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He wants to stay closer to home. Flights out of LAX can be excruciating. Not to mention jet lag every 5 days

Maybe he just really likes Coney Dogs

Who else is on his list?

It's been about 6 years since we were there. They may have sold the place.

That may be it. Interesting place. The locals had their personal mugs there. I think they had a bunch of books that you could read while enjoying your beverage and pastries. The fellow who ran it, actually his wife did it, was associated with the Michigan State Extension Service. He spent a bit of time commuting between East Lansing and the UP

A bit of video on Mr Lee https://www.milb.com/video/hao-yu-lee-s-solo-home-run-x9547?t=playerid-701678 https://www.milb.com/video/hao-yu-lee-s-two-run-home-run-x4949?t=playerid-701678

Outside of my local NPR station I haven't listened to anything relatively new since the mid 80s. Stuck too long in the corporate Beautiful Music, Lite Rock before the (It was my job) I'm basically one of those Boomers who think good music ended with Rap and auto tune. Now that I no longer spend time in the automobile I've been exploring more.

Went down the Tyler Childers YouTube rabbit hole and found Rhiannon Giddens. Where have I been the past 15 years or so?

Trying to remember, a few years ago there was a coffee shop/library near near the tour boat parking. Is it still there?

Now that DeSantis seems to be DOA there is a part of me that wishes the other pretenders just step aside and allow either Christie or Hurd to go head to head against Trump. True, it's a suicide mission, neither has a chance, much like all the Trump lite characters in the race. The NeverTrumper wing of the party needs someone with the gonads to take him on one on one. And go after his shins.

The Mudcats and my other favorite NC minor league name Hickory Crawdads. My son had one of their caps, named his APBA windows team after them

Baltimore is only about three hours from Richmond. Good airports to get to NY, LA and such. The seafood isn't bad either.

I haven't been to Harbor Park yet, it's been a busy summer and I haven't wanted to brave tourist traffic and the tunnel. 😉 The park is over 20 years old and a vast improvement still (from what I've seen from the outside) over the old place near the airport (There's an IKEA there now. This Spring we stayed at the Aloft hotel next to the park in Durham before my 6 month checkup at Duke. Will be back in September right after the season ends. Our visits to relatives in the area just haven't coincided with home stands. I was the Salem park several years ago, it's was nice then, I hope it held up. Spent many a summers evening in the early 70s at the old park that doubled as a high school football field. By the way, if you're looking for interesting ballparks, check out Deltaville, Va. One of the last wooden parks left. There's a small "town league" in the region and they play some games there. We drove by it a couple of weeks ago, but it was about 4 hours before game time. Not much to do there to kill time with smallish dog in tow. (The park does allow dogs) https://deltavilleballpark.com

After what Youngkin did in Virginia in '21, I'm not taking anything for granted. Trumpkin isn't DJT and maybe closer to DeSantis in philosophy, but he was still a wolf in sheepskin vest. His opponent was not inspiring either and a bunch of otherwise intelligent people got fooled. The key factor in 2024 just may be how many people say f-.... it and stay home,

Was trying to remember when Salem, Va entered the Carolina League. I guess it was 1968 or so. The Pirates had their Appalachian League team there prior to that.

I got to thinking a bit about the "Small Town" thought. We lived in the Chicago area for 10 years, worked Downtown, 20 years in Metro Detroit. There is a substantial portion of the population in both areas that give the "you weren't raised here, you're not part of us vibe"....very much a small town attitude. Currently where we live could possibly be considered small town. But between the military population and the number of retirees moving it's a different vibe. Unless you talk to long time locals.

This NYT Newsletter addresses it a bit. The assumption that a small majority of the NOTA's would lean toward Biden. I have a feeling we're looking at something similar to 2016 where a majority really didn't want either candidate. Biden's age (nobody seems concerned about Trump's age and BMI) as well as choice for VP could play into the calculation as well. i'm not sure if this link will work, but here goes https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?abVariantId=0&campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230801&instance_id=98934&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN&regi_id=73869733&segment_id=140795&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F39711863-c9ad-58b2-8f6c-6f90e89b2424&user_id=ab209330359f3e3101d0a3b6a50d1777

When you can’t beat out Jesse Gonder it’s time to move on. He got a ring out of it (and a good retirement job with Mr I)

Baseball Reference has him with the Tigers in 1967. Purchased from the Pirates that spring. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/priceji01.shtml

I've been tempted to ask for a separate receipt for my 37 cent donation for tax purposes.