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mightyflynn: Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me: The Minnie Minoso Story (Kickstarter) ABOUT THIS PROJECT Orestes Saturnino Armas Arietta (Minnie) Minoso … A hero to generations of baseball fans and thousands of others: Born in Cuba, he’s 89+ and going strong. Like Jackie Robinson, Minoso was a baseball pioneer as the first Black Latin American star in the major leagues. Minnie broke the color line and was the first Black to wear a uniform in Chicago in 1951. The only player ever in professional ball to play in 7 different decades, he was an 8-time All Star, and had a lifetime .298 average. He missed being elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by three votes in December, 2011. No documentary has ever been made about Minnie Minoso. He’s still sharp and active as an ambassador for the White Sox. NOW is the time to recognize his lifetime achievements.  More than a year in production, we need money now to finish the documentary. The only way Minnie’s story can be told is with your contribution. I have produced more than 500 documentary programs and have won 4 Emmy awards and many other prizes. Nobody has commissioned this one—I just know we have to finish it. I’ve been shooting videos with Minnie since 1976.  This documentary is candid, personal, and uses footage that no one else in the world could have.  

mightyflynn:

Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me: The Minnie Minoso Story

(Kickstarter)

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Orestes Saturnino Armas Arietta (Minnie) Minoso … A hero to generations of baseball fans and thousands of others:

Born in Cuba, he’s 89+ and going strong. Like Jackie Robinson, Minoso was a baseball pioneer as the first Black Latin American star in the major leagues. Minnie broke the color line and was the first Black to wear a uniform in Chicago in 1951. The only player ever in professional ball to play in 7 different decades, he was an 8-time All Star, and had a lifetime .298 average. He missed being elected to Baseball Hall of Fame by three votes in December, 2011.

No documentary has ever been made about Minnie Minoso. He’s still sharp and active as an ambassador for the White Sox. NOW is the time to recognize his lifetime achievements. 

More than a year in production, we need money now to finish the documentary. The only way Minnie’s story can be told is with your contribution.

I have produced more than 500 documentary programs and have won 4 Emmy awards and many other prizes. Nobody has commissioned this one—I just know we have to finish it. I’ve been shooting videos with Minnie since 1976.  This documentary is candid, personal, and uses footage that no one else in the world could have.  

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May 03, 2012
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Daniels | Pockets

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April 19, 2012
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Snake Plissken Informs Sallie Mae of his Refusal to Pay

I am, and was, and will be, a toxic asset.  A bad investment.  A subprime man, long past the prime of my life.

For contrary to what you claim, I owe you bastards nothing.

Let me take it word by word, chumps: “I” “owe” “you” “bastards” “nothing.”

…

I know damn well what your response will be: We are sorry to hear you are dissatisfied with your experience, Mr. Plissken.  But what about the money?  Even excluding the interest, do you think it fair that you not pay it back?  That you do not owe us the money we gave to you?  Is that fair?

So let me tell you: Yes.  Yes, it is.

Because you are not my friend.  (And for God’s sake, why would I be asked to “Like Sallie Mae” on Facebook?  The most fucked up thing is the thought that someone probably did.)

Read the entire letter, written by Evan Calder Williams.

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April 19, 2012
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Despair

I’ve had this tab open in my browser all day and night: ‘Soria leaves game with sore elbow after another poor outing.’ I haven’t read it. I may never read it.

As a Royals fan, I know Despair. He appears on the horizon in April, and he climbs up the front steps in May. In June, he’s settled into his place on the porch swing, chewing on a long shoot of straw and spitting in the bushes. By July, he knows his way into the kitchen and helps himself to beer and a slice. Sometime in August, I’ll awake to find that a strange bedfellow has stolen all the extra pillows. And September? Well, some things are better left unsaid.

My favorite player — the only favorite player I’ve had since I was a boy — has a torn meniscus and is likely out ‘til July.

With the guts of a burglar, Despair is climbing in my bedroom window while I sleep.

It’s only March.

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March 19, 2012
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nevver: Super Punch

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Super Punch

February 23, 2012
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The Kid. via @si_vault

The Kid.

via @si_vault

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February 16, 2012
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Robo Jima by Alexander Rosenbaum (via @newinquiry)

Robo Jima by Alexander Rosenbaum (via @newinquiry)

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February 16, 2012
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January 26, 2012
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summeranne: Every Hall of Famer covers Mr. Cub / Mr. Sunshine today and I love this guy and am proud of this drawing. “You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.” -Ernie Banks I love how the light appears to strike his face as though the sun just peeked out from behind a Chicago summertime cloud. I was feeling listless tonight — missing baseball, yearning for people and places I’ve never seen, pining for wisdom or ignorance or the absurd certainty of any old raison d’etre, missing baseball — when Mr. Cub reminded me of what I already knew, namely: “Existence, life, intelligence, and consciousness are miraculous gifts that we are designed not to appreciate, but are able to with effort.”

summeranne:

Every Hall of Famer covers Mr. Cub / Mr. Sunshine today and I love this guy and am proud of this drawing.

“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.” -Ernie Banks

I love how the light appears to strike his face as though the sun just peeked out from behind a Chicago summertime cloud.

I was feeling listless tonight — missing baseball, yearning for people and places I’ve never seen, pining for wisdom or ignorance or the absurd certainty of any old raison d’etre, missing baseball — when Mr. Cub reminded me of what I already knew, namely: “Existence, life, intelligence, and consciousness are miraculous gifts that we are designed not to appreciate, but are able to with effort.”

January 24, 2012
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Neil Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web

“Places where I was being pirated […] I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. And then they were going out and buying the real books”

“Nobody who would’ve bought your book is not buying it because they can find it for free. What you’re actually doing is advertising, you’re reaching more people, you’re raising awareness.”

Have I said how much I love him?

Neil Gaiman is a better person than. Period.

My first introduction to Neil Gaiman was through a housemate lending me Anansi Boys. If it wasn’t for that free copy I may not have discovered his work for years longer if at all.

Since then I’ve bought numerous copies of his novels and graphic novels both for myself and as presents for friends.

This is what people misunderstand about online piracy. You’re not losing sales. It’s not a physical thing that can only be owned by one person. You’re enabling people to discover you work, people who may otherwise never have found you. This is free advertising, social advertising, and it is GOLD.

These are the people who will become your fans, your evangelists, who will help to sell your work to their friends and their friends’ friends. They will buy attend conventions, signings and gigs, buy merchandise and create their own.

“Online piracy” of this sort isn’t about stealing work, it’s about sharing it. 

Oceans of received wisdom are no longer germane to our new political, economic, & organizational realities. As with sundry other problems, resolution will come from both education, and that indiscriminate, industrious agent of change, death. If we focus on the former, in time, the latter will take care of the rest.

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January 20, 2012
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"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

— Voltaire (via philphys)

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January 19, 2012
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Today is the 55th birthday of Royals single-season home run record holder (*cough*36*cough*Butler*retch*Hosmer*gag*ANY-freaking-BODY) Steve “Bye Bye” Balboni. In tribute to the man who many I have (just now) called both The Lumpy Lubber, and The Clumpy Clubber, I dust off this gem of a webisode from the splendid series Back on Topps. Along with The Brethren Sklar, this installment features such notables as: Jackie Chiles as Bleisner (black Michael Eisner), Ed Helms as Salboni (Sal Balboni), and Chocolate Gandhi.

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January 16, 2012
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oldtimefamilybaseball: The Blogathon begins! Cups of Coffee: 1  Mental Status: Sane Fear of Internet Outage: Crazy We’ve already raised close to $400 towards our goal of $2,000 and the blogathon is just beginning. If you haven’t donated yet, please do, and if you have, please spread the word to anyone who may care to listen. I don’t often ask for reblogs/retweets/etc, but today as we work towards raising money for Doctors Without Borders, I ask you to please share the content you enjoy. See you in a half hour. - Mike

oldtimefamilybaseball:

The Blogathon begins!

Cups of Coffee: 1 

Mental Status: Sane

Fear of Internet Outage: Crazy

We’ve already raised close to $400 towards our goal of $2,000 and the blogathon is just beginning. If you haven’t donated yet, please do, and if you have, please spread the word to anyone who may care to listen.

I don’t often ask for reblogs/retweets/etc, but today as we work towards raising money for Doctors Without Borders, I ask you to please share the content you enjoy.

See you in a half hour.

- Mike

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January 14, 2012
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maxistentialist:

Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living) by The Eels

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December 20, 2011
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darklittlerooms: Congrats to Ron Santo’s family…overdue to say the least.

darklittlerooms:

Congrats to Ron Santo’s family…overdue to say the least.

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December 05, 2011
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