at how much air time he is given whenever he feels like making a point on the business channels. And he is a complete douche bag! https://youtu.be/HESNxDn6Efs

Ron, So posting Big Bird and some meme of the Joker is not demeaning and insulting, besides being a lot of childish nonsense we can do without? Over the years there's a considerable amount of information that has been accepted as fact by no real standards of proof but by virtue of nothing more than someone was impressed with somebody's presentation.

Thanks Sandy, I took care of it. Alito's wife is every bit as much of a grizzled loose canon as Ginni Thomas! Whoa, Justice Alito's homophobe , vengeful wife speaks recklessly to a complete stranger journalist at the Historical Society's June 3rd, get together which is a haven for members of the Federalist Society to hob nob with Conservative Supreme Court Justices!