When people give you two options, do you believe A or B, it is almost always the case that neither one represents what I believe.  

 Thanks. 

 Thanks.  That was a really good movie that failed--A Bridge Too Far.  

 

 Haven't read it.  Thanks.  

 They were originally going to call themselves the California Moral Philosophers. 

 The interaction between mental and physical energy is an interesting topic.   I'm not sure that saying "mental activity it physical activity, too!!" is either (a) accurate, or (b) necessary.   I would accept chess as a sport without any consideration of whether some jackass loses weight while doing it.  You lose weight while sleeping, too.  

 

This issue has always interested me, based on my own experience.  Sometimes at 11 PM I am physically very tired, ready to sleep, but working on something, some baseball problem, so I stay up and write or stay up and do my research.   Once everything around me goes quiet and I can focus on my work, i get a burst of mental energy, not physical energy, but I am alert and focused on my work, and stay that way until the sun comes up and people around me start to move around and distract me.  This has happened to me many hundreds of times, and I always wonder how it is that I have the energy to do this when I was exhausted 8 hours earlier.  Mental energy and physical energy, to me, are just different things.  Making mental energy into a subset of physical energy (a) does not seem convincing, to me, and (b) DIMINISHES the significance of mental energy, rather than adding significance to it.  

 Thanks.  Chariots of Fire was a terrific movie until they ran the theme song into the ground.  Then nobody could stand it anymore.  

 Thanks. 

 Good to have you with us.   All I know about Dr. Jobe's operation is what I read in Tommy John's autobiography, which gives the impression that it was an experimental operation which had a high probability of failing.   I have no knowledge of the issue beyond that.  

 1)  It's probably easier to use the state name if you have less competition.  The California Angels was troublesome because you have four other major league baseball teams in the state.  

 

2)  It's not an INHERENT problem.  The Colorado Rockies are not the Denver Rockies; we don't even notice.   The Tennesee Titans are not the Memphis Titans; nobody even notices.   If you put a team in Indianapolis and called them the Indiana whatever, nobody would pay much attention.   But if you put a team in Columbus and called them the Ohio Whatsis, that would be a challenge.  

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 Thanks. 

 Yeah. . .you can still see that show someplace.  A million channels now; somebody was re-running that within the last couple of months.  

 He was Tom Glavine, basically, but he was super-flexible and super-durable.  Glavine was very durable. . .there was something really odd about Spahn's energy level.  In 1963 he pitched a famous 16-inning pitchers' duel against Juan Marichal.  July 2, 1963; had to look that up.  THe game was 0-0 through 15 innings, both starting pitchers still working.  Spahn gave up a home run to Willie Mays in the 16th inning, so Marichal won the game.  But after the game there was an interview filmed with Marichal and Spahn.  Marichal, who was 25 years old, looks like he just really wants to get home and go to bed.  Spahn, who was 42, is kind of bouncing around like he has a lot of nervous energy that he can't quite figure out what to do with.  After that game he took his regular turn in the rotation (July 7) and pitched a 5-hit shutout.  In his next 10 starts after the 16-inning game he went 9-1, all of the wins being complete-game victories; in the loss he pitched 8 innings and gave up 2 earned runs.  

 

He was a good hitter. . . he hit 35 home runs in his career, which I think is a record for a pitcher, although there have been many pitchers who were better hitters, but still, 35 homers is something.  He was skinny, almost scrawny, very quick.  

 

During World War II he was something of a hero. . .don't know the details, but I remember that somebody published a kid's book that overstated his heroism in World War II, and he sued them and made them withdraw the book and publish retractions.  He was funny, always joking around.   One year, when he and his teammate Lew Burdette were the best 1-2 pitching combination in baseball, on the day the Topps photographer appeared they switched gloves and switched uniforms, so that (as I recall) Burdette appears on Spahn's baseball card and Spahn appears on Burdette's.   Pitching for the Mets at the end of his career, he joked that he was the only man to play for Casey Stengel both before and after he was a genius.  He had played for Casey in 1941, briefly, with the Boston Braves (0-0 record), and then pitched for the Mets in 1965.  He was noted for having the best pickoff move of his time.  Just. . .impossible to capture him in this space, but I hope this helps.