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Peter Gammons has a great article in The Athletic today:

Before baseball stopped, the Dodgers looked formidable

A tidbit:

Only three National League pitchers had more quality starts than Clayton Kershaw’s 22 (Ryu also had 22). He had a 1.04 WHIP, 3.03 ERA last season, then worked this winter with Driveline and others, and changed his diet and body composition. He was hitting 93 mph in his first spring outing, but more important, seemed to have smoothed and connected his delivery from his left shoulder to his right foot so that his landings appeared perfectly in sync. “He is driven and committed,” a teammate marveled.

Buehler is a Cy Young Award candidate in waiting. Price’s delivery, velocity, changeup and command were precise and impressive, his head cleared from the noise three blocks from Kenmore Square. Urías has the stuff of a big winner, and the $4 million re-signing of Wood appeared a bargain, with his fastball up to 94 mph and his secondary stuff rediscovered with his health.

Just got back. We are very fortunate. Shelves well stocked. The only item we could not get was yeast. Everyone keeping their distance.

House cleaning.

We are fine. Going for some groceries this morning in a bit. Most places have the first hour reserved for seniors and everything marked off on the floor for the 2-meter separation distance. Some open at 7:00 A.M. for seniors after shelves have been stocked during the night.

We have a good supply of hand sanitizer and gloves. No masks.

Saludos desde Mexicali, BC, Mexico..

Although for language reasons, I don’t comment too much (My english is very bad) I read this blog every day.

Here we are, fine until now, I cannot stop working since being a patrolman, I cannot afford to not go to work.

Good luck to all of you, your families and friends.

Stay at home !!

I am alive and kickin. Looking forward to the country concert that is going to be on CBS this Sunday, and Garth and Trisha on CBS Wednesday night. Most of the pay channels are letting people watch for free. 2D2, I won the Demeter card I was bidding on, got it for 1.26. Pretty cool. Also bought the book about Roy Gleason, Lost in the Sun. It got here yesterday and I read a little of it today. A couple of weeks ago, I was pretty sick. Started out with a sore throat, I thought I was getting a cold. So I took all the normal cold medicines and was using Vick’s to help tame the congestion and cough. Turned out I had a bladder infection and a sinus infection at the same time. Got some antibiotics from the VA doc, and in about a week, I was a whole lot better. Check on my family in Cali every week to make sure they are ok. My daughter in Oregon, and my son, who lives up in Denver and make sure they are all well. Streets in our little town have been pretty empty. Theater is closed, but the bars have stayed open. Restaurants are mostly take out only. My building is for the most part, shut down, no visitors except caregivers. I can still get my Dodger fix watching games from 18 and 19 on MLB.TV. TP and other items are also in short supply here. I have enough to last more than a month though, so I am ok. Be safe y’all.

Still here, still OK.

I had some kind of an infection in my lungs – not viral anyway. Not pneumonia. 3 antibiotics and some steroids later, doing much better.

My wife has managed to stay out of the hospital – she had an infection that we’ve beaten off. She had a a procedure on her dialysis access on Friday – the hospital was oddly quiet (no elective procedures being done).

Still working – who knew that lawyers are essential?

Still can’t buy toilet paper, paper towels, dried beans, hand soap or hydrogen peroxide (nothing for a month). Some day, there will be millions of people who have a pallet of toilet paper in their garages and they will finally figure out they don’t need to buy more.

77 and doing well. Daily reader, seldom poster. Really enjoy remembering the early 50’s as I became a Dodger fan @ age 8 in 1951. The SC in my handle stands for South Carolina not Southern California. Being raised in Jupiter, FL I loved going to Spring Training @ Dodger Town in Vero. Served Marine Corps 1962-1968, but never sent to Nam.

To quote Willie Nelson:

“It’s been rough and rocky traveling

But I’m finally standing upright on the ground

And after taking several readings

I’m surprised to find my still fairly sound.”

Like AC, I still go to the office every day, though I’ve cut my hours back to 8-10 a day. Unlike AC, however, I don’t see retirement in my near future. I still love being a lawyer. And enjoy working. The administrative side of a law practice I don’t enjoy at all.

I’m here, sort of. Bangkok, a city of 10-12 million is eerily quiet at times. The Thais are social people, lots of street life, vendors, food stalls. Almost everyone wearing a mask. I go out to shop for food in the local market. Business as usual but only food shops for take away and pharmacies are open. Trains which are usually packed are thinly occupied with social distancing in place when possible. People are polite as usual. We have no way of knowing the real infection and death rate because testing is not widely done. 10 dead out of 1600 infections. Quite low. If it is real, I have no idea why it would be so low as we saw millions of Chinese tourists here before Wuhan exploded. The world is still waiting for the economic fallout of this to hit home.

I appear to be fine. I go to the office every day and spend at least 12 hours at the office and then spend another 2-4 working at home. I am pushing hard to be able to retire by June 26. My daughter is angry with me because I still go into the office. I plan on starting to work more remotely beginning tomorrow. I have a fear of loss of living more than I fear losing life, but what I fear most of all is disappointing my family.

I have been too busy to respond as much as I want. But I read LADT and The Athletic every morning with my 1st cup of coffee and 4:30 AM.

Everyone stay safe.

Mark:

I’m here and so far I’m fine. I visit here every day but just haven’t had the time to post. I live in Charlotte County(Punta Gorda) on the west coast of Florida and so Far we haven’t been hit too bad by the virus( 7 sick and one dead)

The east coast is another story by far.