Comments on: Catching Up http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:23:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mahopac maze http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-492445 mahopac maze Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:53:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-492445 <p>I couldn’t help but pipe up — although I wasn’t born when “The Catch” occurred, I did buy and assemble a plastic “Revell” model replica of the event that I assembled with Duco cement around 1965 in my basement with my father (not a plastic model enthusiast, but a great craftsman). So I’ve always felt as if I saw The Catch myself, because I lived and suffered through the creation of the replica. The hardest part was getting that damned “24″ to stick to the back of Willie’s shirt.</p> I couldn’t help but pipe up — although I wasn’t born when “The Catch” occurred, I did buy and assemble a plastic “Revell” model replica of the event that I assembled with Duco cement around 1965 in my basement with my father (not a plastic model enthusiast, but a great craftsman). So I’ve always felt as if I saw The Catch myself, because I lived and suffered through the creation of the replica. The hardest part was getting that damned “24″ to stick to the back of Willie’s shirt.

]]> By: SharonRB http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491802 SharonRB Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:54:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491802 <p><a href="#comment-491719"><em>LandOfTheFree @ 76 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Yes, SharonRB - that was me. I’m the one with the weird work schedule that changes every day. Life of a musician!</p> <p>I really hope Nancy will run again. She’s really an outstanding person. I believe that if the state and national party would have lifted a finger to help her a little bit, she could have defeated Knollenberg. Next time up, his seat is ripe for the picking.</p></blockquote> <p>Well, the DCCC is targeting Knollenberg in ‘08, so we should get some help next time. For some reason I thought you were a nurse with a crazy schedule! I guess the fact you’re a musician never came up.</p> LandOfTheFree @ 76

Yes, SharonRB – that was me. I’m the one with the weird work schedule that changes every day. Life of a musician!

I really hope Nancy will run again. She’s really an outstanding person. I believe that if the state and national party would have lifted a finger to help her a little bit, she could have defeated Knollenberg. Next time up, his seat is ripe for the picking.

Well, the DCCC is targeting Knollenberg in ‘08, so we should get some help next time. For some reason I thought you were a nurse with a crazy schedule! I guess the fact you’re a musician never came up.

]]> By: Wordsmith http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491794 Wordsmith Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:47:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491794 <p>I LOVE BASEBALL! Love watching it, love playing, love my nephews playing it while we watch it!!!!</p> <p>Just thot I’d let ya know. I don’t care crap about statistics; don’t care about that part of it. But I DO LOVE BASEBALL.</p> I LOVE BASEBALL! Love watching it, love playing, love my nephews playing it while we watch it!!!!

Just thot I’d let ya know. I don’t care crap about statistics; don’t care about that part of it. But I DO LOVE BASEBALL.

]]> By: LandOfTheFree http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491719 LandOfTheFree Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:15:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491719 <p>Yes, SharonRB - that was me. I’m the one with the weird work schedule that changes every day. Life of a musician!</p> <p>I really hope Nancy will run again. She’s really an outstanding person. I believe that if the state and national party would have lifted a finger to help her a little bit, she could have defeated Knollenberg. Next time up, his seat is ripe for the picking.</p> Yes, SharonRB – that was me. I’m the one with the weird work schedule that changes every day. Life of a musician!

I really hope Nancy will run again. She’s really an outstanding person. I believe that if the state and national party would have lifted a finger to help her a little bit, she could have defeated Knollenberg. Next time up, his seat is ripe for the picking.

]]> By: dipper http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491703 dipper Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:03:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491703 <p>Sharon RB,</p> <p>I would be interested in sharing a room. How do I contact you?</p> Sharon RB,

I would be interested in sharing a room. How do I contact you?

]]> By: cdc http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491701 cdc Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:03:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491701 <p>In the summer of 1973 when I was playing little league baseball for one of the lower ranked teams, one bright spot was the all-star tournament in Roosevelt.<br /> That’s a small town over by what was then a fairly new reservoir, where the owners of a campground/store/laundry gave two twelve year old boys free run of the shoreline and fishing poles, food and beds, rides back to town for the games, and a minimal amount of oversight. At least that’s the way I remember it, a week of almost total freedom, interrupted by the necessity of organized competition. A sweet gig, is what I’m trying to say.<br /> Now, as to why this is important to me today. The reason the Couple by the lake were so preoccupied, at that particular moment in history. Congressional Hearings on the Watergate break in were on Television every day, so we ate our meals from trays in the living room while watching the proceedings and learning invaluable lesions of civic responsibility and having our questions answered in a very loving and serious manner.<br /> It wasn’t the genesis of my political awareness. I’d all ready lived though a dozen turbulent and violent years, but this was the first time I felt I was making some contribution just by being present in the home of patriots.<br /> Today I’m following the Liars trial with what I hope is the same devotion my benefactors showed some 33 years ago, and I get an even better seat with the FDL crew giving a play by play from the courthouse, and loving, patient answers to the questions, with all this legal jargon and subterfuge being throw around, so that even this observer is able to follow the mighty hand of justice, despite the mighty wurlitzer.<br /> We never went hungry though the name was Starvation, and we’re not going hungry today, living in the midst of a new kind of Lake,<br /> Thanks all.</p> In the summer of 1973 when I was playing little league baseball for one of the lower ranked teams, one bright spot was the all-star tournament in Roosevelt.
That’s a small town over by what was then a fairly new reservoir, where the owners of a campground/store/laundry gave two twelve year old boys free run of the shoreline and fishing poles, food and beds, rides back to town for the games, and a minimal amount of oversight. At least that’s the way I remember it, a week of almost total freedom, interrupted by the necessity of organized competition. A sweet gig, is what I’m trying to say.
Now, as to why this is important to me today. The reason the Couple by the lake were so preoccupied, at that particular moment in history. Congressional Hearings on the Watergate break in were on Television every day, so we ate our meals from trays in the living room while watching the proceedings and learning invaluable lesions of civic responsibility and having our questions answered in a very loving and serious manner.
It wasn’t the genesis of my political awareness. I’d all ready lived though a dozen turbulent and violent years, but this was the first time I felt I was making some contribution just by being present in the home of patriots.
Today I’m following the Liars trial with what I hope is the same devotion my benefactors showed some 33 years ago, and I get an even better seat with the FDL crew giving a play by play from the courthouse, and loving, patient answers to the questions, with all this legal jargon and subterfuge being throw around, so that even this observer is able to follow the mighty hand of justice, despite the mighty wurlitzer.
We never went hungry though the name was Starvation, and we’re not going hungry today, living in the midst of a new kind of Lake,
Thanks all.

]]> By: funluvn http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491680 funluvn Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:44:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491680 <p>Christy, if you want to see “the guy who makes the greatest catches”, go to youtube and look up Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals. He has a good number of incredible catches that will make you stand up and cheer!</p> Christy, if you want to see “the guy who makes the greatest catches”, go to youtube and look up Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals. He has a good number of incredible catches that will make you stand up and cheer!

]]> By: SharonRB http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491627 SharonRB Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:00:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491627 <p><a href="#comment-491615"><em>LandOfTheFree @ 69 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>SharonRB @67: no problem. I remembered that you told me this was your username at DU, so I put together the connection. I’m female, a little taller than you, brown hair, sometimes wearing glasses but more likely contacts. If I remember correctly, you were also in the group of us at the Farmington Founder’s Festival. I got there after the parade, but we did lunch @ Quizno’s with Nancy and a few others.</p> <p>Do you know if Nancy is considering running again? I hope so. She’s a terrific candidate - so knowledgeable, with excellent ideas and so much positive energy.</p> <p>I’m sure we’ll run into each other at another one of these political events in town. I’ll try to make it to Marcy’s book signing on Thursday, if I can change my work schedule.</p></blockquote> <p>Okay, that all helped — now I know exactly who you are. I didn’t know you were a musician. Didn’t you often have to leave to get to work in the afternoon? I wondered what had happened to you later in the campaign — I didn’t realize you had gone out of town.</p> <p>Nancy is <b>considering</b> running — she just hasn’t made a definite decision yet. Currently she’s chief of staff for Dan Mulhern. Hopefully she’ll decide in the next few months.</p> LandOfTheFree @ 69

SharonRB @67: no problem. I remembered that you told me this was your username at DU, so I put together the connection. I’m female, a little taller than you, brown hair, sometimes wearing glasses but more likely contacts. If I remember correctly, you were also in the group of us at the Farmington Founder’s Festival. I got there after the parade, but we did lunch @ Quizno’s with Nancy and a few others.

Do you know if Nancy is considering running again? I hope so. She’s a terrific candidate – so knowledgeable, with excellent ideas and so much positive energy.

I’m sure we’ll run into each other at another one of these political events in town. I’ll try to make it to Marcy’s book signing on Thursday, if I can change my work schedule.

Okay, that all helped — now I know exactly who you are. I didn’t know you were a musician. Didn’t you often have to leave to get to work in the afternoon? I wondered what had happened to you later in the campaign — I didn’t realize you had gone out of town.

Nancy is considering running — she just hasn’t made a definite decision yet. Currently she’s chief of staff for Dan Mulhern. Hopefully she’ll decide in the next few months.

]]> By: Tannen http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491620 Tannen Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:56:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491620 <p>Time for proscecutor Amici to put cross examination in a clearer light.</p> Time for proscecutor Amici to put cross examination in a clearer light.

]]> By: biff diggerence http://firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491619 biff diggerence Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:56:08 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/05/catching-up/#comment-491619 <p>About the “Wertz Catch” </p> <p>“Say Hey” didn’t think it was a big deal at all.</p> <p>Apparently, in the Negro leagues, outfielders were taught to run to the fence on long fly balls and catch them “overhead”. Routine.</p> About the “Wertz Catch”

“Say Hey” didn’t think it was a big deal at all.

Apparently, in the Negro leagues, outfielders were taught to run to the fence on long fly balls and catch them “overhead”. Routine.

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