Ode to a Cub fan dying young. RIP Ron Santo

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Friday December 03, 2010 · 5:59 PM PST

2010/12/03 · 17:59

When I was ten years old, I was a baseball FANATIC. I played ball every minute I could from the time I was eight. If there wasn't anyone to play with, I threw the ball up and hit it, or I threw it onto the roof of our house to practice catching it.

When I was eight, I wanted more than anything to be a baseball player. When I was eight and a half, I found out that I had the wrong genitalia to be a baseball player (okay, I didn't even know what genitalia were, but I knew I couldn't be a major league baseball player because I was a girl.) Perspective alert: if I had been a boy, it would probably have taken another year or so before I figured out I wasn't going to be Mickey Mantle.

The spring of my tenth year, 1969, my family moved to Chicago. And the most amazing collection of wonderful baseball players were playing in Chicago that season.

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 7:18 PM PDT

2010/11/05 · 19:18

Are you surprised? I'm not

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 8:31 PM PDT

2009/09/01 · 20:31

Once again, Rachel blows my mind. She is an amazing interviewer, night after night after night. Tonight, she was as good as I've ever seen her, taking on Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security.
Last night's transcript
h/t to codeman38 for the link to the transcript

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 7:53 PM PST

2009/01/18 · 19:53

I watched the inagural concert We Are One three times looking for Bishop Robinson's invocation. Finally resorted to using the Google. No videos that I could find, but I did finally find a site with a transcription of his prayer.

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Tuesday January 06, 2009 · 8:20 PM PST

2009/01/06 · 20:20

Rachel rocks. I have to say, she is totally the voice I've been looking for. She's talking about Feinstein; who, eventually (very eventually) concedes that torture is never okay.

Which is neat, if not exactly inspiring.

And, well, she just gets better and better.

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 4:15 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 16:15

I've had a great day, saw Obama in Germantown. Walked around for awhile. Then came home to watch the Flyers game (okay, truth is, I don't really care about the Flyers that much, especially while the Phillies are still playing. Just wanted to see if the crowd were white racist hockey fans or, you know, Philadelphians for Obama). Here's what happened, below the fold.

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 6:08 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 18:08

I am 50 years old (next month); have been a feminist since I was 8 and realized that I would never be able to be a major league baseball player because I was a girl.

When I went to college (Indiana U; ask me later about my class with Bobby Knight), I STILL thought I could be a player and went to the gym to play basketball. There were exactly zero women on ten courts; but I wanted to play, so I got myself into a game, with four young men I didn't know as teammates. Gym bball is rough & tumble; as many of you know. I took a charge and got absolutely blasted into the next court. One of my teammates tried the "how could you do this to a girl" line on the guy. I intervened with "No problem, I picked the game."

Follow me below the fold for my real point.

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