The Latest Musings (6/24/2023)
Riddleblog Update:
If you listen to the Blessed Hope Podcast, I recently uploaded a postscript to season two: What Is Next for the Blessed Hope Podcast? Season Two Wrap-Up. I explain where we are going and why. Look for a short series entitled “The Future” before we start season three, when we take up Paul’s Corinthian letters.
Currently Reading:
Now that I am retired, I can read things I want to read just because I want to read them. And I have the time to do so.
First up was Jack Curry’s The 1998 New York Yankees -- The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever. A great read from someone who covered that team (Curry was the Yankees beat writer for the NY Times) and still had standing twenty-five years later to follow up with the players from that team in preparation for this book. There’s much here I didn’t know (David Wells had a terrible hangover when he pitched his perfect game), and much here I had forgotten (the Yankees were 73-1 when leading after seven innings, Bernie Williams won the batting title, El-Duque’s remarkable season, Jim Spencer’s incredible home run binge at the end of the year).
One of the on-going debates among baseball fans is which is the greatest team of all time? There are five teams usually mentioned as candidates: the 1906 Cubs, the 1909 Pirates, the 1927 Yankees, the 1939 Yankees, and the 1998 Yankees. Jack Curry makes a good case that the 1998 team was the best of all-time. I agree. More importantly, it was my favorite team of all-time. I trace my Yankees fandom back to Dodger Stadium June of 1964, when my parents took me and my sister (who was cat-called by some of the Angel player’s to my dad’s chagrin) where the Yankees faced the Angels. Anaheim Stadium was still under construction, so the Angels played their home games that year at Chavez Ravine.
Regardless of whether or not the Yankees were the greatest team of all-time, they were my personal favorite. I really miss that team. Curry’s great book reminded me why. Here’s Wikipedia Entry on the 1998 Yankees
Recommended Links:
Scott Clark continues his “review” of J-Mac’s The Gospel According to Jesus:
The Fourth Volume of Petrus Van Mastritch’s Theoretical Practical Theology (Volume 4, Redemption In Christ) is ready. Right up there with Turretin!
The reconstructed face of one of the first Christians in England (from the seventh century). This is remarkable: Behold the Likely Face of a 7th Century Anglo Saxon Teenage Girl
Some Fun Stuff (or proof we live in a fallen world):
Yup, that’s what I’d expect from down under. Feral Hog Steals 18 Beers, Gets Drunk And Starts A Fight With A Cow Before Passing Out Under A Tree
The family that brawls together: Giving New Meaning to the Question, "Who Wants the Leg or the Thigh?"
Giant snails invade Florida: Invasive Giant African Snails in Florida. What to do about it? Here’s a suggestion as to how to get rid of them—a fast food drive-through, L’ets Car Go. Snails can be baked or boiled and served with a wide choice of dipping sauces: Chipotle, Curry, Ranch-Style, hot Cajun, or Korean Ssamjang sauce. It could be all the rage. Better to get them, before they eat your stucco house.
This sounds like Tom Sawyer’s Island at Disneyland to me: Meth Heads Take over Florida Island - Build Tree House and Trampoline
Because the Fourth of July Is Coming