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Matthew

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  1. What your wine preference reveals about your personality
  2. Very envious that you saw the Polo Grounds. I read a lot of baseball history, especially growing up, and I also thought "how foreign those stadiums back east are." Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, et. al., they were so different than the modern world, I loved it whenever I could see a picture of them (this was way back in the pre-computer Stone Age), always blank-and-white, always mysterious. I still love to look at pictures of them.
  3. I am insanely, and I mean INSANELY, jealous that you saw a game at the Polo Grounds. Just bury me now and tell me you also went to Ebbets Field.
  4. It's confusing here in NoCal, I keep hearing two age limits: +65 go first. And reports that anyone +55 can get a shot. Either way, the latest word I received from John Muir Medical is +65 and three weeks are already booked. So this 62 year old has no idea when I'm getting the call, I figure toward summer. I was hesitant, but I just read the Boris Johnson says the new strain is 30% more lethal, that's scary.
  5. Sad day. Aaron was a classy understated player, with a quick, short swing, never seeming to be off balance. I was able to see homeruns 707 & 708 in San Diego and it is a memory I treasure. Kind of amazing, Aaron was chasing Ruth's record and only a little over 8,000 came to the game, but that was Padres' baseball back then. Box Score
  6. Been thinking of giving Williams a shot, last year I read a good book on the Inklings.
  7. Yeah, that's for sure. I remember what a big deal it was when Sutton got into a fight with Steve Garvey, heaven's above, we're on a street called love, you'd think the world had come to an end in Dodgersland.
  8. Theo Epstein to MLB was not on my card. It seems like a placeholder job to me. This way, he can get a good look at all the teams, and maybe invest in a group to take over a franchise. If before that, he can help speed up games and add some common sense to things, good for him.
  9. PS: Definitely NSFW! His restaurant had terrible food. Hate to say, but even if that Jackson play was changed, Dodgers still get steamrolled.
  10. Tommy Lasorda died today. Dang, this guy was involved in so many of my memories of Dodger baseball. A unique personality. I remember how highly he was touted when he replaced Walter Alston (The Dugout Statue), and these young players coming up at the same time. Garvey, Lopes, Cey, Russell, Ferguson, Valentine (sadly injured). It was an amazing time to be a Dodger fan.
  11. Carl Jung's Red Book Liber Novus for some reason kept calling out to me: "Buy me! Buy me!" Who am I to say no to a book? it's gorgeous!
  12. Nickel & Nickel Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 Quarry Vineyard
  13. Last month a close friend died from covid that he contracted at his assisted living facility. He was the contact person who I met that introduced me into the organization that I'm still in now, knew him for forty years. Maybe because I'm in California, but I see 2021 as a year that will be in a continual stay-at-home mode, off and on, throughout the year. It's impossible to plan anything. I'm responsible for planning a big, five hundred person hotel conference event; had to cancel 2020 and forget 2021. I've postponed it to 2025, but even then, who knows if that kind of event is possible even then given the new reality. I'm trying my best to be responsible and attentive to others. I always wear a mask outside or in a public area. When I have to go to in-person large group meetings with others from out of state, I always test afterward (there's a good, accessible program in Napa). My big fear is what the present situation is doing to our society, it seems as if a generation of students are being lost with the shut downs. Even when schools open, who knows what the quality of their eduction will be, and I don't mean this as a criticism of teachers or school administrations, it's a difficult situation and there's no easy way out. The elderly have it bad, a lot of people out of work, despair is getting more prevalent, who knows where it all lead. Still, I'm hopeful that things will work out for the good, and eventually, some kind of normalcy will return, hopefully by the summer of 2022.
  14. Singing in the Rain. It's the movie I return to time and time again. It's my all time favorite.
  15. Here's to a better 2021 for everyone. I almost want to say: "It can't get any worse!" but I don't want to tempt the gods.
  16. Good News. The oldest looking cast of students this side of Beverly Hills 90210, very enjoyable movie though.
  17. How is this one? I've play his 70's music a lot, but never listened to this one.
  18. Dean Jones & Suzanne Pleshette. I wonder how many movies like this they appeared in? Disney did have its stable of solid, dependable comic actors back in the day.
  19. I get what you saying, in a way, but Thoreau (and the Thoreau family as a whole) was very committed to the Abolition Movement, as well as a participant in the Underground Railroad, so that outreach to others was there. One of the things that Dassow brings out is Thoreau's closeness to his family and the wide circle of people he knew. It was a complex life, and there are various ways of looking at it. Hope you enjoy it!
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