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    I never bothered to gaze at Ruth's statistics. If you peruse the statistical bible on Ruth's stats and want to count the number of positive stats wherein he led his league (and often both leagues) in significant offensive stats...there are 91 bolded totals. From runs to walks, to HR's to you name it, Ruth dominated like no one else ever dominated in his own era. Amazing. He is ranked 10th all time in career batting average yet led his league in that total only once. He led more often in Runs than RBI's. (Guess it was good to be Lou Gehrig--batting behind Babe Ruth.). His level of dominance is unsurpassable--amazing. Really bigger than life.
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    The first story is excellent and revealing. How interesting.....the first celebrity pro athlete....and paid....and paid well for the publicity that went with his fame. Very interesting. On the other topic. Admittedly I'm not an expert on the Babe. He was way before my time, essentially a mythological figure in sports. When one reviews his "stats" here its stunning. He led his league and many times all of baseball in an overwhelming volume of offensive stats an overwhelming volume of times. Cripes he led his league in some pitching stats one year. He is the all time leader in Slugging percentage, On Base and Slugging Percentage and OBS+. He was in a league of his own. I understand that at the peak of his career and his earnings it was mentioned to him that he was earning more than the President, to which he retorted he had a better year than the president. He was apparently accurate on that point.
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    I got to watch Doc play in person a fair number of times--I'm not sure...possibly 6-10 times or so, once in Long Island--all the rest down here. The down here portion would have been during his period for the 76'ers till he retired....possibly once or more (or less) a year. Philly was a fun team to watch. They featured the best most athletic players. At their best they also coincided with great Celtics teams. They were formidable. Their style was more free flowing. Doc, or another star might take control at any moment. Doc, as has been said was ahead of his time. He featured the flowing flying, from anywhere slam dunk or float to the basket. He was human poetry. He was distinguished. At any time he could make a play that was not going to be duplicated by anyone else in the league. Even in his last years it seemed that he could beat defenders from the outside, soar, and either dunk or float one in. The above might sound rote, but it was the opposite--stupendous. Its been 30 plus years since he retired. I didn't live in Philly, but had I --I would have gotten to watch Doc do the supernatural about 20 times a year in person. That would have been thrilling. He really played on a higher level.
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    Not sure of the relevance of that to the issue of gun control. BTW: Columbine occurred in "98 and Sandy Hook occurred in 2012. If one is interested in the ebb and flow of Dems and the GOP in the Presidency, Senate, and House over time there is this description of divided government in the US.
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    I spoke to the guys loading the tables chairs, and non BOH equipment. They bought a "ton" of stuff--enough for several restaurants, or so they claimed.
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    Maybe it is a 72 hour window. Maybe (hopefully) it is longer. Actually the GOP house got its Arse handed to it in 2018. A tremendous loss. During the election tWump campaigned....and said it was about him. Well if that is so that loss got his arse handed to him. Hopefully there will be similar momentum in this upcoming election, hopefully the House goes more Democratic, and the Senate goes Democratic. Hopefully. The Virginia state legislatures are very evenly divided at this point. They are close with a small edge to the GOP. There is a statewide election this Autumn. Great opportunity to try and get Dems elected to replace the GOP. Remember: Following the shooting in Virginia Beach (May 31 this year--12 murdered plus the shooter shot by law enforcement) there has yet to be a definitive description on why the shooter did this. The investigation is ongoing, but no one had immediate reasons or ideas. The shooter was a long term employee of Virginia Beach and in good standing. He was also a "loner". Shortly afterwards the Governor called for a state hearing on guns. With no warning the GOP tabled the discussion after about an hour. The state legislature had a large number of protesting and supportive people. They were there from both sides. Among the pro gun people there were people who were openly carrying weapons. The makeup of the Virginia legislature COULD change this Autumn. It will be close. It will take a get out to vote campaign. Should the legislature change hands and the Dems prevail, and the Dems, with a majority take up changing state wide gun laws.....I bet there will be further issues. But that is another story. Lets get a new legislature in there.
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    Ultimately the voters are going to have to turn out Republicans and vote in Democrats. The GOP is probably somewhere around 95% tied in with the NRA and per what I've read the more extreme element of the NRA won out over other internal groups. In other words they will fight any changes anywhere softening the availability of guns. The current GOP dilemma of "avoiding the topic" has been something that has been "about to occur" for a long time. Now: Two big shootings within a day of one another...that followed the Gilroy shooting by a couple of days. We have this sick amazing gun problem that is unique to the world and we have a powerful lobby with one party completely dedicated to preventing any changes. Time to change that party.
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    That was Friday. Today the buyers were picking up the equipment. The landlord is pushing this. I strongly suspect the landlord was owed a healthy amount of money...pushed the closing and now pushed this auction, sale and removal of equipment. In fact there is a new large "for lease" sign on the Wilson Blvd side of the street. The landlord is not wasting time.....now. Meanwhile I sooooo miss both Ray's and HellBurger. What the hell happened?????
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    At this point, assuming Graham Holdings are pretty hands off and allow the experts to run Clydes...its a great move as it keeps Clyde's in Well Meaning Local Hands. (I am biased toward the Graham's). On the sale of the Post to Amazon...I say thank goodness for that. Under Bezos the Post has revived itself. Another great local occurrence imho.
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    ..and the deal closed Link Good luck to the new LOCAL owners and well done to both the buyer and seller in keeping the news close to vest
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    Among the great athletes of the 20th century Julius Erving, Dr. J, deserves mention among the most famous, most relevant, best and most impactful. He played professional basketball from 1971 to 1987, 11 years in the NBA for Philadelphia, five years in the ABA for two different teams. Dr J, who has been referenced here quite a bit, albeit without a thread, introduced artistic soaring, starting from the outer edge of the court slam dunking to the NBA. He was certainly not the first, but he elevated it and turned it into a "thing", now, and for 3 decades one of the most commented and revered parts of the game. During his first five years of professional ball he played in the upstart ABA, winning two championships and dominated his team and the league, at times leading his team in points rebounds assists and guarding the best forward on the other team. In the NBA he led a Philadelphia team that kept competing for a championship all the while featuring the individual play of stars, (like Erving) while negating the team game. Frankly I got to watch him a bit in the 70's and 80's. In the 70's I saw him play for the Nets against a Denver team with a similarly talented super duper star, David Thompson, wherein they both elevated their games to lead their teams and created one of the more memorable sporting events I've ever seen. Dr J is among the 50 great basketball players of all time, appropriately so. Some of his most startling plays..... and then a look at his ABA slam dunk competition against among others David Thompson.....
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    On the other side of the coin...... Possibly the GREATEST SONG EVER (if you were a budding young skinny sex starved shy boy, at the Jersey Shore, in the early 1960's.......
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    Yesterday, in conjunction with National Cheesecake Day: I researched cheesecakes and purchased a medium sized strawberry cheesecake from CC Factory for about $37/38. It depleted the sizable CC Factory gift card I had from the beginning of the year and was the third cheesecake our staff had shared. It reminded me that I hadn't purchased a cheesecake from the delivery service for Carnegie Deli so I checked that out on Google. Similarly sized cheesecakes sell for about $79-84. Big price difference. It also reminded me of a promise here from several years ago to purchase a Carnegie's Cheesecake as that recipe is the one I and probably thousands of rough age and location peers swear by as it is the recipe of a once favorite cheesecake in North Jersey, the chef's son and his recipe moved to the Carnegie following a devastating fire that destroyed the Claremont Diner (story and a better story here) All that being said it reminded me that I hadn't ordered a Carnegie Cheesecake. So I'll do that in the next month or so. Now back to the purpose of this thread. Having researched the Carnegie Cheesecake I immediately started seeing ads for Goldbelly, the firm that ships the Carnegie Cheesecakes on Facebook and on Google Ads on Newspaper sites Endlessly. They immediately popped up. That is the result of the overwhelming level of personal data that web sites pull from your searches. Research ANYTHING, and if there is an advertising connection websites such as Facebook and Google and endless others will thrust those ads before your web searching eyes....EVERYWHERE.. So much for privacy. There are sites that protect privacy. Google and its browser chrome are not among them. They completely ignore privacy, and in fact violate promises for privacy. Their terms of service, so broadly written allow them to identify your search preferences to thousands of buyers. Fry their monopolistic butts is my response. Meanwhile in a month or so I'll try the Carnegie Cheesecake and report back on that cheesecake that was the "best" of my childhood and the lives of possibly in the aggregate millions in Northern Jersey in the 1950's, 60's and 70's in that section of Northern NJ.
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    As opposed to the extraordinarily large plump and tasty mussels at Fireworks/Arlington from last Autumn the mussels today (Monday's = $6/pot mussels) they were puny and tasteless . I discussed with the bartender (who talks a good game but I suspect has no insights--((who can blame him)) ) who told me they are ordering from the same provider. Who can figure. Meanwhile he referenced a recent article I too had read: Chesapeake Blue Crabs are large and numerous this season but expensive. Could it be that the major force, the man upstairs has deemed that mussels have shrunk and blue crabs have grown???? Inquiring minds want to know!!!!
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    Washingtonian opines about the options at Ballston Quarter. Having not tried everything I suggest Cucina al Volo. Great pasta and sauces.
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    I would agree. It is an upscale food hall type place not at all like the food courts that have dominated malls for decades. I have not trie Copa yet but will give it a go. Of note I was there during the spell of hot weather and the large glass doors were wide open to the outdoors and the children’s play area. You could feel the coolness outdoors. An immense amount of air conditioning hitting the outdoors. I hope those tenants make big big big money. If they keep that up the electric bill will set records.
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    The artical is from 2011. I recall it. It’s a terrific article for bibap’s and boobop’s and bububb’s. Writers have to write. I watched Palmer pitch. From the stands or a tv I can’t tell a curve from a change up to a fast ball. I don’t know if the pitch is high or low. I played years of stickball against a quality high school pitcher and couldn’t a hit a damn thing. Palmer pitched with what must have been the best defense in baseball history, Brooksie, Belanger, and Blair plus other good defensive players. Frankly I saw more of the Orioles during their good but not the best team in baseball history: the late 60’s to the beginning of the 70’s. All I can say is that Palmer bore down got outs and prevented runs. He was a great pitcher. Meanwhile writers have to write and bibap’s make for a whole new world of content. Meanwhile I disagree with you about Koufax though I frankly didn’t see much of him. Must be the Jew in he and I. An old age and class mate friend and Koufax fan from our youth was at the BB HOF for the first time last summer telling me all about it. Turns out there were Koufax fans there wearing his uniform. The guy has a lot of fans from Brooklyn
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    ARod speaks well of Mike Mussina
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    Wingo’s in Georgetown and Glover Park deserve mention among the best in the area: 1. They specialize in wings 2. I think over 20 different flavors 3. Been around since the early 2000’s 4. Primarily a popular takeout place their newish Glover Park location is a popular neighborhood restaurant with a larger menu and two bars. It is informal and youthful. 5. I used to pick up wings in the early 2000’s in Gtowne and forgot about them—ate wings at the Glover Park location (2200 block Wisconsin Ave) recently The wings remain tasty and well cooked if not huge. Very well done, moist meat excellent sauce—I had a tasty lemon pepper Nice portion. (I probably prefer Stan’s . Both places serve booze but Stan’s adds a magical mystical ingredient to its booze—others call it quantity) Regardless if you are in the area Wingo’s is an excellent choice.
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    She is an excellent/funny/profane writer and sure does know her way around food!!!!!
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    I've been pondering this very issue certainly in light of the death of Hell-Burger, the death of Rays and the closing of the Clarendon Citizen Burger. In fact I'm planning a couple of trips to the well rated burger joints in the area. One minor checking point is that I was a fan of the BGR Wellington a while back. I've had a couple recently and I must admit it is not all I raved about. Sadly not close to HellBurger or Citizen Burger. The search continues.........
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    This update on the thread has me "voting" for the Cuban Club at Earl's in Arlington. OKAY!! It is not a Cubano. OKAY!! much is switched. Regardless it has all the elements of the Cubano with different and in my experience far better ingredients that I get from any of the Cubans I've had over the last few years. It is a superb and robust large sandwich for $10 and is superior to anything I've tried of recent memory.
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    Here is the interview from NPR. Article I am acutely aware that Yelp has a rightfully owned miserable reputation. Regardless their CEO and others would acknowledge they are 100% on target in calling google a monopoly. 4 years ago the WSJ wrote this article addressing how Fed researchers found google was attacking Yelp back in 2012. Regardless of the findings the Obama administration decided not to prosecute. Subsequent to that despite promises and as the majority of web traffic transitioned from desktop to mobile, Google crushed yelp on mobile....just crushed them. It clearly violated the results and promises of the 2012 findings. Yelp has taken a beating from Google. Somehow it survives. I have probably taken about 80 calls from yelp salepeople. (80= a rough guess for a number of businesses.) Haven't spent a dime with them. Some of their salespeople have been professional some somewhat ugly....though I never heard one "threaten" or coerce us as others have experienced. In many ways google does more or less of the worst that yelp does....they just don't get blamed. Google has a teflon coating. If I had to testify I could cite about 4,5,6,maybe 7 precise episodes wherein Google was using its monopoly power to misrepresent results and processes while making more money. Among other things, on the web, they are more powerful than the government and can make or break businesses. Here is a graph showing the growth of their advertising revenues graph Amazing growth. It has crushed the print/newspaper industry In any case there is no doubt google controls the world of search...it is a question of whether the feds choose to do anything about it.
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    I’m on the road (not accessible) to NPR so I can’t listen to the discussion but I would agree 1000 per cent with that assessment . The assessment being that of Stoppleman that Google is a monopoly. The last recent analysis of percentage of search volume being well over 90%!!! Source
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    This morning a staffer from the building was covering up the canopy at the entrance. The Rays the Steaks printing is no longer visible. Boy: I ate at Rays and at Arlington Hellburger during their heyday and during their decline; the decline represented by a thinning of the crowds. It was apparent to me as a diner over time; it must have been far more apparent to Michael. It was far more apparent at HellBurger than at Rays. The meals were virtually always excellent. At one point at Ray's they missed my order while I sat there for a relatively long time. When I made them aware of the mistake they corrected it so automatically and with such ferver--it was impressive. The steaks, the burgers, some of the other dishes were invariably superb. Got to admit that it pisses me off and disappoints me. The damn restaurant business is freaking tough. Hope he walked away with a hidden stash of cash because he sure created and caused a wave for probably most of a decade before the volume started to decrease.
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