at several LA Dodgers ALCS home games. This is what is at stake in Presidential politics -- protection of our flag and our country, which I did in the USAF when that was not a popular or likely thing for someone like me to do -- enlist.
I went into the Air Force thinking it was the Boy Scouts. Nope. I learned damned soon in Basic Training only two branches of the military then had what they called Motivation for those enlistees who screwed up really badly. The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marine Corps. Think Prison, or worse. Just like the PC flight, guys got beaten all the time.
And I remember doing a ceremony at my NATO base in Greece in which we stood in front of the raised Star-Spangled Banner and saluted as the National Anthem blared from a rusty old speaker a la MASH. I felt proud I guess you could say.
And those who never served in the military have no idea what is involved. I often thought our country used totalitarian means to fight the totalitarian USSR.
Back to that National Anthem singing by this hero that seemed to wash clean the mess made by these politicians, I certainly felt proud when the Brother sang at that last Dodgers game.
As editor in Sports at the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel Craig Stanke would say, Holy Merde!
Pardon my French.
But what an admirable and remarkable job Williams did on all the nights he sang.
BRAVO.
Baseball-wise, how about Jon Lester's performance in that Fifth game. As he was exhausting the batters he faced in his final inning, I thought. that is it. I figured the momentum he had built would carry on to the relievers, and it did.
BTW, Tony DeMarco, the great baseball writer I worked with in South Florida always said it was the pitching, not hitting, Stupid. He was right.
Also, when we covered minor league baseball in South Florida with such teams as the Fort Lauderdale Yankees, we often also had the job of being official scorekeepers.
If the ball got anywhere near a defensive player's glove, DeMarco would proclaim "Error."
I would usually say give the guy a break DeMarco. He would likely have called that one play last night an error. The guy got his glove on the ball, didn't he?
Ah! Sports. Always provides relief from an often screwed up world.
Tell 'em Heidi said that.