Theme: "Sporting Chance" - Each theme entry consists of two sports team in singular form.
23A. *Grizzly, for one: BROWN BEAR. Cleveland Browns. Chicago Bears. Two NFL teams.
25A. *Olaf II of Norway, notably: VIKING SAINT. Minnesota Vikings. New Orleans Saints.
Two NFL teams.
46A. *It goes up in cold weather: HEAT BILL. Miami Heat (NBA). Buffalo Bills (NFL).
69A. *Nickname for Joe DiMaggio: YANKEE CLIPPER. New York Yankees (MLB). LA Clippers (NBA).
93A. *The sun will eventually be one: RED GIANT. Cincinnati Reds (MLB). San Francisco Giants (MLB) Or New York Giants (NFL), whatever you prefer..
117A. *ICBM booster until 1987: TITAN ROCKET. Tennessee Titans (NFL). Houston Rockets (NBA).
36D. *Kipling's Shere Khan is one: BENGAL TIGER. Cincinnati Bengals (NFL). Detroit Tigers (MLB).
42D. *"Virtuous Woman" reggae singer: WARRIOR KING. Golden State Warriors (NBA). Sacramento Kings (NBA) or LA Kings (NHL)
Reveal:
120. They're on the same side ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues: TEAMMATES.
I explored a similar theme a few months ago (with D-Otto's help), but I gave up after I found out this puzzle last October with a DOUBLE TEAM reveal. I wonder if MM and TTP recall that theme.
Glad to see that Rich now allows 84 black squares. His limit used to be 78.
Across:
6. "Nightmare" street: ELM.
9. Middles: WAISTS.
15. Demonstrating skill: ABLY.
19. Subtle glows: AURAE.
20. Wasikowska of "Damsel": MIA. Australian actress.
22. Hudson Bay nation: CREE.
27. Ornamental vase: URN.
28. Earthly: TERRENE. Not a word I use.
30. MLB Hall of Famer Fox and journalist Bly: NELLIES. Here's Fox.
31. __ a soul: NARY.
32. Va. winter hours: EST. Eastern Standard Time.
34. Genesis twin: ESAU.
37. More klutzy: GAWKIER. So different from the GAWK meaning.
40. Prepare, as a contract: DRAW UP.
45. Like some dorms: COED.
48. Sound of shock: GASP.
49. Sharply hit baseball: LINER. 68. NL Central club: STL. And 12. Slugger's creation: SHINER.
51. Relax, maybe: LIE. Lie down. Helps when Boomer's hernia acts up.
52. Wolf down: EAT.
54. Guru's residence: ASHRAM. My landlord in Shanghai was a Buddhist. He burned incense and chanted every night.
56. Pool concern: ALGAE.
57. Loses steam: FLAGS.
60. Claim no longer allowed on cigarettes: LESS TAR. Remember this type of ads? Amazing what you can find in those old Life magazines.
62. Fortune: WEALTH.
64. Show with constant cliff-hangers: SOAP.
66. Cell division: MITOSIS.
73. Words of understanding: OHS.
75. Uses, as a scale: STEPS ON. We have a mechanical scale. It's not accurate, maybe it's old.
77. Candy bar with a Nordic name: SKOR.
78. Self-reproach: REGRET.
80. Thinks: IDEATES.
82. Played really badly: STANK. These are infamous Stinky Tofu. The tofu is fermented.
85. Comic book artist: INKER.
86. Mentally assimilate: DIGEST.
88. A musician usually has a good one: EAR. 92. Willing to listen (to): OPEN.
90. Originally called: NEE. Chinese women keep their names at marriage. Same tradition in Korea.
91. BĂȘte __: NOIRE.
97. Button alternative: SNAP.
98. Posse carriers: HORSES.
101. Max Ernst, for one: DADAIST.
102. True: ALIGN.
104. Yearn: ACHE.
106. Eye, to a poet: ORB. Also the horse who won the 2013 Kentucky Derby.
107. Pickup relatives, briefly: UTES.
108. Condemnation: REPROOF.
111. Zip one's lip: KEEP MUM.
114. "Rugrats" dad: STU.
122. Pizzazz: ELAN.
123. Spiritualist Deepak: CHOPRA.
124. Bagpiper's topper: TAM.
125. Past pudgy: OBESE. You won't find this word in any of Don G's grids.
126. Target of a military press: DELT.
127. "Dear Evan __": 2015 musical: HANSEN.
128. Mahershala of "Moonlight": ALI. He won an Oscar for his role in "Moonlight".
129. Grown-up efts: NEWTS.
Down:
2. VP under Jefferson: BURR.
3. Par-3 choice, often: IRON. Not a long par-3. You'll need a driver.
4. Not even rare?: RAW. Mmm, sashimi!
5. Insurance that covers dams?: DENTAL. Dental dams.
6. Manicurist's board: EMERY.
7. Yarn spinner: LIAR.
8. Dark area on the moon: MARE.
9. Surfboard/kayak hybrid: WAVESKI. Amazing.
11. Response to goo: ICK.
13. Shades: TONES.
14. "I'm __ to hear from you!": SO GLAD. Rare 6-letter partial.
15. Smoothie fruit: ACAI.
16. Cheese on crackers: BRIE.
17. Telescope part: LENS.
18. To this day: YET.
24. Docking place: BERTH.
26. Result of one too many, maybe: SLUR.
29. Rookie, briefly: NEWB. Newbie.
31. "I can't agree to this": NO DEAL.
33. Scrabble piece: TILE.
35. Going places?: TOILETS. Any of you have a heated toilet seat?
37. Author Sheehy: GAIL.
38. Relaxed: AT EASE.
39. Airline with an all-kosher menu: EL AL.
41. Turkish bigwigs: AGHAS.
43. Solheim Cup team: USA. It was held here in Edina, MN in 2002. We saw lots of big potatoes there.
44. Fluoride-in-water meas.: PPM. Parts Per Million.
45. Cat's weapons: CLAWS.
47. Little trickster: ELF.
50. Confirms, as a password: RE-TYPES.
53. Sub: TEMP.
54. China __: showy bloom: ASTER. So pretty.
55. Use for preservation, as wine barrels: STORE IN.
58. Takes off: GOES.
59. Pass rusher's stat: SACKS.
61. Small intake: SIP.
63. Attacks: HAS AT.
65. Story line: PLOT.
67. Singer Ed featured in the 2019 film "Yesterday": SHEERAN. The guy in glasses.
70. "Just kidding!": NOT.
71. Place for a pad: KNEE.
72. Modern Persians: IRANIS. Iranians more common.
74. __ throat: STREP.
76. Utopias: EDENS.
79. Knowledge of spiritual matters: GNOSIS. Not a word I use.
81. Bareilles of "Waitress": SARA.
83. Without ice: NEAT.
84. Understanding: KEN.
86. Quote from Homer: D'OH. Homer Simpson.
87. 2012 Facebook event, for short: IPO. The wise guys on our blog are not on Facebook.
89. Overhaul: REDO.
94. Sunbather's pride: DARK TAN.
95. Poke fun at: GIBE.
96. Best Supporting Actress before Ingrid: TATUM. Tatum O'Neal ("Paper Moon"). Ingrid Bergman ("Murder on the Orient Express").
99. Merit: EARN.
100. Discolor by burning: SCORCH.
101. Military alert state: DEFCON. Defense Ready Condition Levels.
103. Jack of "Some Like It Hot": LEMMON.
105. To-do: HOOHA.
107. It was added to create an everyday quintet in 1990: UMAMI. Fish sauce. Soy sauce. Miso paste, etc.
108. Tick off: RILE.
109. Series finale: Abbr.: ET AL.
110. Huff and puff: PANT.
112. R&B great James: ETTA. We really need another famous ETTA.
113. Ring at a wedding: PEAL.
114. State of suppressed worry: STEW.
115. Reason to cram: TEST.
116. List for a versatile tool: USES.
117. Talk acronym: TED. Ted Talks.
118. Mil. mess duties: KPS.
119. Before, poetically: ERE.
121. Presidential nickname: ABE.
Dear Agnes (Irish Miss) is feeling better, still weak but no more coughing. I'm just so happy to be able to email her and receive emails from her again.
C.C.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThis puz was teeming with stuff d-o didn't know. Finally figured out that each themer ended with a team name, even if I didn't recognize some of 'em. Is that enough for half credit? Didn't think so. Wasn't familiar with TERRENE or GNOSIS. Thanx, Gary and C.C. (Big potato?)
ReplyDeleteGood morning !
No problems, and I managed to correct a few typos along the way. Now on to a few more crosswords before breakfast, but first ...
C.C., I do remember solving that double team crossword last year. As with Gary's today, it also had sports teams found in common phrases. And as you so aptly indicated, "... sports team in singular form."
Me too. Similar sounding tureen is in my vocabulary. TERRENE is not, and was new to me.
Is ETTA Place famous enough ? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...
From Henrietta, with Etta and Hetty being the most common short forms. NCIS fans know Hetty Lange (portrayed by Linda Hunt).
"Model in the Beach Boys Fun, Fun, Fun." TBIRD. Reminded me of the other day when Waseeley linked Bob Seger's song "Night Moves." As with Courtney Cox appearing in Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video before she became famous, the video for "Night Moves" also has an aspiring actor before he became famous, and also for his role in "Friends."
Get well, Irish Miss. We miss you here, and we'll be SO GLAD to hear from you !
FLN:
Can't believe I fell asleep sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 while switching the channel between Dodgers / Braves baseball game and the OSU / IU football game. Wasn't surprised to find out this AM that OSU won, but I was hoping LA would force a game 7. Not looking forward to listening to the Braves hometown crowds and their tomahawk chant.
Anyway, Wilbur Charles, "Ball Four" really opened my eyes to a side of MLB that I previously was oblivious to.
Dash T, I did read later that Yordan Alvarez was awarded the ALCS MVP, with his record setting performance in the series. I forgot that you were going to the game.
I always do the puzzles on a tablet and when keying in the final letter of the grid, await the congratulatory message that I had successfully completed it, didn’t happen today though, wrong letter(s) somewhere. Wasn’t familiar with terrene (which just auto-corrected to Torrence as I typed it), and didn’t know what a military press was but delt fit. Different combinations of letters led nowhere so I scanned the puzzle several times and realized my error was having “words of understanding” as oks instead of ohs, thus turning Skeeran into Sheeran which I should have known. Took 55 mins but eventually got it right. A sports fan should have no trouble with this theme, and it helps with the perps, opposite of the perps helping to suss the theme. Didn’t know gnosis, Hansen or Waveski ( which looks like it may be a Polish surname with the accent on the second syllable). Didn’t really get the clue for umami?? Thanks Gary and Rich for the fun puzzle and C.C. for the expo!
ReplyDeletePhil, UMAMI (savory, meaty) was added to the other four tastes (sweet, sour, salty, bitter) as a distinct taste, making a quintet.
ReplyDeleteA surprising FIR today on a Sunday with so many sports team names. Had some of the same puzzlements with new words and tricky clues, but usually the meaning was clear enough with a bit more thought. UMAMI, for example, adding to the bitter, sweet, salty and sour tastes. Early on I put sneeze before AHCHOO, though the perps soon changed that. A few other corrections, but on the whole a smooth fill. Thanks, Gary for a satisfying start to the day.
ReplyDeleteThanks C.C. for the interesting review and personal additions. I usually agree with your comments on unusual words. They aren't words I use either. Many learning moments in puzzles. Hope you all have a sporty day. And glad to hear you are improving, Irish Miss.
Otto ~~ thanks for making sense of the clue, still not sure if I’d know umami if I tasted it, foods can be too salty, too bitter, too sweet and too sour, but too umami?? Guess I haven’t seen enough cooking shows đ€·đŒ♂️
ReplyDeleteWe just had ETTA Jones last week.
ReplyDeleteNeeded to get REPROOF to open the SW. Had been thinking of atlAs ROCKET, not TITAN.
Realized I don't notice stars when solving online, then it's ridiculous to go back and look for them afterwards.
ReplyDeletePhil, umami didn't exist before 1990. Our childhoods were deprived :>)
Seriously though, it's the sometimes inexplicable SAVORY taste, that can't be described as sweet, sour, salty or bitter.
Morel mushrooms, pan fried in a sauce, always evoke umami for me. Since it's not the right season for morels, look for these on your hikes: 16 Wild Edible Mushrooms You Can Forage This Autumn
3-Jab Jinx here. Braved the VDOH vaccination site yesterday and got my Moderna booster in just under an hour. Got a high-dose flu shot in the other arm Friday.
ReplyDeleteDNF, surrendering to "Yesterday" and looking up SHEERAN. Also got a wrong cell at the Natick MARa x TERRaNE.
I remember Winston's TV ads. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Followed by the "shouldn't it be AS a cigarette should" and "would you rather have good grammar, or good taste" series. I have a DVD of Mike Wallace and Salvador Dali during an interview on "60 Minutes." Both smoking up a storm. And Johnny Carson used to smoke during the Tonight show before he quit. I hope the government mandates have helped some folks quit or avoid taking up the idiotic practice to begin with. But when I started smoking as a pre-teen, my fellow habituates and I knew that they were bad for us. We called them "coffin nails." We didn't care - we were COOL (but we didn't smoke Kools). I was a Marlboro man, er, boy.
If you use a driver on a par 3, you are hitting from the wrong tees.
For Joe DiMaggio's nickname I wanted "Mister Coffee". (You are as old as me if you understand that reference.) That wouldn't fit, and neither would Joltin' Joe (of Simon and Garfunkel fame.)
And I just cant help but mention that I thought HOOHA was a polite term for lady parts. Now they just say "vee-jay-jay".
Thanks to Gary for the fun, even though a couple of the clues/fills seemed a little on the far side. And thanks to CC for the interesting review.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteEncouraging news about IM. Hope to see you back soon.
Not so hard but could not suss the D in TED/DELT. Otherwise, a fine puzzle. Looks like it took a while to fine-tune and get it "just right". Gary always seems to have fun puzzles.
ICK - First person pronoun in L. German: ick or ik; Dutch ik.
HORSE - - Curious etymology. (to me). Related to Old H. German Hros. But modern German uses Pferd, L. German Peerd, Dutch paard.
Enjoy the day.
Musings
ReplyDelete-A fun and then helpful theme, especially with WARRIOR KING
-Candy manufacturers lobbied to get daylight savings time to end after Halloween which it now does
-“A bloop single looks like a LINER in the box score!”
-Stinky tofu? You mean you can make it even worse?
-KEEP MUM: Ann Landers famously advised, “Is anything any better because I say/do this?”
-The hardest Par 3 we play is 203 yds, uphill, over water, into the prevailing south wind
-MARE Tranquilitatis had two human visitors in July of 1969
-I doubt that 50’s TV sitcom star GAIL Storm is in Rich’s or any constructor’s mind
-You know any subs/temps?
-A SCORCHED building a few blocks from here remains unrepaired. Insurance issues?
-Gotta run.
I couldn't see the 'trees for the forest'. If one of the TEAMMATES' teams had been plural I might have caught the theme but it wasn't to be. I FIR rapidly with the GAWKIER-GAILL-LIE-FLAGS-HEAT BILL area causing the most delay. Honestly, after T-BIRD & T-BOLT I was expecting some type of non-pronounceable consonant combination as the theme.
ReplyDeleteUnknowns and unheard ofs today- WAVESKI, SARA Bareilles, MIA Wasikowska, TERRENE, GAIL Sheehy, WARRIOR KING, STU, HANSEN, DENTAL Dam, GNOSIS
AHCHOO or achoo?
HEAT BILL- price of natural gas is going up.
DEEP TAN- precursor to skin cancer for the unaware
I try to look up my unknowns AFTER I complete puzzles but when I looked up DENTAL Dam I was shocked with the CDC's description of how to use one. Nothing to do with dentistry. You live and learn.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteAs some of you know, baseball is a total unknown for me so even though I finished the puzzle, I felt no elation.
I share the same unknowns as Big Easy. Thank you for listing them. Too obscure.
Many years ago I read Deepak CHOPRA's book though most of it was way beyond me. And I know ASHRAM from Elizabeth Gilbert's book.
CSO to Tinbeni at NEAT.
I believe I've mentioned before that when I taught in Tucson we, the faculty, were given a tour of the TITAN ROCKET which is housed underground there though I don't know if it still is.
Time to go. More later.'
Have a great day, everyone!
FIWrong. GAwP < GASP & OkS < OHS.
ReplyDeleteSports themes go right over my head, like a pop fly when I was playing outfield in Little League. The reveal was nice and clear anyway. Except for HEAT, I'd need an S on the end to have recognized any of the themers. I realize these are the individual players, not the entire teams, I'm just saying...
AURAE are the clouds around you
That reveal your inner view.
I'm a skeptic,
Well, excepting
During allergy season, AH-CHOO!
Once cigarettes promised "LESS TAR".
That's history, not where we are.
If "Les Mis" were then,
With a tobacco bend,
Would Jean Valjean be LES STAR?
{A-, B+.}
LES STAR ! That's a good one!
ReplyDeleteTERRENE, GAWKIER and NEWB with a W definitely lead to some head scratching but eventually it got sorted out. Once the theme was grasped it helped fill in a significant amount of real estate and that is always helpful although an initial BLUR in lieu of SLUR led to some mental list checking.
It is good to hear that I.M. is doing better.
Happy birthday Uncle Fred!
ReplyDeleteI've been working on your cake since your post three days ago...
Teammates?
I dunno, I'm not that big on sports,
Probably because I'm usually one of these guys...
CC, (only because "you asked.")
ReplyDeletedo you really have to ask?
That toilet seat you posted happens to be the first of its kind that I ever encountered.
That very same model was in the hotel room we recently stayed at in London.
I spent an inordinate amount of time experimenting with its bells and whistles...
While the heating part is interesting, I found that the bidet function that heated the water
To be the best part. But my wife thought I was nuts.
honestly,
I think it is a big hoohah that could be handled a lot cheaper...
P.S.
ReplyDeleteThe "do you really have to ask" link
With "why" originally had a caption that
That stated it was a mood ring seat that
Changed color when sat upon.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cross E Dave for all those interesting links ... I dont know where you find that stuff ... ;-)
Thank you Gary Larson for a loong Sunday puzzle, with a lot of learning moments, and thank you CC for a fine review.
I look at Sunday puzzles for a double and triple learning opportunity. I enjoyed the puzzle immensely, and completed in a reasonably long time.
TERRENE :: I knew this might have the word Tierra, meaning earth, as in Terre Haute, Indiana.
I faintly remember a choice fabric, for shirts and pants, in my youth, Terylene and Terene, the trademark of ICI - the giant ( in those days - ) Imperial Chemical Industries of the UK. The word was an inverse combination of PolyEthy-lene Tere-phalate, PET plastics ... called Dacron by DuPont in the US.
TED Talks ... the organisation, stood originally for Technology, Education and Design.
Gnosis ... I have read about the Gnostic Bible and its followers, who were considered heretics by the main line christians. and were persecuted and killed. They held the serpent from the Garden of Eden, in high regard for giving the fruit of knowledge to humanity ...
Have a good week ahead, all.
Re:117A. *ICBM booster until 1987: TITAN ROCKET.
ReplyDeleteWhile, in danger of over posting,
There is a lot more to be said on this subject...
Are you aware that a Titan II accident in 1980 nearly
Vaporised the State of Arkansas?
If you are ever bored, and like history,
Here is a link to The History Guy who
Informs about remarkable events in history in ten minute snippets.
If you want to know the complete story, I recommend
Command and Cover, a PBS documentary by The American Experience
That is often available on YouTube, but right now is one of those
Buy or rent, make money from necessary information outlets.
In a nutshell,
The Titan II was prefueled for immediate launch,
And had the largest available thermonuclear warhead. (h Bomb with a capital H!)
During routine maintenance a large nut was accidentally dropped which
Fell 80 to 100 feet down the silo, bounced, and punctured the 1st stage fuel tank.
Not only was the fuel toxic, it had to be in the 1st stage to support the weight of
The second stage and warhead. Which meant that when enough fuel had leaked,
The rocket would collapse upon itself! Plus, any spark would explode the leaking fuel!
The heroism of people that day are well worth the hour and a half documentary.
Alas, their efforts failed, and the fuel/1st stage exploded, blowing the 2nd stage and warhead
Hundreds of feet in the air. The 2nd stage then exploded, and the warhead fell to the ground.
Examination of the wreckage revealed that the only reason the thermonuclear warhead
Did not explode and obliterate the state of Arkansas is because a mechanical switch,
Very similar to the light switch by your front door, hit the ground in the off position.
If this switch had hit the ground rotated 180 degrees, it would have moved to the
On position, and one of the United States would have been a smoking hole in the ground.
The Government can neither confirm, nor deny this information....
Super(Bowl?) Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Gary and C.C.
ReplyDeleteI did not quite finish. WARRIOR KING required a Google search to open up that area.
But I did see the TEAMMATES (even though they are all American).
Was there anyone here who did not start singing at 1A?
Hand up for Sneeze before ACHOO.
I had Ike before ABE.
The Hudson Bay nation Inuit was too many letters. CREE fit.
Glad to hear that IM is improving. She would have noted the E Game today with EAR, ERE, EST, EAT, ELF, ESAU, ETTA, ET AL, EL AL, ELAN, and AT EASE. But there were none of the hated E- words.
I noted HORSES and MARE (not clued as an equine).
Lots of body parts with WAISTS, EAR, ORB, DELT, KNEE.
I also noted an interesting dupe with USES at 116D (noun) and in 75A clue (verb).
CED- thanks for the TOILET humour today.
Happy Birthday unclefred.
Wishing you all a good day.
This puzzle gave me an hour of pleasure this morning. It took a while but it was satisfying to solve. Like ATLGranny I put SNEEZE before AHCHOO. Like YooperPhil I didn't stop the clock after I had filled all the letters and had to search to find my OKS had to be OHS. Also, my IMP became an ELF and my GULP became a GASP. I remembered GAIL Sheehy from having read her book "Passages" years ago. Discovering the theme helped me change RED DWARF into RED GIANT and ---- PANTHER into BENGAL TIGER.
ReplyDeleteDoes a person, perhaps a STEP SON, who supports a single parent KEEP MUM? Does a proofreader who botches it the first time have to REPROOF?
When we were kids I was much GAWKIER than my brother and sisters.
TERRENE sounds like something you would serve soup from.
GNOSIS sounds like a little garden statue with a pointy hat and pointy-toed shoes.
If you don't know if she'll go out with you, go ASTER, man.
We do not have a heated TOILET seat, and even if we bought one there's no place to plug it in without running an extension cord. Our car has heated seats, though, and there have been a few times we were glad to have them.
Those airlines that serve all-kosher menus include EL AL ET AL.
Good wishes to you all.
The only thing that heats my toilet seat is ME. Especially on a bad day.
ReplyDeleteFINALLY had a Sunday if undivided attention to the LAT puzzle. Began the NW fill rapidly but then went under in a quagmire of misdirection. Looked back to who the creator was ...OMG!! GARY LARSON, my old nemesis! Historically (histerically) I've been argumentative about Gary's monumentally esoteric clueing. After many unsuccessful attempts at registering my complaints, I finally gave up and tossed the unfinished tome. Thus, that is EXACTLY what I just did to his vain attempt at puzzling in the LAT today. Gary, again: don't quit your day job!!
ReplyDeleteLate to the party, as Teri and I went to a memorial Mass and luncheon for a remarkable man, my D.I.L.'s brother Jim, who died too young this past summer. Lots of good people, good stories and good words.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gary for a very sporting puzzle. Had this been horseshoes I might have won, but as it is I was off by a single letter in the NNW and scored an FIW. Careless me didn't proof-read and had ABLE for ABLY and had to eat humble EET. Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea maxima culpa. Wait, I already said that this morning, but then I really can't say it too often!
Saw all the sports teams. Nuff said. Let's see what people are saying on the Corner.
Cheers,
Bill
CrossEyedDave @1:01 PM Frank Zappa?
ReplyDeleteWaseeley, so glad that the memorial mass and luncheon was good.
ReplyDeleteA Guru's residence might be a Tech Lab, eh, Anon-T?
ReplyDeleteCC, so Boomer came up with that NELLIE Fox card, eh? I had Nellie in the day.
My friends father was on the team that developed the Kent Micronite filter. In case b missed it last week here's that link again re. Smoking vs Cancer cover up. Rather lengthy but illustrates what Greta and Picard are up against
How Special Interests can pervert Science
FIW on the MARi/TERRiNE cross. Of all the ways to clue MARE????
The GNOSTICS effectively bypassed organized religion and were subsequently slaughtered for their sins in the Languedoc
Great news re. Agnes(Irish Miss)
TTP, an old friend I played LL and Babe Ruth Ball with, Skip Lockwood*, was on the Seattle Pilot team that Bouton exposed.
Once I grok'ed the theme WARRIOR was a big get on that Reggae person.
Maloman, I didn't get the Jean Valjean joke? I agree with the A- on #1
Interesting that bobbi*s PAN was virtually identical to TTP etal*s Praise
Running around today, then I fell asleep. Here it is for the late crowd.
WC
I see Skip wrote his baseball biography Insight Pitch