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October 14 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-14

We went to a couple of games 20 plus years ago when the stadium first opened. Loved it when the roof was open, but it did not feel claustrophobic with it closed. My son was in school at the time, we had a good time.

Nothing like working for a company for 10 years only to have them misspell my last name on the 10 year recognition plaque. I left the company a few months later for a different reason. When a VP asked why I left when I asked for a non compete waver I almost told them that because after 10 years you couldn't get my name right.

October 13 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-13 Happy Birthday Paul Simon

I just got an email about Banana Ball in Richmond next Spring. Same deal, join a lottery for tickets. I didn’t check prices, but assume it would be in the same range.

I gave Skubal a 6 year $25 million plus contract beginning in 2026 in OOTP GO He started out mediocre then hurt his arm and is out 14 months. A-I GMs were not offering much in the 2025 post season (Tigers won the Series) Currently at the trade deadline we’re floundering around .500. Our prospects are mediocre as well

He could try resigning, giving away all his possessions and confessing his sins….

Been doing a bit of traveling lately and discovering that lots of folks have the same "Me First" attitude with baggage carts as they do shopping carts. Maybe if the hotels were to apply an "Aldi like" fee to carts like at their stores. A $10 fee for carts that gets waived on returned. And not just to the upper floor elevator but to the cart corral

New York Jets where coaches go to die. The Belichick curse continues

October 12 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-12

Revelen los archivos de Epstein.

Revelen los archivos de Epstein.

In the long run I’m hoping for a Pilots/Mariners series

I’m not sure they would have signed Prince if Victor was healthy. But then Mr I loved shiny objects

October 11 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-11

It's amazing that he ruined his arm tossing underhand, very slowly

I had a high draft number. I did not try to avoid the draft like our Chief Executive did. BTW, I lost a cousin there, just a few months after being inducted. He drove fuel trucks thru the mountains. He lived in Chesterton IN The story I heard several years after his passing was he was filling in for someone who showed up drunk and filled in the day of the “accident”

October 10 https://www.history.com On October 10, 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundarybetween the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired Mason and Dixon, English surveyors, to settle their dispute over the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland. 1845 The United States Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland, with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. Known as the Naval School until 1850, the curriculum included mathematics and navigation, gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural philosophy, and French. The Naval School officially became the U.S. Naval Academy in 1850, and a new curriculum went into effect, requiring midshipmen to study at the academy for four years and to train aboard ships each summer—the basic format that remains at the academy to this day. 1973 Less than a year before Richard M. Nixon’s resignation as president of the United States, his Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigns in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption. He was subsequently fined $10,000, sentenced to three years probation and disbarred by the Maryland court of appeals.

I’ve been following the discussions about one on the other end of the state from us. Botetourt County,Va. Still a fairly rural area but experiencing growth from next door Roanoke. Some interesting dynamics, still a lot of folks want to see the county remain rural like the 60s and 70s opposing anything that encroaches on older farms and orchards. I think the site in question is located fairly close to Roanoke City’s reservoir which takes water from a nearby river and a major creek. The Valley needs something to offset the loss of any major industry. Especially since Norfolk Western left over 50 years ago

I'm sure this is going to work out just fine

So Trump is bailing out Argentina who in turn is selling soybeans to China who involved in a trade war over Tariffs. Meanwhile U-S soybean farmers get screwed again, because of those tariffs.