Subdeacon Joe

Unless that's all you got.

Must be averages catching up with them. They had a heck of a run up til now.

That's a special "Ceremonial Dress Uniform."

Good game! Wrong team, Brewers. won, but good game.

Just like Sam Colt!

The Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. Pretty amazing players.

To be fair, the shaking is what people expect to see when someone fires a machine gun. You watch films of people firing the M-2, the Thompson, the BAR and they shake. They watch films of harmonizing the guns on a WWII fighter and you can see it shake a little They don't think about the mechanics of firing from the cockpit in flight. They just know that people shake when firing machine guns.

Since the movies and television films are for entertainment purposes rather than 100% historical accuracy the shaking is added for dramatic effect. Sort of like the sounds of space ships, or having space ships make turns as if they are fighters in atmosphere.

During the 1968 New Years Festivities in Vietnam, Fr. Michael of blessed memory, at that time an AF chaplain was told by the base CO when it was in danger of being overrun, to pick up a rifle. He refused, but did go and get a large kitchen knife

https://www.twainquotes.com/Guns.html In part: "Don't meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You don't have to take any pains at all with them; you don't have to have a rest, you don't have to have any sights on the gun, you don't have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his mother every time at a hundred. Think what Waterloo would have been if one of the armies had been boys armed with old rusty muskets supposed not to be loaded, and the other army had been composed of their female relations. The very thought of it makes me shudder." - "Advice to Youth" speech, 15 April 1882

Goose takes the mound. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1886694655634695/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

I bit the bullet and looked it up, sat through 2 minutes. At about 1:55 he does a drawn out,"Start Again," which the meme spoofs as "Cardigan."

I might have heard it on the radio in the car. And I've heard the name Billy Idol. I don't recall ever looking up anything by him.

End of an era. Heckuva player. Heckuva coach. Helluva man. Rest in peace, Michael Dyczko.

With the Padres out. I have to go with Dodgers. American League don't have dog in the hunt.