If you've read Ball Four (and I've read it about 50 times) you think you know all you need to know about the one year existence of the Seattle Pilots. But maybe not. Author Rick Allen has a new book about the hapless Pilots and not only tells the tale of the players and coaches but also the hapless front office. This is the birthing story of the franchise that would become the Milwaukee Brewers.
Here is a description of the book….
“The year 1969 ushered a new Major League Baseball team into Seattle: the Pilots. After many earlier years of successful minor league ball, the city had high hopes for a similar outcome. With plans for a new ballpark and a temperamental but hot-hitting young player named Lou Piniella in the spring training dugout, Seattle was finally getting their shot in the bigs. But the team lasted only one year before going broke and abruptly moving to Milwaukee to become the Brewers. How did that happen?
Jim Bouton’s popular 1970 book, Ball Four, immortalized the Pilots’ colorful cast of clubhouse characters. Inside Pitch goes beyond the gloves and cleats to tell the story of management misfits and administrative mistakes as the team was played into bankruptcy.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the team’s 1970 bankruptcy and move to Milwaukee, Inside Pitch takes baseball fans on a behind-the-scenes look into the brief and quirky history of the Seattle Pilots from the unique perspective of two young team administrators. They share their recollections of the team’s seemingly inevitable collapse and the Herculean efforts to save it by many in the organization. These same young men—who moved to Milwaukee with the team—also reveal some of the administrative hiccups and hilarities during the early days with the Brewers and their new owner, Bud Selig.”
The Pilots became the Brewers in late March of 1970 and just a few days later began their run at County Stadium. A new book looks back at the team from the early days til now.
Brewers beat writer Adam McCalvy has collected the best stories and photos from 50 years of Milwaukee Brewers baseball in a new book called “The Milwaukee Brewers at 50” As the ad boys say “a must for every Brewers fan”.
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“Nice to be reminded that “Presidential Address” doesn't mean “recite a string of compliments about yourself.”
#GraduateTogether
“-John Fugelsang
“Watching President Obama’s graduation address tonight I think I finally understand Obamagate. It’s the scandal of having a president being able to speak with empathy, humor, insight, inspiration and in complete and coherent sentences.”-Dan Rather
We lost Fred Willard…the master of getting the awkward laugh. It's really hard to make awkwardness look real. And he did it every time.
A Broadway show that became a blockbuster Hollywood musical is going to replace this year's Tony Awards show on CBS. The Eye Network announced this week that it will air a sing-along version of “Grease” on Sunday, June 7th. The broadcast will superimpose follow-along lyrics to the 1978 film's songs including “Summer Nights,” “You're the One That I Want” and “Hopelessly Devoted to You.” The “Grease” sing-along will air as part of CBS's “Sunday Night Movies” series. The awards show that honors the best of Broadway is being postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Covers Of The Day (Happy Birthday to Mark Mothersbaugh who turns 70 today. He has written a bunch of music for movies and tv shows but you may remember him as a founding member of Devo.)
Trump has fired the 4th Inspector General in the last few weeks. I don't think he understands the role of an IG…or maybe he does……and knows it's bad for him and his minions. Read it
here
“I am a former auditor. Internal auditors work for the company but typically report to an audit committee that should not be comprised of management but stakeholders to hold management accountable. Any talk that auditors that impedes their independence is from a corrupt management”-Doug Marcus
“Senator Grassley has built his reputation on protecting the integrity of the Inspector general process. He runs a committee that could do something about it. But he is strangely silent about these purges. I hope when I get to 86 I'm not afraid of anyone or anything like Trump”-Joe Lockhart
“This is because the Republican Senators like Grassley are fine with the destruction of the IG program. He paints himself as a defender of IGs, but he's a corrupt partisan who spends his time running the investigation Trump tried to extort Ukraine to do instead of defending IGs. “-Walter Schaub
“It seems the way to get fired by President Trump is not to commit wrongdoing, but to investigate it. “-Joe Biden
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/126161993241399…
“If Inspector General Linick was fired because he was conducting an investigation of conduct by Secretary Pompeo, the Senate cannot let this stand. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee must get to bottom of what happened here.”Sen. Chris Murphy
A coal lobbyist runs the EPA
A pharma exec runs HHS
An oil lobbyist runs the DOI
A Raytheon lobbyist runs DOD
A Verizon lawyer runs FCC
A Goldman Sachs exec runs Treasury
A private equity kingpin runs Commerce
And you wonder why stimulus funds become corporate handouts.
Quotes Of The Day
“Trumpists believe the entire Federal workforce serves the WH. It's the essence of corruption.”-Jon Corbly
“In a time of terrible suffering, one man who is currently president tweets an image of his face superimposed over a character pretending to be a president fighting space aliens, another who was president inspires a nation with words of encouragement for our youth.”-Walter Schaub
“This thread gets at something that people don't always get: conservative media is largely about making you mad. Maybe scared too, but mostly it cultivates anger with lies. Actual honest media fights for you whether you like and trust us or not, and never more than in the pandemic”-Bruce Arthur
https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/12617048…
Never Forget this. Ask Ron Johnson at every chance…why?
“No matter what Eric Trump does, and I’m sure he’ll have many gaffes, always remember that he stole charity money from kids with cancer.”-Dr. Eugene Gu
“Trump’s campaign strategy is accusing Biden of doing things that Trump actually did.”Judd Legum
“President Trump does so much projecting, he might as well open up a movie theater.”-Dan Rather
“We can have leaders like Barack Obama again. We don’t have to go through another four years of this. But we’re gonna have to work really, really hard to make it happen.”-Jon Favreau
“@SenRonJohnson, you have given up even the pretense of belief in government accountability. An IG doing their job doesn't count as just cause for firing them. Just another betrayal of everything you claimed to support.:-Jared Van Dyke
“The virtues of 20th century journalism have become outright pathologies in a 21st century media environment. Thus the zone is perpetually flooded with shit. Some thoughts:”-Sean Illing
https://vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/16/212…
“Years from now, when Trump & McConnell have left this earth and are just a stain in our history books, we’ll have accomplished everything they sought to prevent: universal healthcare, sound environmental policy, livable wages. They are the last, sputtering gasp of the dinosaurs.”-Beau Willimon
“You don’t know who you’ll be unmasking when you make the request, which is based on the substance of the intercept and who the foreign party is. So if Trump family members were unmasked, it’s because they were having questionable conversations with problematic foreign nationals.”-Bill Kristol
https://twitter.com/MattMackowiak/status/126172204…
Flynn conspired to kidnap a Turkish citizen on us soil and send him back to Turkey for punishment. A vote for Joe Biden is a vote against fascism
BREAKING: ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams: “Based on what we know today, this Obamagate theory is 100 percent bullshit.”
“So @BarackObama advised @realDonaldTrump not to hire Flynn as nat sec adviser.
Trump ignored the advice.
Flynn proceeded to lie to the @FBI and @VP about his call with the Russian ambassador, for which Trump fired him and Flynn pleaded guilty.
And this is Obama’s fault?!?”-David Axelrod
“trump actually said “if you don’t test you will have less cases”. It is unfathomable that anyone this stupid is in charge. I bet he thinks if he puts his hand over his eyes, it is night time”-American Veteran
“In any other time, a national security adviser who acted this way would be considered a traitor.
But not in Bill Barr’s America.” @Thom_Hartmannhttps://citizentruth.org/can-democracy-survive-bill-barr/…
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