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The Best Hose for Avid Gardeners - 60% OFF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Townsend)
Wed Jul 21 12:36:16 2021
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:24:04 -0400
From: "Joel Townsend" <joel-townsend@strikepike2.club>
To: <linuxch-announce.discuss@charon.mit.edu>
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** WISH THERE WAS MORE ROOM IN YOUR SHED? **
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The Magic Garden Hose shrinks and expands: no more kinks and leaks! It shri=
nks to 1/3 its length(a 25 ft. hose shrinks to 8. 3 feet), making storage =
easy. No more messy unraveling or having a tangled mess in your shed. Th=
e =C2=BE brass connectors and double latex material can stand up to 12 bars=
of water pressure. That is roughly the working water pressure of a fire h=
ose. The hose's special FLEX technology makes it easy to store and imposs=
ible to kink. The hose rotates, stretches and adapts for easy use.=20
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<p class=3D"paywall"><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">The next year, I mov=
ed from New York to New England, and it made all the difference. For in Sep=
tember of 1957, in the same situation, the story was reversed. Mantle final=
ly hit .365; it was the best season of his career. But Williams, though sic=
k and old, had run away from him. A bout of flu had laid him low in Septemb=
er. He emerged from his cave in the Hotel Somerset haggard but irresistible=
; he hit four successive pinch-hit home runs. ?I feel terrible,? he confess=
ed, ?but every time I take a swing at the ball it goes out of the park.? He=
ended the season with thirty-eight home runs and an average of .388, the h=
ighest in either league since his own .406, and, coming from a decrepit man=
of thirty-nine, an even more supernal figure. With eight or so of the ?leg=
hits? that a younger man would have beaten out, it would have been .400. A=
nd the next year, Williams, who in 1949 and 1953 had lost batting champions=
hips by decimal whiskers to George Kell and Mickey Vernon, sneaked in behin=
d his teammate Pete Runnels and filched his sixth title, a bargain at .328.=
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<p class=3D"paywall"><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">In 1959, it seemed=
all over. The dinosaur thrashed around in the .200 swamp for the first hal=
f of the season, and was even benched (?rested,? Manager Mike Higgins tactf=
ully said). Old foes like the late Bill Cunningham began to offer batting t=
ips. Cunningham thought Williams was jiggling his elbows; in truth, William=
s' neck was so stiff he could hardly turn his head to look at the pitcher. =
When he swung, it looked like a Calder mobile with one thread cut; it remin=
ded you that since 1953 Williams' shoulders had been wired together. A soli=
citous pall settled over the sports pages. In the two decades since William=
s had come to Boston, his status had imperceptibly shifted from that of a n=
aughty prodigy to that of a municipal monument. As his shadow in the record=
books lengthened, the Red Sox teams around him declined, and the entire Am=
erican League seemed to be losing life and color to the National. The incon=
sistency of the new superstars?Mantle, Colavito, and Kaline?served to make =
Williams appear all the more singular. And off the field, his private phila=
nthropy?in particular, his zealous chairmanship of the Jimmy Fund, a charit=
y for children with cancer?gave him a civic presence somewhat like that of =
Richard Cardinal Cushing. In religion, Williams appears to be a humanist, a=
nd a selective one at that, but he and the Cardinal, when their good works =
intersect and they appear in the public eye together, make a handsome and h=
eartening pair.</span></p>=20
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<p class=3D"paywall"><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Humiliated by his =
'59 season, Williams determined, once more, to come back. I, as a specimen =
Williams partisan, was both glad and fearful. All baseball fans believe in =
miracles; the question is, how <em>many</em> do you believe in? H=
e looked like a ghost in spring training. Manager Jurges warned us ahead of=
time that if Williams didn't come through he would be benched, just like a=
nybody else. As it turned out, it was Jurges who was benched. Williams ente=
red the 1960 season needing eight home runs to have a lifetime total of 500=
; after one time at bat in Washington, he needed seven. For a stretch, he w=
as hitting a home run every second game that he played. He passed Lou Gehri=
g's lifetime total, then the number 500, then Mel Ott's total, and finished=
with 521, thirteen behind Jimmy Foxx, who alone stands between Williams an=
d Babe Ruth's unapproachable 714. The summer was a statistician's picnic. H=
is two-thousandth walk came and went, his eighteen-hundredth run batted in,=
his sixteenth All-Star Game. At one point, he hit a home run off a pitcher=
, Don Lee, off whose father, Thornton Lee, he had hit a home run a generati=
on before. The only comparable season for a forty-two-year-old man was Ty C=
obb's in 1928. Cobb batted .323 and hit one homer. Williams batted .316 but=
hit twenty-nine homers.</span></p>=20
<p class=3D"paywall"><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">In sum, though gen=
erally<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.strikepike2.club/Lattimer-overtly/7565BB2395Ezz8612o3ed8mYQ7a7Q40Chbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47qQcommm7i1JZCD05SXsvT"> conceded to be the =
greatest hitter of his era, he did not establish himself as ?the greatest h=
itter who eve</a>r lived.? Cobb, for average, and Ruth, for power, remain s=
upreme. Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Jackson, and Lefty O'Doul, among players =
since 1900, have higher lifetime averages than Williams' .344. Unlike Foxx,=
Gehrig, Hack Wilson, Hank Greenberg, and Ralph Kiner, Williams never came =
close to matching Babe Ruth's season home-run total of sixty. In the list o=
f major-leagu<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.strikepike2.club/Lattimer-overtly/ef46Q2k3p95f86xu10G3ed9z7a7n40rhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47iQcommm7RxNWN106JU3sBv">e batting rec=
ords, not one is held by Williams. He is second in walks drawn, third in ho=
me runs, fifth in lifetime averages, sixth in runs batted in, eighth in run=
s scored and in total bases, fourteenth in d</a>oubles, and thirtieth in hi=
ts. But if we allow him merely average seasons for the four-plus seasons he=
lost to two wars, and add another season for the months he lost to injurie=
s, we get a man who in all the power totals would be second, and not a very=
distant second, to Ruth. And if we further allow that these years would ha=
ve been not merely average but prime years, if we allow for all the months =
when Williams was playing in sub-par condition, if we permit his early and =
later years in baseball to b<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.strikepike2.club/shuttled-humbled/24c6Gn239z5zB86Y11oU3edaT7a7R40ehbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47sQcommm6e10RKN6QN@1sv=
">e some sort of index of what the middle years could have been, if we give=
him a right-field fence that is not, like Fenway's, one of the most distan=
t in the league, and if?the least excusable ?if??we</a> imagine him condesc=
ending to outsmart the Williams Shift, we can defensibly assemble, like a c=
olossus induced from the sizable fragments that do remain, a statistical fi=
gure not incommensurate with his grandiose ambition. From the statistics th=
at are on the books, a good case can be made that in the <em>combinati=
on</em> of power and average Williams is first; nobody else ranks so h=
igh in both categories. Finally, there is the witness of the eyes; men whos=
e memories go back to Shoe<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.strikepike2.club/geology-assimilates/d8c6q2J3T95c8Th610G3edbV7a7K40Shbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47CQcommm6J10lSl5fMsXv">=
less Joe Jackson?another unlucky natural?rank him and Williams together as =
the best-looking hitters they</a> have seen. It was for our last look that =
ten thousand of us had come.</span></p>=20
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