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August 3 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-3

The privilege of age

I'm ambivalent about the Bristol Track game. After all the Dodgers played their first couple of years in the LA Coliseum. Left field fence was 250 feet away (with a 40 foot screen) it was about 300 feet.. BTW the Field of Dreams field was not the same location as the movie field. They moved it about 100 yards or so and turned it around a bit to get the house in the camera shots. Now if they played during a race, that would be something...

August 2

Yep. The way they're doing it now allows Colbert to bash Trump a bit longer with no real recriminations. Business sense #1 if you're going to can someone do it right away.

Too easy

I've been lucky the past few years. They have a deal with my cell phone company (T-Mobile) it's free if you pick it up a few days before the season starts.

The MLB is playing a game at the Bristol Speedway this weekend. The first MLB game in Tennessee. Here's a look at the guy who makes these venues work... https://cardinalnews.org/2025/08/01/salems-murray-cook-built-baseballs-field-of-dreams-now-hes-turned-the-bristol-speedway-into-a-diamond/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Salem s Murray Cook built baseball s Field of Dreams Now he s turned the Bristol speedway into a diamond&utm_campaign=Friday%2C Aug 1%2C 2025

The bill includes board and lodging for Adams (30s/week) and his servants (15s/week), and Adams’s portion of the candles (4s/week) and liquor (£13 10s over the entire period, around a third of his total cost) he and his fellow boarders have consumed.

This isn’t the NFL’s first foray into New York—in 1921 there had been a team called Brickley’s Giants, but it folded after just two games. The owner of that team has been approached about renewing his franchise; he isn’t interested but suggests his friend Mara be owner. Three other teams are also launched today: the Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Rollers and Pottsville (Pa.) Maroons. Only the Giants survive as a franchise, although Providence will win the NFL championship in 1928.

TBH Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon were both pre internet and the rise of outrageous talk radio

I don’t remember anyone losing it over a teenage Brooke Shield’s jean ad. Or worse teen Shields in the nearly porn Blue Lagoon. (

Who the heck is Sydney Sweeney and why am I supposed to be outraged by a Jean commercial I've never seen? https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17540529394747008ba2aea76/raw?utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+–+Aug.+02%2C+2025&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=eWuxOgz0Vc%2BgjpEkDWIPck2rOa6NRf2%2B%2Bukq5oyN%2FFgruscif1yleqnYR7O%2F6Pwh&bt_ts=1754052939476

i'm impressed by Lovett's hands as well

TeSLAA is the only scrub to impress me so far

On his own ship. In fact he defied his father. Once he got to America and told the Continental Congress he'd work for free. The fact that he survived the Battle of Brandywine is also interesting. My favorite is his relationship with a Virginia slave prior to Yorktown. One named James, who was owned by a fellow named Armistead. Lafayette used him as a spy on the British.

AI tells me either Malloy or Perez, Jung and a mid level prospect.

Lafayette has a great story. There seem to be several rein-actors touring or wrapping up tours in honor of his visit to the US in 1824 at the invitation of Pres Monroe. edited I think a lot has to do with his role in the Hamilton story, or at least the musical version.

He sure loves tacky things

That's happening here as well. Eastward expansion from the Richmond suburbs as well as westward from Hampton, Newport News. Areas that were once primarily agriculture now being considered for new housing (We have a development across from us with an expected several hundred homes being developed). There are a couple of things happening here. 1) Older farms where the owners have passed on, the kids have moved and none of them want the property. 2) Population growth in the older cities and locally is either pushing folks out of Richmond and Newport News or an influx of retirees (guilty) looking to relocate from either northern climes or escaping Florida and South Carolinian. Throw in the usual addition of military transfers. The old timers complain. But forget that the decided to move here 10,20,30 years for basically the same reasons.