The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

FMJRA 2.0: Run Through The Jungle

— compiled by Wombat-socho This weekend I learned that this song wasn’t about Vietnam; nonetheless, after seventy years, that’s what most people associate it with. Also hard to believe that after all these years I didn’t have any CCR in the music collection, but there it is. Wow, what a terrible week to be a […]

FMJRA 2.0: Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade

— compiled by Wombat-socho At this time last week, I was in the Las Vegas VA hospital with IV drips of Rocephin and Vancomycin going into my veins in a successful effort to exterminate the vile bacteria that were trying to kill me. I’m home now, feeling better, and have another four days of Levaquin […]

FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

— compiled by Wombat-socho This was a bad week for the Senators. It started well enough, as we took two out of three from the Angels in Anaheim, but then we went to Shea and got swept by the Day Traders, and came home to drop two out of three to the Hated Yankees. Our […]

FMJRA 2.0: SUUUURGE!

— compiled by Wombat-socho Official soda of the 1971 Washington Senators. Our manager, of course, prefers Moxie. A fine homestand this week: first we got a split against the always-troublesome Royals, then swept the Braves in three games, which puts us just one game behind the A’s and two games up on the Twins. Our […]

FMJRA 2.0: National Radio Waves – On The Wire

— compiled by Wombat-socho Another .500 week for the Senators; we took two out of three in Montreal, including a rare win for Jim Kaat, but were not so fortunate at the Mistake by the Lake, where we lost two out of three to the Tribe. The sole win in Cleveland was the seventh for […]

FMJRA 2.0: We Saw It, It Was Coming

— compiled by Wombat-socho Senators took two of three from the division-leading A’s at RFK and ten went on the road to Minnesota and got thumped in two games straight before Juan Marichal came in to shut down the Twins’ bats while the lads teed off on Sudden Sam McDowell for an 8-0 blowout in […]

FMJRA 2.0: Ludwig Revisited – Cozy Ludwig

— compiled by Wombat-socho So after getting whupped in Philadelphia, the Senators boarded the train to Baltimore hoping to regain their road warrior mojo, but it was not to be: while Joe Coleman won the opener to balance his record at 2-2, Pat Dobson got outdueled by Andy Messersmith and Jim Kaat got pounded in […]

FMJRA 2.0: No Joy In Philly

— compiled by Wombat-socho Fresh off a sweep of the Red Sox in Fenway on Tuesday, the Senators went to Shibe Park expecting to rock the 10-11 Phillies, but it was not to be. We lost two of the three games (game #2, where we started Jim Kaat much to our regret, wasn’t even close) […]

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