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Gambling is the Third Rail of Baseball, But…
“Without integrity, the game of baseball will cease to exist,” he said. “Without integrity, how will fans ever trust the purity of the game itself ever again? A purity built on the principle of fair play.” – Marcus Giamatti (son of A. Bartlett Giamatti – MLB Commissioner, 1989) A couple of years ago, I was… Read more
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“Pavement checking” Pies: A Six Sentence Story
Jimmy stopped by my house with a key lime pie for my family. When I thanked him for his generosity, he smiled and said that this was not the original pie he planned on dropping off. Before placing the pie in a pink box, he had to examining the bottom of the tin, but while… Read more
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Four Women & One Bird Shit
I recall watching the Mike Nichols 1971 film Carnal Knowledge in or around 1980 at the Showcase Cinema, a repertory theater in Sacramento that is now a parking lot. I remember wondering if I would ever see the kind of action the principal actors were getting. Up to that moment, I was quite the loser… Read more
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Tom’s Hook and My Short Arms: A Six Sentence Story
Tom was a soft-spoken, friendly IT analyst, and I would deliver mail and intra-agency communiques to him many times a week way back in the Nineties. Another thing about Tom is that he has a prosthesis on his right forearm. One cold morning, while walking to my favorite coffee shop, my over-sized down parka on,… Read more
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Rattle & Grunt: A Six Sentence Story
The last appointment Richard had with his previous primary physician was to talk about the results of his bone scan, but when the doctor looked at Richard’s charts, he noticed he hadn’t had a physical in over a year the next thing Richard knew he was bent over the examination table receiving a prostate exam.… Read more
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