There has always been a sub-culture of cheating in sports. In NASCAR,it’s almost a religion, the Patriots took it to a new level in football with their taping of signals, and hockey there is actually a piece of goal tending equipment called a cheater bar – it’s sewn onto a goalies glove. I guess this is all in the spirit of if you don’t get caught it’s not cheating but what’s been going on in baseball for decades is different. Continue reading
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Joy
At the end of the D.A. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop, there comes a performance that took place on a cold June morning in 1967. Everyone was half asleep, all the big guns like Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas had been fired. Yet while those guns had elicited many emotions, it took this one last one to bring out pure, unmitigated joy. Continue reading
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Out of Touch
Sorry about the lateness of today’s post. I went to the eye doctor this morning and he dilated my eyes, which makes it very difficult to read a bright screen. Now that I am able to read a bit, the subject of difficulties in seeing came up in a research newsletter I get and raised an interesting thought. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 