I chuckled when I heard that some folks were saying that the slump of Christian Yelich was something more sinister. That Yelich, who had been ripping the cover off the ball for two years, knew what pitches were coming and now he doesn’t. Ummm….no. It looks like he may be coming out of the slump after this weekend. A homer, triple and bases loaded walk on Sunday. Even during his slump he was still getting his walks. That means his hitters eye is still sharp and he will start punishing balls again.
Ryan Braun is eligible to come off the DL this week and would give Yelich more protection in the lineup as well.
Brewers-Twins starting tonight.
The Brewers being proactive. Let the griping begin….
It appears the Big Ten and other Power Five football conferences are ready to cancel the 2020 football season. Let more griping commence…It appears that they are considering moving football to the spring. Wouldn’t high schools then follow?
Black Sabbath is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its genre-defining sophomore album, Paranoid, with a super-deluxe vinyl reissue that includes the original LP and a number of historic heavy metal collectibles. The five-LP Paranoid: Super Deluxe Edition includes the original album and a rare 1974 Quadrophonic mix which has been folded down to stereo. The set also includes Black Sabbath concerts from 1970 in Montreux and in Brussels that have been pressed on vinyl for the first time. There’s also a hardbound book with extensive liner notes, including interviews with the four band members, rare photos and memorabilia. The set’s official release date is October 9th.
The wrestling world is mourning the passing of James Harris, best known for playing Kamala in the WWE. He was 70. The 6-foot-7, 380-pound Harris famously feuded with The Undertaker and Hulk Hogan while in the WWE until his retirement in 2006. “The Ugandan Giant” was known for his frightening face paint and elite athleticism around the ring. Former WWE broadcaster Jim Ross tweeted “a character you created and a nice, nice man, rest in peace.”
Here is Mose Allison, who wrote the song, doing Parchmans Farm
Our first cover of the day is boogie band Cactus re-doing the song in about the most extreme way you could re-do it. From 1970.
Hard rock boogie band Cactus does a Mose Allison tune
Our other cover today is flautist Herbie Mann teaming up with the Muscle Shoals boys for a great Beatles redo.
Herbie Mann and the Muscle Shoals boys cover the Beatles
The corruption of Ron Johnson laid out…read it here
MAGA men are weak…once again John Pavlovitz nails it. Read it here
Quotes Of The Day
“We have the money to make health care a right in this country. What we need is the political will.”-Robert Reich
“Trump, a Republican has done this day what republicans have attempted to do for years. he signed an executive order to suspend payroll taxes in effect putting social security… Medicare… Obama care and other social programs in jeopardy by shutting off funding of these programs. this should wake the nation up to the fact that republicans are socialists for the rich and corporate and those in the bottom 3/4 of the nation mean nothing to the republicans. Remember this is November!”-Mary Ellen Wonders
“A senior administration official involved in the pandemic response said, ‘You’re not supposed to see this behavior in liberal democracies founded on principles of rule of law. Everyone bends over backwards to create this Potemkin village for him’.”-Washington Post
“The direction Trump and the GOP are taking America is best described as Orban-style fascism.”-Thom Hartman
“If you actually needed more proof that the Republican Party was a non-serious party with no interest in governing, Trump signing meaningless executive orders he doesn’t understand at a golf club he’s using to scam more taxpayer dollars is pretty much the perfect trifecta.”-Stuart Stevens
“God save us from rich assholes who want to make themselves richer at the expense of the nation. And this is just the tip of the iceberg – look who’s running Education, EPA, Interior, FCC, Defense, DOJ, Treasury, etc…and sitting in the White House.”-Thom Hartman
Mapping the corruption of the Trump Administration. Read it here
“Russia and China want to influence the US election, but their efforts are not the same. Much of what China is doing is akin to lobbying and hard-edged geopolitics. Russia is (once again) engaged in intelligence operations and disinformation.”-Shane Harris
washingtonpost.com/national-secur
“You can’t have both. So which one is it? Senile, drooling incompetent or so powerful a threat he can hurt God and make weapons disappear by just thinking it.”-David Plouffe on Trump’s comments about Biden
“Joe Biden is a devout catholic and regularly attends Sunday service. The last time Trump went to church, he gassed peaceful Americans.”The Lincoln Project
“There’s been too much speculation about whether Trump himself is mentally ill or demented, and not enough about what toxic rants like this are doing to the mental health of this country. Trump is like an overflowing sewer pipe belching poison into American public life every day.”-Steve Silberman
Think about this when you’re voting.
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