March 12th 1922 and "competitive balance"

I was looking for a graphic novel called From Hell which is about Jack the Ripper but instead I found a huge book of Wisconsin State Journal front pages.

So I was flipping through and started looking at the OTHER news and not the headlines.  I found this tidbit from  March 12th 1922 - read the whole thing as this word train keeps getting more and more interesting - I WISH I had the rest of the story!  I NEED to know what is on page 13.

ahhhhh  the good ol days.

MEANWHILE - this photo showed up and I believe it is the first attempt to invent Dolby Atmos  . . it failed.

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The Brewers made a trade yesterday. Not a BIG one but what caught my eye was they traded a "competitive balance" draft pick.   WHAT?   It seems MLB gives small market teams and extra draft pick and call it the "competitive balance" pick which will be around the 40th pick in the draft.

They picked up Alex Claudio who is a left handed lefty killer.  Will probably pitch in 60 games and have 45 total innings pitched.  The job Dan Jennings had.  Come in, get 2 guys out and move on.

Meanwhile in the winter meetings from reports the Brewers are one of the teams all free agents want to talk too.   An up and coming team from a very friendly city with a great fan base.   Getting Yelich has helped in more ways then one. He is like the Reggie White for the Brewers.

It LOOKS like the Crew want a 1 year 2nd baseman. No long term contracts as their are players in the minors to think about.  So once the dust settles and all the BIG free agents that want long term contracts are gone they can pick up on that will fill in for a year.

 But it looks like they want at least one more big impact player. So . . stay tuned.

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Trump's problems keep getting worse.  Now Mueller is looking into Trumps inauguration.

 Obama's inauguration cost something line of 56 and 48 million. Trumps ONE inauguration cost $109 million and had 1/3 the staff and 1/2 the parties and was partially funded by Russian oligarchs. But where did all that money go ????

It has now been confirmed that Trump was a witnesses to a conversation about an illegal conspiracy to obscure spending to benefit a Presidential election between Cohan and Michael Pecker.

He is so toast in the long run. So much for only hiring the "best people".   Can't wait to put this con man and his entire family behind bars.  Probably won't happen but it's fun to dream about. 

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I have not talked about Survivor much but most people are saying this is one of the best seasons ever.

One of the true stars was Christian who makes the actors on The Big Bang Theory look like the cool kids on the block. Christian is a Robot programmer/engineer  and was TOTAL a geek from the git go and  grew into a huge threat to win.

People LOVED this guy.  He was voted out (for good reason as he would have won). Check out his geekyness.  Pay attention to what he looks like after getting cleaned up.

The average contestant loses 1/2 pound of body weight a day and does not see his reflection for 5 to 6 weeks. You basically get 1/2 cup of rice per day as your total food intake.  No baths, no real way to keep clean.

When you get kicked out of Survivor you go to the Pondrosa with the other players that got kicked out.  The white board explanation at the end is funny as one of the BIG challenges that he WON was a very physical challenge. He won it by speaking for 5 hours on theorems to take his mind of pain.  Of the 14 people that started the challenge it was down to 2 players after 1 hour.  He lasted 6. 

https://youtu.be/7Fhf03Llw-8


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We have 3 or 4 alderman,  a City Clerk, a couple top positions (I think) at DPW and a New Police Chief.

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Have a great warm and sunny weekend.