He is buried in Atherton Cemetery in Danville, Illinois,
Danville Illinois it is then...
Looks like my best bet will be to fly into Indianapolis, then take a commuter flight to Vermilion Regional Airport, which is just four miles from Downtown Danville...
Then I'll check into the best hotel they have in Beautiful Downtown Danville,(I'm guessing that will be a Holiday Inn if I'm lucky) and call a cab to take me to the cemetery and back... (I don't want to be driving; I plan to chug a six pack of beer before I make the last leg of my journey....anything worth doing is worth doing well... )
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I had so many interruptions while putting this ETA together I decided to make it a new post...(Note to Wes: it's not one sentence long, and there's about an hour between them)
Lord Jim stands over the grave of Robert Short...
"Hello Bob...
"You don't know me, but I sure remember you....
"Remember the Curt Flood fiasco? Remember how you traded away our Golden Glove winning third baseman, Aurelio Rodriguez, our star shorstop Eddie Brinkman, and our one and only 20 game winning pitcher Joe Coleman for a washed up has-been with a gambling addiction problem named Denny McClain? Who became one of baseball's elite group of 20 game losers going 10-22 that year?
"I'm sure you remember that, Bob...
"And then after you destroyed the team you stole it away in the middle of the night and moved it to Texas...
"Texas, Bob...
The Dallas Cowboys play in Texas Bob, and you took Washington's baseball team, and to add insult to injury, you moved our baseball team to within a stone's throw of where The Dallas Cowboys play...
To paraphrase what Joesph Welch famously asked of Joe McCarthy:
"Did you have no sense of decency? No sense of decency at all?"
I can't forgive you for that Bob...
"I understand you died from Leukemia Bob...From what I've heard that can be a very slow and painful death...
"I certainly hope it was in your case...
"In any event, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time, so on behalf of myself and every other kid in the DC area who had a chunk of their childhood memories stolen away from them because of you...
sssssssssssssss....
"You won't be able to work a concession deal for that beer...just a tiny bit of justice....May you continue to rot in hell for all eternity, you no good bastard..."
"Driver, I'm ready to go back to the hotel...
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Jim--by the time the senators moved to Texas, why weren't you happy to see that pathetic excuse for a team go? they weren't building a lot of happy memories for you in DC, why not ruin the childhoods of some junior cowboys fans? Isn't that karma?
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...
Karma is a biyaazh
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Lord Jim wrote: I had so many interruptions while putting this ETA together I decided to make it a new post...(Note to Wes: it's not one sentence long, and there's about an hour between them)...etc. etc. ad nauseam
wesw... it's the reading thing isn't it?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Big RR, as I'm sure the Gen'l well knows, even having a team that sucks wind is better then having no team at all...
They may be bums, but they're our bums...
Well coming from a state where even the teams that do play here are ashamed to call home (even last year's super bowl claimed to be in NY). I can't really understand that. A crummy team run by an asshole is just that, whether they call my area home or not; there are plenty of other teams to root for. Indeed, usually I detest the home teams because of the higher concentration of asshole fans supporting them and the blatant bias of the commentators toward them on TV or the radio. IMHO, it's much better to support a team where most of the assholes supporting them are hundreds (or thousands) of miles away.
I disagree, Big RR. The home team(s) require support of the home folk(s). Living in NE Ohio and rooting even for Cinci would be rather like cheering on the Nazis instead of the GIs. Pittsburgh or Baltimore or New York - well, even worse - ISIS perhaps.
It is permissible to root for anyone playing AGAINST the aforementioned. Unless of course they are playing each other in which case the true NE Ohio fan hopes the team bus runs over both of 'em before the game.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Big RR wrote:Indeed, usually I detest the home teams because of the higher concentration of asshole fans supporting them
Is that just the Yankees, or are you including the Giants as well?
(Mets fans are just too depressed to be assholes, obvs.)
Both the Yankees and the Giants; to a lesser extent the Mets and Jets. I am not really a baseball fan, but in the AL I root for the Orioles, NL--the Dodgers; for football, NFC--I am a Rams (since the Roman Gabriel days) fan, AFC--the Colts (since the Unitas days). I have been to giants and Jets games (usually based on who they are playing) and find their fans to be pretty lousy to those not rooting for the home team (I know I've written on a couple of occasions on how some Jet fan threw a kids' Patriots helmet out of the upper deck onto the field--what kind of asshole takes a kids helmet and does that?), making my decision even more resolute.
Meade--I understand the reasoning, I just can't get on that bandwagon.
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