u/Dr_Talon

I couldn’t wait for today’s game, so I threw this on. Action starts around 28:38.

I feel like the characters would be particularly rich for Aristotle’s analysis of virtue, character, the golden mean and human flourishing. Dale would be a funny character to apply these concepts to. Hank would have interesting results.

For example, are Dale’s exterminating practices consistent with the virtue of justice? Is it prudent and proportionate to chase down groundhogs with explosives or release mongooses into stores?

I was only 10 at the time, and not a big baseball fan, but I know that in 2004, the Cardinals had a very strong team on paper, and over 100 wins in the regular season.

Yet they ended up being swept by the Red Sox in 4 games in the World Series. Why did this happen?

I remember hearing about this World Series as a kid in 2004, during the 60th anniversary. It was an all St. Louis World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns. The Cardinals won.

Does anyone have family members who attended these games? I wonder what determined whether one was a fan of the Cardinals or the Browns.

Deion Sanders was a hall of fame NFL player, arguably one of the best cornerbacks ever. At the same time, he was also a respectable MLB outfielder for 9 seasons (not all consecutive) between 1989 and 2001. On October 11, 1992, he played a football game for the Atlanta Falcons, and then flew to try to play an NLCS game with the Braves that evening.

This was controversial at the time. Some thought it was fine. Others thought it disrespected baseball, showed disloyalty to the team, and so on. I tend to sympathize with the argument which says “good for him”, but I also think there is strong weight to the claim that he is risking fatigue and injury by playing in a regular season football game, while his team is making a Word Series push, and that is not giving due to his teammates who rely on him.

What do you think about it?