maybe this is futuristic nostalgia…. my need for a scratchy record, a cassette tape unraveling, and bad calls by umpires yeh, especially bad calls because they remind me to make a “mistake,” to relish my humanness as i blush when talking to a stranger and what’s in that blush? A promise? Of what? Of a chance, that a conversation might spark or an in your face difference of opinion debate as the shyness and blush and humility give way to laughing or fighting and sometimes the public stops what they’re doing and watches and witnesses these spontaneous, unpredictable moments of bumpy conversation because managers, because everyone needs a way to keep their fighting genes active for the next generation of managers who run the risk of becoming like domesticated animals, losing all their wildness as the robots soon replace managers and players and how can a manager defend his player and rally the team if he can’t make a scene on the diamond?

A robot is cocksure, not neurotic!

On october 1st, 1988 Phillies in montreal to play the expos and rookie randy johnson was on the mound and 14:30 into the video of the game…..otis nixon a real threat to steal and when i say real i mean real as in the pitcher could have thrown over there to him inching off first as many times as he wanted and so there he goes and he’s so clearly out and the soft surrender in the announcer’s voice….it’s a surrender that life is not perfect dammit! and we trudge along, pissed off, but even more determined and maybe i’m exaggerating but eugenics seems to be in effect, the rooting out of a segment of society perceived as inferior, in search of perfect genes. Hogwash Nazi logic.

ABS….the automated ball and strike calls I newly name All Bull Shit.

or 47:29 int the video another bad call but ho hum life goes on and it’s randy johnson who hit the ball on this particular play up the middle, Juan samuel got a good bounce on the softly hit ball and threw it to first, Johnson the pitcher chugging down the line and he beat it out….clearly beat it out and another bad call and it made me feel sane and eager to watch more, to see Randy Johnson pissed off at the call and then going back out to the mound for the top of the fourth. He set the phillies down in order.

The Expos wound up losing the game. Randy johnson pitched six innings and gave up two runs.

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