A Sense of Doubt blog post #1988 - Baseball is back! Or is it?
I love Baseball.
I am happy it's back.
I didn't miss it as much as I thought I would.
I will not be crushed if it has to suspend play.
But it's here, so I am watching and listening as much as I am able, and I am updating my fantasy line ups.
Quick share today. Busy with work. More soon.
Enjoy these articles about the wild 2020 pandemic season.
https://sports.yahoo.com/baseball-made-it-to-opening-day-is-it-ethical-to-be-happy-its-back-021553563.html
Baseball made it to opening day. Is it ethical to be happy it's back?
A few weeks ago, a baseball executive asked me how likely I thought it was that we would make it to opening day. Which is just another way of asking how likely I thought it was that the season imploded before a single meaningful pitch was thrown.
I offered a tepid prediction premised more on how unpredictable the past six months have been than any particular insight. Frankly, I don’t even know what it would take to call off MLB’s 2020 season for good — and if my sources do, they’re not saying — but sometimes people outside baseball ask me if I think the death of someone in the game would do it.
When I think about it like that, even the speculation seems ethically ambiguous. Who has to die in order for baseball to concede 2020 to the coronavirus? Other than 143,000 people unaffiliated with the sport.
They’re playing anyway, so I have to want it to work. What does that even mean in a country where the death toll is guaranteed to keep rising? Is any of it worth the risk if we don’t bother to enjoy the baseball? That sounds trivial in comparison to the pandemic, but writing off the season as a craven money grab hurts yourself more than the owners (who won’t feel the frustration of fans refusing to buy tickets when there are none available).
Is the season’s success as suspect as its potential failure if it serves as a convenient distraction at the height of our country’s failure to contain the virus? Is even saying that an insult to the grim reality of what failure means in this context? Is it a form of delusion to focus on the role of spectator-less sports in the midst of a national crisis? To focus on the health of a single person just because he plays baseball? Is it fair to appeal to players’ sense of personal responsibility to keep their teammates and the industry afloat when our interest creates an economic incentive to put themselves at risk?
That’s an uncomfortable thought, and we’re just getting started.
Make it to opening day, we have, and now comes the hard part: A daily grind of teams congregating and trying to keep up an ambitious every-other-day testing schedule without the kind of delays that plagued summer camps, while accepting the ramifications of not testing daily. Interacting with the community — if only for food — in their hometowns and on the road. Going on the road even as states try to stem the spread between one another.
As they ramped back up to real baseball, teams have been acting with “an abundance of caution,” canceling workouts when results weren’t received in time and keeping players quarantined in accordance with local ordinances. It seems wrong on its face to think that the arbitrary designation of a game as “mattering” to the “standings” will meaningfully alter this sort of risk assessment. But of course that’s what has to happen, it’s what everyone in baseball is counting on.
The more I try to think about the big picture — bigger than who will win in a showdown between Gerrit Cole and Max Scherzer, sure, but also bigger than whether the safety protocols are sufficient to allow an industry to return to work, because even that implies that a pandemic isn’t a good reason to rethink our relationship with sports and capitalism wholesale — the more questions I have. I say “there are no good options” a lot lately. But maybe that’s a cop out. Maybe I just need to look harder.
Dr. Arthur Caplan has written a book called “The Ethics of Sport”; he’s the founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine and is a co-chair on the Mayors Advisory Panel on Sports, Recreation & Health that formed in May. When I talked to him, I expected equivocation and ambiguity.
Instead, I got cut off.
Are sports complicit in—
“Yes,” he said in no uncertain terms.
But from there, it gets more complicated.
Caplan clarified that, “I’m not in the camp that says, ‘Baseball? Who the hell cares?’
“I don’t think of baseball or any particular sports as just trivial or frosting on the cake. I see them as, I’m gonna say it, essential,” Caplan said.
And for a nation that should be cooped up at home more as a safety precaution, he considers providing entertainment to a captive audience a social service — even if it’s incidental to the actual financial motivations spurring the sport’s return.
A storm brews over Nationals Park, where MLB's shortened 2020 season is scheduled to begin on Thursday night. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“They don’t want to lose money and they’re playing to the TV contract, I get all that,” he said. “But that doesn’t bother me because I think it serves some public good.”
That public good justifies trying. Caplan just thinks baseball, frankly, should be trying a little harder.
“Trying smarter,” he said. Ethics, it seems, is not all sweeping hypotheticals. Amorality is in the details.
Caplan prefers the idea of a well-insulated “bubble” like what the NBA and the NHL are building around their athletes. He thinks leagues could use fewer tests — currently an abuse of resources that strains the ethics of MLB’s whole operation — if they stayed sequestered.
“I don’t know it can work, but I think it’s worth trying,” he said. “Anything that involves big teams traveling all over the place, particularly to COVID hot spots, I don’t think is ethical.”
In a pandemic, then, what’s right hinges on what’s sufficient for the safety of the participants. This is not to say it’s easy, but it is knowable. It’s literally science. We can choose to listen to the experts and stay critical. In fact, it’s important to do so. To not let the overwhelming nature of all the questions and competing motivations complicate the fact that we can and should interrogate the specifics.
“In sports, if you can get to the third paragraph without mentioning COVID, you’re probably not writing properly,” Caplan says. “COVID is the driver in thinking about everything these days in any sport.”
It’s a helpful perspective heading into opening day, and it’s a decent baseline from which to operate. But personally, even when centering the coronavirus in stories, I still worry about my blind spots and biases (full disclosure: my job is better when there’s baseball). I worry about the costs we haven’t considered yet and the inevitability of human error. I worry that we’ll never know if a summer without baseball would have been safer, or just stranger.
Baseball is coming back; don’t believe anyone who tells you they know what’s going to happen next. The best we can do is embrace the ambivalence.
| Tony Fauci throws out first pitch of the season |
https://sports.yahoo.com/destined-to-fail-mlb-plan-to-play-during-the-pandemic-is-simply-not-working-193205465.html?src=rss
Destined to fail? MLB's plan to play during the pandemic is simply not working
A lot has been made (including by me!) about how detailed and thorough and well-intentioned MLB’s 2020 Operations Manual is. All those diagrams and subsections and footnotes creating the impression that the series of protocols are sufficient for outthinking the coronavirus pandemic. But just because a plan is long doesn’t mean it’ll work. Not all plans are equally viable.
Here are some facts:
- For the past two-plus weeks, the MLS tournament taking place in a bubble in Orlando, Florida has registered zero positive COVID-19 cases.
- The latest weeklong batch of tests of NBA players participating in the season’s resumption at Florida’s Disney World resort also returned zero positives.
- At least 13 players and coaches on the Miami Marlins alone have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past two days.
One of these plans is not working as well as the others. The difference, at least over the past week, is whether or not there’s a so-called bubble system sequestering athletes as a way of mitigating spread from the community.
Months ago, MLB briefly considered a bubble, or multi-bubble plan, in places like Arizona and Florida where there are abundant spring training facilities (but also soaring summer temperatures and COVID cases). Players balked at being isolated from their families, and the league quickly dropped the issue entirely.
The season they eventually designed involves teams staying within their geographic region, playing exclusively against their division and the corresponding division in the other league. This certainly simplifies the travel and makes it more feasible (logistically speaking) to play 60 games in 66 days. But it isn’t any sort of concession to how contagious and dangerous COVID-19 is.
Baseball is socially distant by nature on the field, but being in a locker room, in the dugout, or on a team bus is not. The problem remains that players have plenty of opportunity to contract the coronavirus in their various home communities — especially if those happen to be in states that are experiencing unprecedented spikes — and spread it to one another at the baseball stadium or en route to a stadium in a different city.
That’s a problem for MLB. And it’s a problem for the country when you consider that those players could be spreading it to support staff and other essential workers who don’t have access to the same robust testing systems and health care.
It took only a few days of sports action outside of a bubble for exactly that scenario to start to unfold. Even if the cost from this particular outbreak is “only” a couple of games and the health of a handful of players, MLB should seriously consider whether this outcome is inherent to the plan it implemented and effectively unavoidable if it sticks by it going forward. Because people saw this coming. Playing without a bubble was a bad idea, that much was predictable.
When I interviewed Dr. Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine and a co-chair on the Mayors Advisory Panel on Sports, Recreation & Health, I was interested in big, intangible ideas like whether fans have a moral obligation to not enjoy the baseball season if it got underway. By contrast, he wanted to rail against the specifics of the plan MLB was implementing.
“I don’t even get minimally why they’re trying this travel thing,” he said with evident frustration.
And, against my rhetorical counter that canceling a season would cost jobs, “You should hope that you can keep a job and everybody understands that, but at the same time it doesn't mean you have to take the more stupid plan.”
The “more stupid plan” is the one that puts teams on planes and buses and into hotels and at restaurants all over the country, in and out of hot spots.
In an era defined by meme-ified uncertainty, some things are clear. Like whether it would be more ethical to play sports in a bubble.
“Yes,” Caplan said unequivocally.
To be fair, I do have some idea why they’re trying this travel between home stadiums thing. Baseball has a lot more people playing a lot more games on much bigger playing surfaces. Identifying one or more sites that can contain an entire baseball season for multiple teams with sufficient broadcast capabilities might be impossible.
Beyond that, life within a sport-mandated bubble sounds strange and lonely. It’s dystopian and dehumanizing to shuttle our athletes between hotels and stadiums while critically monitoring the rest of their movements for the sake of televised entertainment and billionaire team owners’ income. If athletes opt out of a season in a bubble, I wouldn’t begrudge them.
Instead of heavy surveillance and a secure campus, MLB has opted to rely on personal responsibility at every turn. In news conferences, clubhouse leaders stress the importance of unity and communication, putting their faith in the fact that their teammates understand how one guy can mess this up for everyone. After the first round of positive cases cropped up on the Marlins, the team asked veteran shortstop Miguel Rojas if they should still play the game. The commissioner retains the power to postpone games or suspend the season, but the league can’t force teams to play if they feel unsafe.
Athletes are conditioned for discipline, the reasoning goes. But they’re also conditioned to play through the pain. They’re not infectious disease experts or public health advocates, no matter how much we want this season to be justifiable as a model of best practices. Relying on personal responsibility to combat the pandemic is proven to fail.
Even if players were clamoring for a season, the onus for keeping them and the broader community safe was on the league. Maybe a bubble would have been sufficient and feasible or maybe not. But the current plan clearly isn’t.
https://sports.yahoo.com/are-local-health-officials-on-board-with-ml-bs-plan-to-play-in-home-cities-190018310.html
Are local health officials on board with MLB’s plan to play in home cities?
A few weeks ago, I emailed the public health departments for 27 cities and/or counties that have Major League Baseball stadiums within their bounds. It was shortly after MLB announced that there would be a 60-game 2020 season starting on July 23. I asked the health departments if they had any concerns about the potential impact that a baseball team — particularly one that would be traveling to games in other states — might have on the prevalence of the coronavirus in their communities.
And if there was any scenario in which they might force the local team to relocate, which is an option MLB is aware it might have to consider, or cease operations.
The pandemic has thrust public health officials into high-stress, high-stakes efforts to mitigate risk amid an ever-evolving understanding of and blatant misinformation about the coronavirus. Limiting large gatherings, largely staying home, wearing masks around anyone outside of your household and self-quarantining after travel have emerged as some of the only tools to keep people safe until a vaccine can be developed.
Even without fans — and especially if they’re eventually admitted — professional baseball inherently involves flouting those precautions. Which is, of course, why the league is implementing a detailed array of protocols that impose as much monitoring and social distancing as possible while maintaining some semblance of the sport.
Still, it seemed important to hear from the public servants who aren’t professionally obligated to prioritize baseball games. Most local health departments (15) didn’t respond at all. Many more redirected me to a different government level (city instead of county, state instead of city) and plenty of those didn’t reply either.
Cleveland said no comment. The mayor’s office in Boston has spoken to the Red Sox and is comfortable with the plans. Alameda County, which includes Oakland, suggested a couple of extremely minor, mostly just semantic, modifications to the Oakland Athletics COVID-19 Emergency Action Plan, but was otherwise “pleased to share that the A’s may resume administrative operations and on-field practice as of June 26, 2020, and games without spectators may commence after July 3, 2020.” There was no mention of games with spectators.
Cobb County felt it was “premature to comment” because the health department there “hasn’t been involved in any reopening conversations with the Braves or MLB to date.” (This was on June 25.)
Both counties that host baseball teams in Florida — where COVID-19 cases are surging following premature reopenings now being rolled back — sent along similar stock responses suggesting best practices for individuals like staying six feet away from others and regular hand washing.
Three public health officials, however, were willing to talk to me about baseball.
‘They obviously want to do the right thing’
“I have to tell you, in my normal course of business, this is a very small percentage of what I do,” said Jon Snyder, Senior Policy Adviser, Outdoor Recreation & Economic Development, of Washington state. “But in a COVID crisis, all that goes out the window and everything changes.”
The United States’ first cases and deaths from the coronavirus were reported in Washington state, while baseball’s original spring training was still underway. Prior to the league-wide suspension of play, MLB was considering relocating the Mariners’ early season series in hopes that the outbreak would remain localized. Recently, the state has seen another uptick in cases.
Snyder has seen the 101-page document (and the original 67-page version, too), and although he hasn’t spoken to anyone at the league offices, he’s in regular contact with Mariners ownership via a weekly call with Washington’s pro sports teams.
For all of them, the requirement to return established by Gov. Jay Inslee is the same: A league-wide and team-specific safety plan approved by the collective bargaining unit that represents the players in that particular sport.
“So it’s not us that’s approving it, it’s the players. It’s similar to the approach we’ve taken with construction in our state,” Snyder said.
So does that mean as long as the MLBPA is comfortable with the league’s safety plan, Snyder is, too?
“Yeah, I am.”
MLB and the Houston Astros reached out to Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of Harris County Public Health, which includes Houston, after he was quoted in an ESPN story on May 19. He hadn’t heard from anyone in baseball yet, he said at the time, but was “more than happy” to talk.
“And the good news is that they obviously want to do the right thing, not just by the game and their players and the employees involved, but they also want to do the right thing by the fans,” he told Yahoo Sports.
Harris County has the highest number of coronavirus cases in a state where the virus is surging. Texas now trails only New York and California for total cases and Gov. Greg Abbott predicted that things are only going to get worse, at least in the short term.
Shah’s team has reviewed MLB’s protocol document and approves of it, and now, “Major League Baseball needs to not just talk the talk but walk the walk.”
“What that means is that if they’re championing health and safety for the players, they also need to champion health and safety for the communities in which those teams play,” he said.
He wants baseball to be taking into account the community context, to be flexible with their plans and prepared to alter them as necessary and to be aware of the powerful optics.
“If community members can’t get tested and Major League Baseball can, well that’s a mixed message to the community,” Shah said.
If the health department tells the community to limit gathering sizes regardless of personal reasons, then sports teams shouldn’t be selling tickets to fans. That’s a mixed message. If members of the community are told to wear masks and stay six feet away from each other, baseball players should as well. Otherwise, that’s a mixed message, too.
For now, Shah approves of the protocols and says he chooses to be an optimist about how this all could play out, believing that players will position themselves as COVID-precaution role models and that the sport will ultimately be good for the psyche of the country.
And even though Harris County lacks the necessary testing capacity — and Shah had to beg the Federal Emergency Management Agency for an extension after the administration threatened to pull support for COVID-19 testing — he doesn’t begrudge the league their access to robust testing for largely healthy athletes.
“As much as the optics might be one thing, the pragmatist in me says, those aren’t going to be impacting testing here locally, because it’s obviously being sent somewhere else,” Shah said.
‘The frequency is very ambitious’
“I’ve seen it and I’ve read it and I’ve provided feedback,” said Dr. Fredrick Echols, the Director of the City of St. Louis Department of Health, about MLB’s operations manual. After reporting its largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases this week, St. Louis County is considering re-closing or reducing capacity of local businesses.
Echols’ feedback centered on the specific testing platforms that the league intended to use, whether they would be sufficiently accurate as to not create confusion from false results, and whether the league could meet its own demand.
“The frequency is very ambitious,” Echols said when we spoke. That was before summer camps had even started and the testing cadence was almost immediately disrupted by delays from the holiday weekend.
Like Shah, he acknowledged that, realistically, MLB wasn’t taking resources that would have otherwise been available to the public, but he cautioned about the logistical lift of getting results in a timely fashion.
“A situation where you have a pandemic or you have whatever communicable disease that spreads relatively easily through respiratory transmission, it’s important for individuals to know their status,” Echols said.
“We’re working with the Cardinals, to make sure we ease into baseball,” he said. “As the mayor says, we’ve got to learn how to coexist with COVID. And so that means creating a new normal.”
Even though all three officials offered tentative support for baseball attempting a season in their jurisdiction this summer, they also offered abundant cause for apprehension.
“The concern I have is in our state, and other states, we’re seeing an increased level of younger adults getting the disease,” Snyder, the Washington official, said. “And I’m worried, because there’s fewer young people who have died from it, that maybe some younger folks are taking it less seriously.”
He referenced the Orlando Pride, which had to withdraw from the NWSL’s Challenge Cup tournament recently after multiple members tested positive for COVID-19 after reportedly being out at a crowded bar.
“In public health, that’s the most difficult thing to tackle is behavior change because these behaviors have become social norms,” said Echols, the St. Louis health director.
For now, at least, fans are effectively off the table. Snyder says he’s heard hypothetical plans to increase sports attendance gradually over the rest of the year. But that makes no sense to him.
“How can you say that? How can you gaze into the crystal ball on that?” he said. “We have to be responsive to the conditions on the ground.”
Spectators at stadiums are a stipulation of Phase 4 in Washington state. Many counties are already in Phase 3, but that doesn’t mean the next step is imminent. Snyder said that they still haven’t even finalized criteria for Phase 4.
“I have no reason to expect that any part of our state will enter that Phase 4 this summer,” he said. “Talking about games with spectators with any kind of certainty right now seems very premature.”
What would it take for health officials to step in?
MLB is highly motivated to finish a season once it’s started for the sake of reaping the postseason broadcast revenue. But concern remains that local governments could make that impossible if strict stay-at-home orders are re-imposed at some point this summer or if policymakers take specific issue with sports in their jurisdiction. And so I asked each of the public health officials what, if anything, would cause them to close their city, county or state to baseball.
“One thing that would really get my attention is if we saw a super-spreader event at an outdoor sports game,” Snyder said. “We have very clearly documented incidents of outbreak events happening at food processing plants, in church, there’ve been issues in incarceration settings. If you were to add sporting activities to that list, that would really immediately get our attention.”
On the other hand, in St. Louis, Echols said “it wouldn’t necessarily, absolutely have to be connected to Cardinals.”
“But if we’re seeing a resurgence of cases in our community,” he continued, “our large venues would potentially have to shut down. We’re looking at it from a community-wide standpoint, and if we’re seeing cases continue to increase, spikes in cases, we will shut things down.”
He stipulated that any action would be discussed and cleared with the Cardinals and MLB, stressing the importance of data transparency and education — “make sure they understand the ‘why.’”
In Harris County, Shah said that, frankly, there are more significant issues jeopardizing coronavirus containment than sports leagues restarting. (Namely, that this public health crisis has become a polarizing political issue, which creates confusing messaging and alienates people.)
But that, “I am concerned about every role that every entity plays in fighting a pandemic.”
“If the trends in our community continue to move in a negative fashion, or we see an increase in cases or hospitalizations, and we wind up having to really dial things back,” Shah said, “I would say that Major League Baseball would need to take that into incredible amount of consideration as it makes its decision to continue to move forward.”
Hannah Keyser is a reporter at Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at Hannah.Keyser@yahoosports.com or reach out on Twitter at @HannahRKeyser.
https://sports.yahoo.com/after-60-hours-of-scrambling-to-handle-marlins-outbreak-will-mlb-chaos-subside-003930693.html?src=rss
After 60 hours of scrambling to handle Marlins outbreak, will MLB chaos subside?
The Miami Marlins, itinerant virus epicenter and leaders in the National League East, on Tuesday evening remained cloistered in their Philadelphia hotel rooms, the reward for being decent at baseball and for nearly half of them spitting positive.
They’d learned midday they would not be playing baseball again for at least another seven days, that news coming amid 60 hours of disorder that began with a series of jarring test results. Somewhere along their travel route — Miami to Atlanta to Philadelphia, across four or five or more days — they’d been exposed and exposed hard, this guy, then that guy, then another, and then enough of them to threaten even the fragments of a baseball season.
Separated from the world by door peepholes and the sort of news that turns every throat tickle into existential upheaval, the Marlins on Day 2 of their quarantine believed some among them might go home by Friday. The rest of the plan is by comparison wispy.
They’d sit out a week of the season or more. They’d not swung a bat or thrown a ball since Sunday afternoon and there was nothing on the schedule to get back to it. They read or slept or watched nothing on TV, heard that the Washington Nationals voted not to be near them, traded conspiracy theories with their teammates by text message, calmed family members with confidence real and feigned, and they waited.
Beyond those walls and black-out curtains, beyond their own bed-weariness and boredom, the game was trying to save itself.
It was, for another day, chaos.
Brian Cashman, general manager of the New York Yankees, who were in Washington D.C., then Philadelphia, where they did not play a game, then Baltimore, where presumably they would play a game but only after calling back their equipment truck, which had started on the road back to New York, likened the whole experience to “drinking out of a fire hose.”
The Phillies are shut down until Friday. The Marlins, of course, are done until at least next Tuesday, when they are scheduled to host … the Phillies. The Nationals will have the weekend off. Two games were postponed Monday night. On Wednesday the Toronto Blue Jays will play their first home game of the season — in Washington D.C. Their first real home game, which will be played not in Toronto but in Buffalo, is scheduled for Aug. 11, when they are to host … the Marlins.
Because the ball will find you.
The testing, outside of the Marlins, has been largely reassuring. Also, it’s been six days, and already 60 games looks unreachable for at least one team, and the easiest reporting job ever is finding a doomsaying epidemiologist, and the second-easiest is finding someone who’ll rip the baseball commissioner. The game chose 30 bubbles instead of one, which means no bubbles at all, in part because the players would not agree to one, and so this is the razor’s edge upon which they crow hop. At some point they would be out there beyond the door peepholes, and at some point someone was going to walk back in carrying more than a Gucci murse.
The thing about chaos, sometimes you can see it coming. Even prepare for it. Make plans and assign them different letters, set your jaw, commit to a single step at a time, breathe through it and tell yourself it’s temporary.
Then, holy crap, it’s everywhere.
Then there aren’t enough stadiums to go around, and not enough players to fill them anyway, and the D.C. mayor makes life a little tougher while doing her job, and dozens and dozens of players find something to gripe about, and a press release that’s supposed to tell everyone what’s going on in this minute needs MLB and union approvals, and a new set of test results are due any second, and it kind of looks like pitchers’ arms are taking a beating, and the manager of the Chicago White Sox is sick but maybe not sick-sick, and the phone never stops ringing because everyone needs to know what is going on.
The fact is, the game is day to day. That was the agreement from the start. If they were going to put 30 teams on the field most nights, then the chaos was going to come. The gaps in protocols were going to be exposed. The lapses in judgment and the randomness of the virus were going to cost at least one guy and maybe 30 and maybe 60 and one day leave them all trapped in a hotel room in Philly.
So, after a Sunday in which Marlins players themselves made the call to play baseball in spite of an apparent outbreak, and a Monday in which it became clear someone else probably should have made that call, and then a Tuesday that reinforced Monday, and in a swirl of test results and rescheduling and door-locking and finger-crossing, there could be only one lingering hope for baseball.
That is, that this is the chaos.
THE YEAR IN NUMBER: 1988
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States (NSFNET) and Europe (Nordunet) as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol, Internet Relay Chat.[1] The concept of the World Wide Web was first discussed at CERN in 1988.[2]
The Soviet Union began its major deconstructing towards a mixed economy at the beginning of 1988 and began its gradual dissolution. The Iron Curtain began to disintegrate in 1988 as Hungary began allowing freer travel to the West.[3] The first extrasolar planet, Gamma Cephei Ab (confirmed in 2002) was detected this year and the World Health Organization began its mission to eradicate polio.
In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits (11).
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1988.html
Ronald Reagan throws out pitch at Wrigley Field.
First night game at Wrigley Field 8/8/88.
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- 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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