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Posted: November 11th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 28 Comments »
Primer’s Baseball Photo of the Day from Fallujah.
Happy Veteran’s Day and thank you.
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How can a static picture be a screen saver?
Oh, circle me Kilroy.
Damn, playing the infield on that field would be rough.
But, I expect the gentlemen who do so have rougher things to worry about in their lives.
Thanks for your service guys.
What no batting helmet? Don’t they know that is dangerous?
There is some corner of a foreign field…
Cool picture.
Bring em home.
Hey, the pitcher has Walter Johnson’s follow-through! Yeah sure, they were throwing 90+ back then….
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Is it me or is that a right handed George Brett batting stance?
Home plate belongs inside the foul lines. But, as Brent noted, they probably have other things to worry about. Bring ‘em home.
From the looks of the batters’ boxes, they have a right-handed heavy lineup…
Oh man, if this diamond and the Metrodome pooled their resources, they could probably put together a normal-looking infield!
Let’s show our sympathy for them by bringing them home.
Thanks for the heart-warming photo. If all of those men and women could come home safely asap I’d be ecstatic.Changing the hearts and minds of others halfway around the globe seems unimagineable to me. We like to play baseball and American football, others don’t….It ain’t ever gonna change…
Thank You, Veterans!
Add me to the group requesting that our gratitude be shown with plane tickets home.
Also, I’m not sure I want to live in a world where Ayn Rand is considered a better writer than John Updike. These people must be casting their votes for Rand’s philosophy, not her writing.
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Re: 15: As a professional philosopher, I hope not.
This scene has been played out many times in many parts of the world. In WW2 the US Marines used New Zealand as their base of operations while the US Army got Australia (another reason to consider the Marines as the more prestigious force).
At war’s end they left behind a huge amount of baseball and softball equipment, gladly accepted by local communities and ultimately resulting in New Zealand becoming the pre-eminent softball nation on the planet.
I completely agree, Nathan. I’m certainly not a professional philosopher, but philosophy, or rather the history of philosophy, has been one of my prime interests since adolescence.
I suppose it is not unexpected that objectivists should conflate Rand’s vapid writing with her “philosophy”. As Steve Gimbel put it, Rand’s work acts as a “narcotic to the upper-middle-class white male of above-average means and intelligence.” A few dozen of Joe’s readers have been snorting too much of it.
You know, I am sympathetic to Rand’s philosophy. Not devoted to it, but sympathetic, especially since so many of her critics are morons– err, rather, so many of her critics seem to think the central core of her philosophy is “never do anything compassionate for anyone, period” rather than “never do anything compassionate just because other people insist that you’re obligated to”.
Yet even I am absolutely flummoxed by the idea that anyone sentient would claim she’s a better writer than Updike. I mean, that’s like claiming Willie Bloomquist is a better player than Alberto Callaspo because you like his grit.
just a hint, Joe: “author” does not mean “writer of novels.” Whitman and Dickinson are #1 and #2 on my list…..
nice shot. At first I thought the 3rd base line was a string attached to the batter’s arm. bring em home.
great pic. I understand the sentiment to bring em home. Some though want to Finish the Job -so the work was not in vain.
[23] How many more innocents Arabs have to die before you think the work was not in vain? Thank you for leaving my country and please, stop dropping bombs on innocent villagers and wedding parties in Afghanistan. Will they ever get a “day” in the US? Guess not..
that pitch is meat.
If you add Ray Bradbury’s name to your list of American authors, then I’ll be able to vote.
Andy, my sentiments exactly. My first thought at seeing that picture was that this guy is going to crush that pitch.
Innocent Arab, didn’t your country have a hand in the 9/11 bombing, or am I forgetting something? Funny how Afghanistan has gone from being the righteous “good war” to just another example of American imperialism.
(27) Paul H., first, you don’t know what country I am from. I am an Arab from Iraq.
Afghanistan is not an Arab country (though so many Americans seem to not know this, all us Muslims are alike, right??)
Afghanistan was never a “good war” no matter how your media portrayed it. And, like the British and Russians before you, you will leave Afghanistan havign accomplished nothing.