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Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1864 - Today would have been Baseball's OPENING DAY for 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1864 - Today would have been Baseball's OPENING DAY for 2020

Baseball would have begun today.

All but one of my leagues, including the two I run, have postponed drafting teams.

All sports have suspended games and all activities due to Novel Coronavirus.

A lot of people will not consider the loss of our national sports to be a major issue, something to lament.

I have to agree that given the health concerns for the nation, especially its health care workers, let alone those who are continuing to work at the grocery stores so I can go buy food once a week.

I thought I would be sadder. I usually really miss sports when the seasons end, especially Baseball (as you can see by my links below in which I say goodbye to seasons and hello as seasons begin).

But I am okay. The world is complex and interesting, especially during a pandemic. I have plenty to do, to think about, to write about. Sports is not a priority at all in times like this.

And yet, I do like sports, especially Baseball.

I am still watching some ESPN, especially Sportscenter, because I figure that they need the support. I mean, they don't have a lot to report on.

So, BASEBALL would have started its season today. And I am glad that it didn't. We all need to stay safe, and though I love Baseball (that's why I capitalize it), but it's hardly an essential service.

Baseball, I can wait for you, until we're ready to have it in total safety.

Until then, here's some Baseball content: images I love, links to most of my other Baseball blog entries, two classic games from my favorite teams -- the 1984 Detroit Tigers and the 2016 Chicago Cubs -- and then a long list of great games for every team in the MLB.

AND, in other good news, both the NBA and the MLB have paused my subscriptions while the sports are suspended, which is a kindness.

We also need more kindness in these times.

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2017/04/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-642.html

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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1035 - Kerry Wood Strikes Out 20 - May 6, 1998
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1051 - Happy Birthday Willie Mays
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1074 - Best and Worst Seasons - Trout - Davis
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1254 - 1984 Tigers in the Hall - Trammell and Morris elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1347 - Goodbye Baseball; See You Next Year
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1498 - Welcome Back Baseball - 2019 - I need you
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1510 - Verlander - Finest Inning Ever Pitched
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1602 - Baseball's Big Data is Over?

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1179 (SoD #1627) - SPACE THRILLERS - Throwback Thursday on Sunday 1908.04
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1684 - Three Things About Baseball - game length, playoff rank, and Goodbye
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1690 - The End of Fantasy Baseball Season - 2019

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https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2017/02/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-590-cubs.html

https://www.mlb.com/news/classic-mlb-games-to-watch-online

ONE classic game to watch online for each team

By Sarah Langs, Andrew Simon, Manny Randhawa and Jason Catania @AndrewSimonMLB and @MannyOnMLB and @JayCat11 and @SlangsOnSports

March 14, 2020

With no live baseball games currently on TV, you can always fill the void by streaming a classic game from your favorite team’s past. The MLB Vault account on YouTube has numerous games, and the MLB account has a bunch more, too.

Here's one memorable game for each team that can be watched online, for free, in its entirety:

AL EAST

BLUE JAYS: Joe Carter's World Series-winning walk-off home run
Oct. 23, 1993 (World Series Game 6)
With the Blue Jays down a run in the bottom of the ninth, the slugger slashed a three-run shot for Toronto's second straight title. As a bonus, it was just the second Fall Classic-ending homer in history after Bill Mazeroski's winner for the Pirates in Game 7 of the 1960 Series.

ORIOLES: Cal Ripken Jr. becomes baseball's new "Iron Man"
Sept. 6, 1995
Not only did Ripken break "Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig's longstanding streak with his 2,131st straight game, the O's icon also put an exclamation point on history by homering in the contest. Once the game became official following the top of the fifth inning, the crowd coaxed Ripken out of the dugout for multiple curtain calls -- and eventually a victory lap around Camden Yards.

RAYS: Rays knock off Red Sox to reach World Series
Oct. 19, 2008 (ALCS Game 7)
With 2007 No. 1 overall Draft pick David Price recording the final four outs for the save, the Rays toppled the reigning champ Red Sox to punch their first Fall Classic ticket in franchise history.

RED SOX: Red Sox break the Curse of the Bambino
Oct. 27, 2004 (World Series Game 4)
"Back to Foulke. Red Sox fans have longed to hear it: The Boston Red Sox are world champions." For the first time in 86 years. They wouldn't have to wait quite as long for their next title.

YANKEES: Derek Jeter walks it off in his final game at Yankee Stadium
Sept. 25, 2014
"Well, the script is there. The last page is in Derek's hands." Jeter proceeded to waste no time, lacing the first pitch he saw in the ninth inning for a signature opposite-field single to drive in the winning run from second base for his chills-inducing final at-bat at Yankee Stadium. "Did you have any doubt?" No.

AL CENTRAL

INDIANS: The streak continues
Sept. 14, 2017
The Indians started winning on Aug. 24 and just couldn't stop. On Sept. 14, it looked like it might finally come to an end, as they headed to the bottom of the ninth down a run. But they tied it on a Francisco Lindor double, and then Jay Bruce hit a walk-off double in the 10th to send the streak to 22 straight. It'd end the next day there, as the second-longest streak in MLB history.

ROYALS: First World Series title
Oct. 27, 1985 (World Series Game 7)
The Royals had trailed the series three games to one to the Cardinals entering Game 5, but rallied to win three straight games to clinch the first title in franchise history. Game 7 didn't have much drama, especially once the Royals scored six runs in the fifth, but there was plenty to celebrate.

TIGERS: Fourth World Series title
Oct. 14, 1984 (World Series Game 5)
The Tigers defeated the Padres to win their fourth World Series in franchise history and first since 1968.

TWINS: The Jack Morris game
Oct. 27, 1991 (World Series Game 7)
In a winner-take-all Game 7, Jack Morris came out for the first inning for the Twins and stayed in the entire game, pitching 10 shutout innings on the biggest stage. The Twins won it, 1-0, in the bottom of the 10th on a Gene Larkin single.

WHITE SOX: Drought quenched
Oct. 26, 2005 (World Series Game 4)
The White Sox won Game 4 to clinch a World Series sweep, but the final game was a tight one. Chicago won, 1-0, thanks to a Jermaine Dye RBI single and scoreless outings from Freddy Garcia, Cliff Politte, Neal Cotts and Bobby Jenks.

AL WEST

A's: 1989 World Series Game 3
Oct. 27, 1989 (World Series Game 3)
The Battle of the Bay Area resumes 10 days after a severe earthquake struck the area. The A's, who already had won the first two games, pound Giants pitching and get another strong performance from Dave Stewart to set up their sweep the next day.

ANGELS: Halos win it all
Oct. 27, 2002 (World Series Game 7)
The Angels were on the brink of elimination in Game 6 before an eighth-inning comeback. Then, in Game 7, a three-run double from Garret Anderson in the third inning put the Angels ahead, 4-1, for good, as the team won its first World Series.

ASTROS: Astros move on after marathon win
Oct. 9, 2005 (NLDS Game 4)
A year after losing the NLCS to the Cardinals, the Astros clinched another LCS trip with an 18-inning win over the Braves in NLDS Game 4. They tied it in the ninth on a Brad Ausmus two-out home run, then won it in the 18th on Chris Burke's walk-off homer.

MARINERS: The Double
Oct. 8, 1995 (ALDS Game 5)
The Mariners complete a comeback from a 2-0 series deficit at a raucous Kingdome, as Edgar Martinez scores Ken Griffey Jr. and walks off the Yankees in the 11th inning, and perhaps, helps save baseball in Seattle.

RANGERS: Ryan's 7th no-hitter
May 1, 1991
A 44-year-old Nolan Ryan becomes the oldest pitcher to throw a no-hitter AND extends his own record for most no-nos.

NL EAST

BRAVES: The Team of the 90's
Oct. 28, 1995 (World Series Game 6)
The Braves had lost the 1991 and 1992 World Series, then lost in the NLDS in 1993. But in 1995, they wouldn't be denied, clinching the team's first championship since 1957, when they won as the Milwaukee Braves, in a far different era.

MARLINS: First World Series title
Oct. 26, 1997 (World Series Game 7)
In just their fifth year of existence and first postseason appearance, the Marlins won the World Series in extras in a winner-take-all game. Edgar Renteria's walk-off single in the 11th inning sealed the deal.

METS: Gets by Buckner
Oct. 25, 1986 (World Series Game 6)
The Mets won World Series Game 6, facing elimination, after Mookie Wilson's famous at-bat when the ball gets by Bill Buckner. The Mets would go on to win Game 7, too, to clinch the title.

NATIONALS: Scherzer's 2nd no-hitter
Oct. 3, 2015 (2nd game of doubleheader)
In the second game of a doubleheader on a brisk day and night in Flushing, Max Scherzer tossed his second no-hitter of the 2015 season, striking out 17 Mets batters and allowing just one baserunner, on an error.

PHILLIES: Win it all for the first time
Oct. 21, 1980 (World Series Game 6)
In the franchise's third World Series appearance, the team won Game 6 at home to clinch its first title -- as Tug McGraw did his iconic celebration.

NL CENTRAL

BREWERS: Juan Nieves' no-hitter
April 15, 1987

Juan Nieves throws the first no-no in Brewers history, aided by Robin Yount's incredible catch of an Eddie Murray line drive.

CARDINALS: The David Freese Game
Oct. 27, 2011 (World Series Game 6)
In one of the wildest games in World Series history, local kid David Freese ensures that he will be a hero in St. Louis forever.

CUBS: Finally win it all again
Nov. 2, 2016 (World Series Game 7)
The Cubs win Game 7 of the World Series in extra innings on the road to clinch the team's first World Series title since 1908, in a series they trailed three games to one entering Game 5.

PIRATES: Game 7 win
Oct. 17, 1971 (World Series Game 7)
Steve Blass throws a complete game, and Roberto Clemente homers, as the Pirates beat the favored Orioles.

REDS: Win 1990 World Series over heavily-favored A's
Oct. 20, 1990 (World Series Game 4)
Cincinnati stuns the powerhouse A's, who were playing in their third straight World Series, completing the sweep in Oakland for its first world championship since 1976.

NL WEST

DODGERS: Gibson's homer
Oct. 15, 1988 (World Series Game 1)
Take it from two of the greatest broadcasters of all time: "I don't believe what I just saw," Jack Buck said. "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened," said Vin Scully. One of the greatest -- and most improbable -- home runs in baseball history, as a hobbled Kirk Gibson homered off Dennis Eckersley in walk-off fashion.

D-BACKS: Gonzalez's title-clincher
Nov. 4, 2001 (World Series Game 7)
Luis Gonzalez provided the late-inning heroics against future Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, knocking a walk-off single after Tony Womack had tied the game with a double earlier in the ninth inning. With that, the D-backs won the World Series in just their fourth season of existence.

GIANTS: 2014 World Series Game 7
Oct. 30, 2014 (World Series Game 7)
The Giants won Game 7 on the road to clinch the team's third World Series title in five years, as Madison Bumgarner pitched the final five innings to notch a rare and particularly clutch save.

PADRES: 1984 NLCS Game 5
Oct. 7, 1984 (NLCS Game 5)
Padres wrap up their first postseason series by completing a comeback from a 2-0 deficit. Falling behind 3-0 in the game, they storm back for six runs in the sixth and seventh innings, highlighted by Tony Gwynn's go-ahead two-run double off Rick Sutcliffe.

ROCKIES: Ubaldo's no-no
April 17, 2010
In an April game at Turner Field, Ubaldo Jiménez threw the first, and to this point only, no-hitter in Rockies history, throwing 128 pitches. He went on to finish third in Cy Young voting that season, and was an All-Star, too.

Andrew Simon is a research analyst for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AndrewSimonMLB.

Manny Randhawa is a reporter for MLB.com based in Denver. Follow him on Twitter at @MannyOnMLB.

Jason Catania is a reporter and editor for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @JayCat11.

Sarah Langs is a reporter/editor for MLB.com based in New York. Follow her on Twitter @SlangsOnSports.

A letter from the Commissioner to baseball fans on #OpeningDayAtHome. pic.twitter.com/3CEJwDFSIO
— MLB (@MLB) March 26, 2020

Dear Baseball Fans,

Opening Day holds an important place in our hearts. It signifies the arrival of spring, the promise of new beginnings, the return of following your favorite team on a long journey filled with twists and turns, and the hope that your team will put together a magical season you will remember forever.

Today is unlike any Opening Day in Major League Baseball’s long history. We need to call on the optimism that is synonymous with Opening Day and the unflinching determination required to navigate an entire baseball season to help us through the challenging situation currently facing us all.

• #OpeningDayAtHome

We can do this together by following the direction of our public health experts and government officials to collectively address this global pandemic. Baseball will return, just as soon as it’s safe to do so. You can find helpful information at MLB.com/covid19resources.

I’m proud of how the baseball community has rallied to respond to this unprecedented challenge. In a short period of time under difficult and rapidly changing circumstances, we have met the needs of Minor League players by creating a level of uniform compensation for them, made a $1 million joint donation with the MLBPA to Feeding America and Meals on Wheels America, and our Clubs have committed $30 million to ballpark employees. In addition, we will be shining a light on worthy charities that are involved with the COVID-19 response. If you are able to help, you can make contributions to these organizations at MLB.com/give.

While we aren’t on the field today, there still will be plenty of baseball for you to watch. In addition to programming on MLB Network, ESPN2, and FS1, we have made thousands of games available for free to you through MLB.TV, MLB.com, and MLB’s YouTube accounts. We also are hosting Opening Day at Home, a selection of 30 memorable games, one for each Club, that you can enjoy today across MLB’s digital platforms. While we wait for players to take the field, I hope this brings us together as fans and engages us in conversation through social media.

Throughout our history, baseball has helped us get through difficult times. Baseball will continue to be here for you as we face these challenges together as a community and we look forward to when we can safely get back on the field and hear the words, “Play Ball.”

Stay Safe and Healthy,

Rob

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2003.26 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1727 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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I am Christopher Tower the gmr

I am Christopher Tower (or Chris), and I am a writer of stuff. I grew up in Michigan; I now live in the Portland, OR metro area. I play Ultimate, ride a bike, and supposedly educate college persons while myself being educated in college. I am married with two kids, a beagle, a curly lab, and a fiesty pug/frenche mix. I like sushi. I love all SF, fantasy, comic books, D&D, board games, and Gnosticism. I am a Jungian. I am currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University.

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

Hey, Mom! The Explanation.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1864 - Today would have been Baseball's OPENING DAY for 2020

ONE classic game to watch online for each team

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