TCFC: The only unpaved streets in that part of the county/city are in the neighborhood that was segregated by statute. To say the situation in James Lee is common is dishonest. Read more
M,H: These screencaps are the headline and some grafs of a story that appeared in the Washington Post on March 14, 1938, several months before Marshall’s song was first played at a Skins game. There’s zero chance that a worldly guy like Marshall who’d traveled to Germany and lived in the Nation’s Capital could be…
TSPC: She shouldn’t have to come up with a reason for changing her mind. Read more
how deep? 40,000 Leagues and beyond, FC. it’s the only reason i’m here. Read more
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DG: Wanna hear some great Dan Snyder trivia? Snyder’s sales of expired airline peanuts at FedExField commenced during the game against the Vikings on Sept. 11, 2006! Yes, the very same day as the Pentagon flag hats for 9/11! Those peanuts came in bags with the logo of Independence Air, which by then was long defunct.… Read more
Twink: That is an angle of the story that a better writer woulda figured out how to fit into this. Because it wasn’t just Eric Gregg! Frank Pulli also lost his job because of that same labor action, and like Gregg begged to get rehired and MLB refused. By then, Nick Colosi had already retired, so baseball made sure… Read more
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BTBC: I agree. I’m fascinated by Steve Fields’ tale for all sorts of reasons, but none more than because of how fucked he was as soon as he got the offer he’d always wanted. If you were in Fields’ position, would you have acted differently? If you were in the union umps’ position, would you have acted differently? If…
Awesome story told awesomely, MOTM! thanks for sharing. be well...dm Read more
A: what makes you think the goddamn Brit spies weren’t spooking in the service of Mary of Teck, aka Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, aka Queen (Consort) at the time of the crime? Read more
I ran out of hard drive space for new bands years and years ago and that no longer bothers me. I’m old and crusty and when I happen upon somebody current I just compare them unfavorably to folks who’ve already done it long ago, and so I mostly just listen to the same bands I did as a teen or before and they still… Read more
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It’s part of the job, ain’t it? I bet white athletes lift more weights than white musicians. Read more
HS: I’m old and fell for the Ramones early and even saw them a bunch through the years, including a show at the cafeteria of American University in DC, one of the intensest, most crowded and funnest shows I ever saw, where I thought I could die and didn’t care. They totally cracked the code. But, since you’re a fan, I… Read more
Oh my. I’m too easily pleased to be of much help here. You’ve probably already got “Losing My Religion” down, and, no fooling, if you’re like me you can feast on that for years. I got a banjo not long ago, and, like with a mandolin, the sound is just so pleasing to me already that it’s not worth putting in lots of… Read more
I was in the ocean last weekend after a storm tho under a clear blue sky for literally less than 3 minutes and got out because I felt I had almost no control of my destiny. So I’m Team Ocean at least until I go up in a rocket. Read more
I’m more surprised that so far nobody has truthered the Sanders Family’s claim that Col. Sanders, an avowed supporter of George Wallace, whose political heyday was all race-based and on the wrong side of history, never used racial slurs. Read more
SL25: I agree that your “Catholic League” would be unforgiveable...but, I used lower-case “Catholic league,” which I can get away with since it’s a majority Catholic league and it beats typing “Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Division” like I just did. But, yeah, dammit, you’re more right than me. Read more
Hey BTL: So the Baltimore Sun has done several news stories, a sports column, and even an editorial on this particular prep football debacle. I bet you “Not news!”’d the Colts leaving town stories too. Read more
Are you folks really gonna truther a statement that Canton is a “desirable” neighborhood? My god. What’s happened to Baltimore!!!!?!?!!?! Read more