Random News and Notes 6 September
We kick off this Saturday edition of RNN with a couple of baseball notes.
World Series winning Mets manager Davey Johnson has died. Johnson skippered the Amazin’s from 84 to 90 and led the team to their 86 World Series Championship. The 4 time MLB All-star won two World Series as a player, both with the Baltimore Orioles. He was a 3 time Gold Glove 2nd baseman and hit a career .261 with 136 homers and 609 RBI in his 12 years in the Majors.
He amassed a 1,372–1,071 record in his 17 years as a manager. Besides the Mets, he managed the Orioles, the Reds, Dodgers and Nats. He won Manager of the Year honors with the Orioles and the Nats. He also skippered in international play. He won the Bronze medal as manager for the US team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic. He won a gold at the World Baseball Cup in 2007.
Davey Johnson was 82.
Requiescat in Pace.
Our other baseball note combines a few of my favorite things; baseball, Dads being dads, making fun of Karens and happy endings. A man retrieved a home run at a Marlins/Phillies game at LoanDepot park, the Marlins facility in Miami and gave it to his son. That’s a dad being a dad and making memories with his kids. A Karen decided that she had called dibs on the ball and accosted the father and berated him until he gave her the ball. Watch:
I’m going to digress for a sec here and lay down some ballpark etiquette for anyone who does not go to the ballpark. Adults have one shot at catching a foul/home run ball. If they drop it or in any way muff the catch they have no claim on said ball. Once that ball hits the floor – or the seats/bleachers – it’s fair game for anyone close enough to grab it. However, if an adult grabs a ball off the floor/seats the proper move is to give it to a kid If there is one close by. Or as in this instance, your own kid. Karen, who got booed so badly she left the game shortly after stealing the ball from a kid, had no claim to that ball whatsoever.
Now on to the happy ending. The Marlins PR people brought the kid a package that included a couple of game balls, a bobblehead, some Marlins merch and got him some face time with Harrison Bader, the player who hit the Homer.
It also seems the family is going to the World Series courtesy of Marcus Lemonis, the owner of Camping World. H/T WhyNot
I told you about Venezuelan aircraft buzzing a Navy ship in the Caribbean yesterday. Well there is an update. The President has given the Navy the green light to shoot down any VZ aircraft it deems a threat.
I would bet that Maduro’s pilots just browned their trousers.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is going to get deported. There is no question about that. It’s just a matter of when and where. His attorneys filed paperwork indicating that he would fear for his life in a bunch of African countries including Uganda, where the administration indicated he was going to go. One country that he did not include is now his proposed destination: Eswatini. You may remember it as Swaziland, they changed their name a few years back on the anniversary of some BS.
. . . says is “hard to take seriously”.
You’ll be glad to know that Eswatini has the 12th lowest life expectancy in the world at 58 and the highest rate of AIDS infection. Abrego Garcia might not be glad to know those facts though.
