Tuesday, March 3, 2009

good talk

You Hard-Core Losers are dragging me down with You. I've been to Plains, Georgia which is where Jimmy Carter lives. It amounts to very little, it's like Johnson City, Texas which always was depicted as a thriving small town when LBJ was President, when I was there long ago there was hardly anything there. There's Jimmy's estate with a sign on the rusty fence bordering the road stating "Keep on Moving." I thought that I saw Jimmy drive out. There's the Peanut Warehouse and there's Billy's Gas Station and I went inside. They still sell "Billy Beer" there and you can buy some for a bloated price. When Jimmy was told that his brother Billy had Registered as a Lobbyist for Libya that was the only time that anyone heard Jimmy take the Lord's Name in vain. If anybody should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame it's Roger Maris, they have the Roger Maris Museum in a mall in Fargo, North Dakota and I've been to that, it's real good. From Fargo, the last I heard Roger Maris held the national high school record for kick-off returns for touchdowns in a single game, it was 6 or something, a lot. Oklahoma under Bud Wilkinson was a great powerhouse in the 50's and recruited Roger Maris. Roger took the Greyhound (that's called takin' a dog, the modern Greyhound is seven-eighths Greyhound and one-eighth English Bulldog for strength, I've been to the Greyhound Museum in Abilene, Kansas and that's real good, they have a current Greyhound Champion to greet people and an old, retired Champion who does nothing but lay on a big pillow) to Norman, Oklahoma but when there was no one to meet him he turned around and went back home and began his baseball career. Roger Maris was a 2-time American League MVP and bettered Babe Ruth's record of 60 Home Runs in a Season with 61 in 1961 when he was also with the Yankees. People despised Roger for breaking Babe Ruth's record pointing out that he did this in a 162 game season whereas Babe Ruth did his 60 in a 154 game season, they neglect to point out that Roger did his 61 in fewer at-bats than Babe Ruth did his 60. Persecuted as an Evil Man for the rest of his life for having the temerity to do as well as he possibly could during the 1961 Season, Roger Maris died from Cancer when he was "52." You held the Major League Record for Home Runs in a Season for 37 years and were twice the American League Most Valuable Player but you're not in the Baseball Hall of Fame? The Thinking in this Country has been askew for quite some Time and Things are so bad Today that You're Better Off to be Old rather than Young.

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