What I remember from an anti-war rally

When I was in high school, I went to an anti-Vietnam war rally in Washington. I don’t recall who the speakers were or anything else about the rally. To be honest, I think some kids went because the drinking age in PA was 21 and the drinking age in DC was 18. ( didn’t drink…yet.)

This is all I remember. We went by bus from the Philadelphia suburbs. The bus pulled over once and kids went off into the woods to go to the bathroom. This old lady (she was probably 35) squatted about 10 feet from the bus to go and had all the kids still on the bus watching her.

The Portland Pickles mascot attended an Orioles game

Pickles Pub in the first tweet is across the street from the stadium

Here he is in the stands at the 9/23/22 Orioles game – took this off my TV

More bad headlines

All three are instances of the media being reluctant to tell the truth

Only 23,514 saw Roger Maris hit #61

Only 23,154 saw Roger Maris hit his 61st home run. It was a Sunday day game at Yankee Stadium. The home run was the only run in the game. In today’s game at Yankee Stadium where Aaron Judge could (but apparently won’t) hit his 61st home run, there are more people than the seating capacity.

The 61st home run was given up by Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard. I thought it was perfect that he became a Met in 1963. A player known for being on the losing end of a great achievement belonged on the Mets who were infamous for losing 120 games the year before.

I saw the Yankees play in 1961. In the game I saw, Mickey Mantle hit a home run. He hit 54 that season.

I think Judge will break Maris’s record. In a way, it would be more impressive since two of the 10 American League teams in 1961 were bad expansion teams. Judge didn’t have the chance to face expansion teams.

Ted Cruz is a hypocrite

The North By Northwest crop duster scene was filmed on a soundstage