The Yanks are in the process of sweeping and beating the sh!t out of Baltimore today fair and square- beating them twice by one run and currently in the process of blowing Baltimore out in the 3rd game-Yanks have out played them, out pitched them, out scored them and have NOT yet benefited from a single UNEARNED run allowed by Baltimore... and IMHO, any talk of the Yanks getting a "break" here or there is both inconsequential and sounds like something an Orioles' fan would be saying right about...now. "Breaks" are not the reason the Yanks are sweeping the Orioles in this series. Imo. Yanks at this point in the season are both clearly the best balanced team in the A.L East and one of the BEST teams in the league. And of course this is jmho.
Ellsbury excepted the little guys did it today Drew contributing less than Gregorius, JR, or Headley.
Masahiro, looked pretty damned good, up until he gave up back to back jacks to Hardy and Machado........ Mr. Splitty-Slurve, just ran out of gas, but then Machado, has the skills, tools, and desire, with a full tank of gas, a fresh pack of cigarettes, and a 6 pack of beer...ntm: a Platinum Glove........ "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonit, people like me" - Stuart Smalley/Manny Machado...
Post Game Visitors Clubhouse, Buck pulls out his guitar, twangs up an A Chord, breaks into an old Sonny James Tune, "Well my shirt is ragged and my pants are tore, Aint found nothing I'm looking for, And I want to go back, to Baltimore.
...^^^ Amen, ...... Yanks vs Balt. 8 Wins-5 Losses, and we've got 6 more O's games in Sept. Yanks needed this sweep, of an AL East Rival, to have the momentum to head to (and win) vs. - Minnesota, Texas, and Chicago......Don't put the brooms away not yet, the Yanx want nothing more than a sweep of Tejas in Arlington...... Texas has owned the Yanks, and why I don't get it, Yanx 0 Wins, 3 Losses, with a 4 game set in TX; coming up on the road.......! Regardless of the Yanx record vs Tejas, I'm gonna predict a Yankee Sweep in Arlington.......yeehah..... I'm going out on a limb, to predict: a Home Run Fest and Derby vs Phil Hughes in the Twin cities.....you know it.......
The Yankees need to jump in there and bitch slap the shit out of the Twinkies show our old buddy Hughes just what for tomorrow.
I saw Sonny James, in Shreveport's Luzianna Hayride. He got a shit load of air time on the C&W stations. I will never forget the way he often held his guitar up on his shoulder at times. Sweet fine polished voice, not quit Jim Reeves or Ray Price, but he had a helluva following back then....... Michael, I saw Stonewall Jackson open for Charlie Pride in 67, at the Hayride, and I couldn't believe my ears, (keep in mind, the deep south was still somewhat strongly in parts, racists, and slow to move towards civil rights, but that's a story for another day).....anyway, Stonewall was shit faced drunk, when He came out on stage, then as his band began to warm up, to build up to his opening tune, Jackson went into a drunken tirade, over and "Why should I, I, play backup to a black man, why should I open for this Nx%##%", "I'm more famous than this N%@##%@....!!!; and his rant went on long enough, for the Producer to dim the lights until they were out, their way of giving Jackson a hint, He was about to be thrown out on his drunken ass........a short time latter Stonewall, walked off of the stage, while his band members stayed put........the shit must of hit the fan, because Stonewall, came back, and didn't say a word for the entire show........
...^^^ ....^^^ are you still working on having the Trop towed and moved out into the middle of the Gulf....??? Near the Deep Water Horizon......?
Along the lines of Stonewall, I went through Basic Training at Fort Ord California in 1963. Most of the guys in my platoon were from the Western States but we did have one guy from North Carolina, one from Mississippi and our Platoon Drill Sergeant was Black. They were pissed off about having to take orders from a ^&&^&*%^%*N and actually went higher up in the Company Chain of Command asking if they had to do so. They were informed that segregation in the military had ended some 18 years prior and by taking the oath, they had to obey the orders of those appointed over them. Remembered the segregated South when I'd lived in South Carolina, Florida, and Virginia in the mid to late '50's, there were some real issues when guys from the South entered the Armed Forces. I know Pride went through some shit, saw Faron Young constantly give him some static. The first time I heard Prides record "I Know One" and was told he was black I said well he did good on that one but I was still surprised. My favorite Sonny James tune will always be "Young Love" . I'd believe your Stonewall story beyond shadow of doubt but as a Country Singer the man rated high in my book. One would really like the musical lives of those 50's & 60's Country Singers but they had some really fucked up personal lives. But I do believe in one thing still to this day, all of these problems and strife could only happen in the USA and life pretty much seems to work it out. No matter what goes on and in spite of the worst intentions of the current White House Occupant it's still the best place on the planet.
