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Fred Snodgrass died at 86 in 1974 not 1994.

Otherwise he would have been 5 years old in the 1912 World Series, which alas, could have been a good excuse for dropping that fly ball, but alas, no.....

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Did I say '94? Yes, I meant '74, they had young players back then but not THAT young.

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Loved the vintage sports recap, could be a regular feature (name, of course: SportingCentre). However I must issue a Fake News Alert: Walter Johnson was not in fact 85 years old in 1924, he only LOOKED like he was 85 (he was 36).

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Listen, Mauer. I can get plenty of “Well, actually . . .” economics takes elsewhere on Substack. I pay you to make jokes involving body parts or things emanating from them. Get it together!

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I can attest to the awesomeness of a Hampton Roads Hurricane Party. I was a sophomore in college during 1999’s Hurricane Floyd at a school that was generally full of uptight nerds. Shit popped off! You had to drive to Toano to find any remaining 40s of Hurricane Malt Liquor.

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You made a very clear and concise argument for why limiting prices to predisaster levels is a bad thing, I don't see how that means that there should be NO price controls. To use your 20 dollar bottle of water example, if we assume that the normal price is 1 dollar, why not cap the disaster pricing at 5 dollars? That should still have all the positive effects you described, but also prevent some of the "fuck you, you unlucky bastard" feelings.

Now, to pick holes in my own argument, private resales might be an issue there, if the stores are capped but the black market isn't, however I'm not convinced that that is an insurmountable problem. I also think that capping only chains with branches/supply chains outside of the disaster zone might be a solution.

What I'm basically saying is, it seems to me (although I'm uneducated on the topic), that the best solution might not be the binary one, and that some form of anti price gouging might work.

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“If you are wondering who was the lone death-wish-having critic,”

Please let it be Armond White. *Please* let it be Armond White…

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Your staff is now large enough to unionize.

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I just became a paid subscriber so I'm listening to some of your back podcast episodes and one had a Paul Whiteman intro and did you know that Paul Whiteman got a posthumous racially charged "diss" in a rap song in 1990? In the Gangstarr song "Jazz Thing" which accompanied the Spike Lee film Mo' Better Blues, rapper Guru (also deceased now, sadly) stated the following :

The real mystery is how music history

Created Paul Whiteman or any other white man

And pretended he originated

And contended that he innovated a jazz thing

I thought Guru just picked on him because his surname worked well for the purpose but I looked up Whiteman on wikipedia and actually he was criticized for ripping off black musicians back in the day although it also notes he did work with black musicians despite segregation and got props from Duke Ellington for being good at jazz, so who knows?

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Nice reference to Farm Fresh supermarkets in Hampton Roads. But alas they are no more.

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I didn't know that! Wish I held stock in Giant, then.

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Can you provide a transcript for the audio?

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There is a transcript! The button is located beneath the audio player on the right side.

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