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On Street 32 Yrs, Sell Side (I.I. ranked 6 yrs) & Buy Side, 7 Yrs @ Global Macro Shops, Brobdingnagian BASE trade marked, Charts = Life, baseball, too - J Roque

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

The '62 Impala is still around, but this is a new logo...

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Baseball’s the best

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

WVU walks it off & has the entire stadium singing Country Roads

Chills

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Baseball’s the best. Look at those resplendent ChiSox uniforms. And Wotta day for Lamar Johnson — 1977 was a good year for him.

[Matthew Nichol @MatthewNichol5]

Back when Chicago was great. The White Sox Lamar Johnson sings the National Anthem hits 2 home runs and gets the Sox only three hits in the game beating the A's 2-1 on June 19, 1977. On another note, let's make Illinois great again and flip it red.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Baseball’s the best

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If you look closely you’ll see the older gentleman with a green fedora is none other than Smokey Joe Wood! He’s sitting next to Roger Angell who wrote on baseball for The New Yorker. This is a fantastic piece of baseball history. Thank you.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Hi Vic - thanks for the kind words. I think Posada was super. The Yanks have missed him since he retired. I think if he had 2000 career hits he’d be in the HOF.

[Cane 4 Life @Canefan4lfe]

@daChartLife what are your thoughts John. Btw u were great on George’s call

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Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson?

[js9innings @js9inningsmedia]

Pete Crow-Armstrong to the Chicago White Sox fan: “suck my f**kin d**k b**ch”

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@margo19aa Trying to get back to the show. Thanks

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@MetroNorth - thought you might like to read this.

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Beautiful comments. Thanks @Jimfrombaseball
Felipe spent a little time with the Yanks at the end of his career. Very good hitter. Thank you.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"I think that trading Felipe Alou was one of the biggest mistakes the Giants ever made."
Juan Marichal.
"Felipe Alou is the kind of man you hope your kid will grow up to be."
Gene Oliver.
In 1966, Felipe Alou would lead National League in Hits (218) and Runs Scored (122). He would also set personal bests with 31 home runs, hit .327 and a .533 slugging
average.
Fifth place finish in MVP voting.
In 1968, led National League in Hits with 210.
"My father never came to the States to see me play.
Only time he was off the island was when I took him to Caracas for interleague play . My Dad flew home the 2nd day because he was afraid three or four cows he'd left with a neighbor, weren't being tended properly." Felipe Rojas Alou.
Their family name in the Dominican Republic is Rojas, but Felipe Alou and his brothers became known by the name “Alou”, when the Giants’ scout who signed Felipe, mixed up his name with Felipe’s maternal side family name.
"I love Felipe Alou.
Felipe is a treasure in my country, in the game of baseball, and, most important, in my heart.
Felipe paved the way.
For those of us who followed him from our small island to the big leagues, Felipe was the light at the end of the tunnel.’"
"El Grande"
In my HOF!!!!

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@AugieNash Wonderful story here. Thanks for sharing. Butch and Pete Sheehy of the Yankees were two of a kind! Baseball’s the best.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@RegionalTVCat - thanks, Jim. We were really lucky. First year in Little League we had wool uniforms. They were really warm in early April, protected you when sliding, and hotter than heck in June! Was the time of our lives. Baseball’s the best.

[Jim Hayes @RegionalTVCat]

Youth baseball 50 years ago: you got a cap and a tee shirt. The toughskin jeans came straight from Sears and you had to provide those yourself.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@Jimfrombaseball - thanks for this! I laughed out loud - again! Baseball’s the best.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"What do Michael Jackson and Steve Sax have in common?
They each wear a glove on one hand for no apparent reason."
Johnny Carson.
The Dodgers Pedro Guerrero committed several hard-to-believe fielding errors during one game.
At the same time Dodgers' 2nd baseman Steve Sax was undergoing his horrendous fielding slump in which he couldn't throw the most routine ball to first without trouble.
Tommy Lasorda decided it was time for one of his famous motivational meetings and zeroed in on Pedro Guerrero.
In the post-game meeting, Mgr. Tommy Lasorda was at a loss with Guerrero. Lasorda: "Pedro, suppose your playing 3rd, the bases are loaded.
What are you thinking about next hitter?"
Pedro: "Two things."
Lasorda: "What's the first thing?"
Pedro, "I'm thinking 'God, Don't hit it to me'".
Lasorda: "Come on, what else are you thinking?"
Pedro, "I'm thinking 'Don't hit it to Saxxy either.'"

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Yo, Charts —

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Hi Thierry - I'm talking about it. Right there with you. Thanks a lot for this.

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

WHAT IF the biggest bubble of our lifetime isn't crypto?

Not AI stocks.
Not real estate.

What if it's the one asset every pension fund, every retiree, every "safe" portfolio is loaded with?

Bonds.

200 years of rate cycles say the same thing:
Every peak lasts 56–67 years.
The 1981 top was 14% yields.
The 2020 bottom was 0%.

39 years of falling rates just ended.

What if we're now at the start of the next 50-year cycle — upward?

Most investors have never managed money in a rising rate world.
Their entire career happened inside the bull.

The unwind has barely started.
And no one is talking about it.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Baseball’s the best

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Baseball’s the best

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Here’s an awesome video of a bunch of kids from New York City sharing their thoughts on the New York Yankees releasing The Great Bambino, Babe Ruth.

Crazy to think these lads are like 8-12 years old and they probably could kick my ass without breaking a sweat. The year is 1935x.

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

Baseball’s the best

[Baseball King @BasebaIlKing]

The Phillies made a hype video for their ballboy and it is the greatest thing ever 👏

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@ImtiazMadmood Another good one - thanks
It’s a full on game of RISK

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

@ImtiazMadmood Fingers crossed. Thanks

[da Chart Life @daChartLife]

“…Weak men make hard times.” (G Michael Hopf)

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”

-Teddy Roosevelt