Larry Israelson

A man profoundly humbled that, thanks to Tom Hallman (@thallmanjr), a simple apology may be inspiring thousands of people to seek reconciliation.

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Father, forgive us for what we must do / You forgive us, we’ll forgive You / We’ll forgive each other til we both turn blue / Then we’ll whistle and go fishin in heaven

The last song I saw JP sing was Lake Marie, which ends “Aww baby, we gotta go now”

#JohnPrineRIP Aww, baby 😢

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This will likely be fixed any moment, but I imagine @jaysonst (Stark) is pretty peeved that @TheAthletic editors published his unfinished Hall of Fame recap chock full of bold-type notes regarding pending vote totals that still needed to be incorporated in the article. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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@MarkSeddon1962 @WUTangKids When I was about 10 years old (c. 1970), I read an account of the Lidice massacre, and the name of that village has been seared in my brain ever since. Up until then, as every elementary school kid ought to be, I was blissfully unaware of the existence of evil in the world.

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It’s bad enough that I’ve had to invest my own time.

I’ve given hundreds of dollars in Starbucks gift cards over the years, but facing recent losses of $115 involving 3 different cards, I’m looking for a more reliable merchant going forward.

Sincerely,
Lawrence Israelson

4/4

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@Starbucks Thanks for providing a profoundly useless customer service experience. Not for the first time, I gave gift cards to recipients who reported their “gifts” had no value when they entered the 16-digit account numbers and 8-digit PINs into their Starbucks apps. 1/4

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In essence, you’re asking me to tell my loved ones: “Happy Holidays, but if you want any coffee you’ll need to waste 45 minutes talking to a noisy ‘customer service’ boiler room somewhere in Asia, without proof of purchase, and cross your fingers they’ll make it right. 3/4

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@davidclowery Than Q!

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@Acyn Projection and utter hypocrisy at their finest. Ever since the unconscionable stonewalling of Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination (followed a few years later by the fast-tracked confirmation of Justice Barrett), the GOP’s governing strategy has been nothing but ruthless.

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@OleTimeHardball I’m usually comfortable using bWAR to settle arguments like this, but I was clearly in the Chipper camp before looking at the stats, and he’s close enough to Boggs in OBP that I’m sticking with that snap judgment. Boggs is probably under-rated, though.

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Any other @AppleNews readers getting multiple instances of 10-year-old sports content on their feeds for the past week?

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As the MLB leader in homers while playing second, Kent is a perfectly defensible Hall of Famer, but it’s NUTS that he was the only one selected from today’s ballot, and that far more well-rounded 2Bs like Whitaker and Grich are still on the outside looking in. #MLB #HallOfFame

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@davidclowery Unscientific but intuitive guess: IIRC, seats in my elementary classes were usually assigned alphabetically, with first name in the first row and to the teacher’s far left and continuing left to right, row by row. Closer to teacher equaled more engagement during formative years?

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Anybody else have trouble remembering if it’s “Bastille” by Pompeii or “Pompeii” by Bastille? 🤷🏼‍♂️ #music

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@Jimfrombaseball The first time I saw a big-league game in person was in 1974, at age 13. Details of the actual game have faded, but I distinctly remember an Angel player (reserve catcher Tom Egan?) placing an ad in the souvenir program for his insurance agency. His player salary was only $20K!

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@CodifyBaseball Vic Power!

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The fourth INCREDIBLE Dodger win of this postseason, following NLDS4 (series clinched by walk-off error in extras), NLCS1 (wild “grand slam” DP, white-knuckle finish), and NLCS4 (Ohtani does it all). #WorldSeries

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@JayCuda @jaysonst More love for those 1929 A’s: Looking to square the Series at 2-2, the Cubs led, 8-0, heading to the bottom of the 7th. Charlie Root (of Ruth’s “called shot” fame) was working on a 3-hitter, but Philly exploded for 10 runs on 10 hits against Root and three relievers to win, 10-8.

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@MikeSalvatore10 I was born in L.A. (mere weeks after Mazeroski’s homer) and I’ve lived in SoCal ever since. October 2001 was the ONLY time in my entire life that I rooted for the Yankees, or felt the least bit bad for their fans when they lost. But, I felt pretty bad for Byung-Hyun Kim, too.

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@JaysonKamoss @GarysheffieldJr 🤡 take. G1: on base three times, intentional walk in 9th loaded the bases so that ensuing walk to Betts forced in the decisive run. G2: RBI single. G3: led off game with triple, scored game’s first run. Despite slump, impacted 30% of LA scoring in those three games.

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@Jeffor1 @mackdubya My daughter and I were sitting near the right-field foul pole and couldn’t believe how far above our heads this ball was as it passed over us.