Eighteen Wheels & A Dozen Roses – Kathy Mattea
More Than A Woman – Bee Gees
Strangelove – Depeche Mode
Hey Jealousy – Gin Blossoms
Glad All Over – The Dave Clark Five
Anchorage – Michelle Shocked
Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Peter, Paul & Mary
Love And Happiness – Al Green
From Jayson Stark’s most recent column
for The Athletic (paywall):
[A]s I watched their
final game together Saturday night, I texted an AL executive and asked if this
October provided any type of vindication for this group. Not surprisingly, I
didn’t get far with that premise.
“It’s hard to get
redemption,” he wrote, “for a complete lack of integrity. (But) I don’t think
any rational people didn’t think they were talented.”
I feel like that
summed it up eloquently. This October was a vivid reminder of the Astros’
talent — but it doesn’t excuse any of the misdeeds that earned them their
rightful place as baseball’s most loathed team. Nor does it excuse their lack
of acceptable contrition for what they did.
Manager Dusty Baker, after the loss, noted that the team members are “ballplayers”
and “men”. Not surprisingly, he neglected to add that they are also cheaters,
dismissing the entire scandal obliquely as “whatever problem they’ve had”.
And let’s not forget that baseball owes Rays manager Kevin Cash and his crew an undying debt of gratitude for short-circuiting Houston’s run towards another World Series.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/06/trump-covid-hospital-late-night/
Pick your favorite.
Trevor Noah: “It’s not karma to
get hit by lightning when you’re standing on the roof of a skyscraper holding a
metal rod while there’s lightning. The universe didn’t do that s--- to you. You
did that s--- to yourself!”
Seth Meyers: “Nothing projects
strength like waving from the back seat of an SUV like a kid headed for soccer
practice. Smart move keeping your juice box between your knees.”
Meyers again: “If there was an
epidemic of bear attacks, these people would be running around in the woods
wearing scarves made of sausage links.”
Stephen Colbert, commenting on Trump’s statement that he had “learned a lot about covid” from his treatments: “Really? You’re learning now? For the last eight months, I’ve heard about millions of people getting infected with covid, hundreds of thousands of [them] dying. But how could I know these people were real if they weren’t me? But now they are me. My thoughts and prayers go to all of myself.”
