What is your 70s anthem?

[Lord Jim]

if you can stand to go without my wit and wisdom......

It won't be easy, but somehow I'll soldier on...

[wesw]

I thought you would like the orioles themed, who s on first routine...

[Lord Jim]

In the middle of a thread about 70's rock anthems?

Not so much...

I have to confess that the relationship is not immediately apparent to me...

But maybe I'm just a little dense....

[Joe Guy]

if you can stand to go without my wit and wisdom......

That's how I'd describe this place with a missing wesw...

[wesw]

well it started with the pirate s un official anthem from 79 and kinda meandered from there. a river flows where it will....

.. I was talking to guin anyhow...

...the senators haven t had a good team since walter Johnston played

[Lord Jim]

it started with the pirate s un official anthem from 79 and kinda meandered from there. a river flows where it will....

In this case, down a one sentence one minute apart multi-post tributary...

[Joe Guy]

the senators haven t had a good team since walter Johnston played

The Senators haven't even had a team in over 50 years.

[Lord Jim]

Not true...

43 years..

The last season for The Senators was in 1971...

I remember it well...

[Joe Guy]

The Senators haven't even had a team in over 40 years...

[wesw]

my work here is done.

[Joe Guy]

Say it ain't so, wesw.

Oh wait... that was the White Sox.

[Lord Jim]

The Senators haven't even had a team in over 40 years...

Oh man, you do not want to get me started on that...

Stolen away from Washington in the middle of the night and moved to Arlington lawd gimme strength Texas, by Robert "Roasting In Hell" Short...

I'll never forgive that no good so sonuvabitich...

[Gob]

The ONLY real 70's anthem!!

[Sue U]

The ONLY real 70's anthem!!

You've got a point there.

[MajGenl.Meade]

... but as anthems go, surely not a patch on this?

[Big RR]

The Senators haven't even had a team in over 40 years...

Oh man, you do not want to get me started on that...

Stolen away from Washington in the middle of the night and moved to Arlington lawd gimme strength Texas, by Robert "Roasting In Hell" Short...

I'll never forgive that no good so sonuvabitich...

Really Jim? For Washington--first in war, first in peace, last in the national league?

[Lord Jim]

Really Jim? For Washington--first in war, first in peace, last in the national league?

Actually in that old line, it was "last in the American League"... (As I recall in my youth, we were constantly competing with Cleveland for cellar dweller rights, while the Orioles, led by the insufferable Earl Weaver, dominated the division...)

Today in the National League, Washington is making a much better accounting of itself...

ETA:

However, sadly, not in the National Football League...

[Big RR]

Now that you mention it, I think you're correct. Ah youth!

By the way, the first time I heard that was in a Little Rascals/Our Gang short dating from the 30s (probably) so I guess they were consistent.

[Lord Jim]

The last time the Washington Senators won the World Series was also an election year:



One thing that did make the cut on my Bucket List is:

"Find out where that no good bastard Robert Short is buried, and piss on his grave..."

My feelings about Short run very deep...

I could go into all the ludicrous trades he made to help destroy the team before he stole it, but the big thing for me is that he didn't just steal the team...

He stole a big chunk of my youth away, just as I was really starting to get into baseball...

I take that very personally...

To give you an idea of how I feel about Short, if I were asked the question "Who do you loathe and despise more; Edward Snowden or Robert Short?"

I'd have to flip a coin...

[Big RR]

To start you on your enuretic quest: (from Wikipedia)

On March 21, 2005, Short died of leukemia at New York Presbyterian Hospital.[2] He is buried in Atherton Cemetery in Danville, Illinois, the city of his birth.

Happy pissing.