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FMJRA 2.0: Take Me Out To The (Virtual) Ballgame

Posted on | September 19, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Take Me Out To The (Virtual) Ballgame

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Aside from the usual weekend sloth, this post is late because Da Tech Guy offered me the opportunity to experience once more the game that got me back into being interested in baseball after a twenty-year-long hiatus: like my father, who gave up on baseball after the Braves left Boston for Milwaukee in 1952, I lost interest in baseball after the Senators left Washington for Texas in 1972.* In 1989, one of my fellow soldiers in the Army Reserves invited me to join a Pursue the Pennant league, and after I signed up, the next thing I knew I was borrowing Bill James books from the library, buying new ones from the local bookstores, poring over a used copy of Total Baseball, and taking a part-time job scoring Twins games on the radio. I eventually dropped out of that league, and over the last few years baseball has been losing its charm thanks to its painfully woke commissioner, but I couldn’t resist the chance to take charge of my favorite Senators team ever, the 1969 squad that went 86-76 to finish fourth in the AL East, just one game behind the Red Sox. It’s been almost fifty years now, but I can still hear Shelby Whitfield exclaiming joyfully “Kiss it goodbye!” as Frank Howard blasted another massive home run into the upper deck at RFK. Anyway, I spent most of yesterday poring over Dynasty Baseball cards for 1969 baseball players in preparation for the coming weekend’s draft. 
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My field of dreams – RFK Stadium in Washington DC

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EBL
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357 Magnum
Bacon Time
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EBL

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FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short
A View From The Beach
EBL

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357 Magnum

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A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.14.21 (Evening Edition) 
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.15.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
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Journalism 2021: CNN Fact-Checks Rapper’s Claim About Testicles
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.16.21
A View From The Beach
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Proof Positive

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The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

*So much so that when my wife asked me if I wanted to watch the 1987 World Series with her, I dismissively replied “What for? It’s baseball.” She was greatly amused a few years later when my obsession with the National Pastime rose from the dead.

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