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Ill be quite the anal retentive a-hole on this. Pete Rose never cheated. Pete Rose bet on baseball. For his team to win. While he was playing and managing. Pete Rose was never charged let alone be found guilty of arranging baseball games... Pete Rose is the all time leader in hits. Played hard every single time he was at bat and running the bases. He stretched singles into doubles. Doubles into triples. Scored on runs that others would simply just stay on 2nd or 3rd base. Pummel the other team's catcher and give them concussions literally while trying to be safe at home trying to make the run count. Pretty hard to arrange losses when he played this way for all 162 games in a season, every season he played for 20 years. 3562 games played. 14 053 at bats. 4256 hits. batting average .303 Dont believe me? Charlie Hustle was his nickname. One could mistake the name hustle as him hustling his way through gambling...but with 4256 hits, the most ever in MLB history even to THIS day, I think hustle means that he played to win rather than play to lose. Catch my drift? And quite ironically and more hypocritically, like anything coming out of the MLB, gambling on baseball games has now become legal in all the American States and Canadian Provinces. No more a taboo gambling is. The 1919 ChiSox scandal Pete Rose is not and never was... Im not even sure one could call him an a$$h073 for playing the game hard as he did, but he did have haters for it.. If its any consolation, no runner could gun down the catcher anymore... but he is definitely not a cheater. And he DOES belong in the baseball hall of fame down in Cooperstown! Major League Baseball owners and leaders and decision makers have a pretty BIG and hypocritical baseball bat lodged deep inside their collective asses. MLB has colluded many a-time for keeping players' wages ridiculously low up until the players got a strong union formed. That would be sometime in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Baseball had reached its century mark and THAT is a far worse taboo and crime committed if you ask me...

100%, Albert Pujols is still doing A LOT for the city of St Louis as he has charitable organizations here as well along with Yadi Molina and Adam Wainright. The STL Blues are a huge partner with St Louis' children's cancer center, along with the Cardinals. Those two organizations have teamed up A LOT since the Rams left town. https://www.nhl.com/blues/news/friends-of-kids-with-cancer-fashion-show/c-301755572

Its not about ego... You of all people David.... Its a CAREER... You focus too much on those that are negative. But there are many that are good role models. You probably only see Babe Ruth as a fat, gluttonous drunk that had extra marital affairs... Yet you are oblivious to the fact that he was very generous to sick children in hospitals and had various charities going... I suggest you do some research before such ignorant blanket statements... The Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens, their respective ownership groups and their respective athletes do soooooo much for Boston, Montreal, Massachusetts and Quebec... Plays for Montreal now... But in Nashville...he did and STILL does lots for that community Read up on him... Played elsewhere...traded to Boston, won the Cup in 2011, got traded to Edmonton and I believe has since retired now its been 3-4 years. Well...the time he spent in Boston, he created many charities for the Boston area and while playing in Edmonton, still catered to these charities in Boston. Still does. Read up on him too. Read up on what this current Bruins Captain does in Boston for Boston and for the last 15 years... https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/44-special-reports/604-canadian-pro-sport-teams-and-their-charities Since the Calgary Flames launched a charity foundation to complement its hockey team in 1983, other professional sports teams have jumped on the philanthropy bandwagon – the Vancouver Canucks in 1986, the Blue Jays in 1992, the Winnipeg Jets in 1996, the Ottawa Senators in 1998, Montreal Canadiens in 2000, and the Edmonton Oilers in 2001. Newly amalgamated in 2009, MLSE Foundation represents the Maple Leafs, Raptors, and Toronto Football Club (soccer). Having a charity attached to a professional sports team offers a way to build the team’s brand in the community. Athletes give their time to do community service, and sometimes allocate a portion of their signing bonus to the team’s charity. With the donations, corporate sponsorships and money raised from 50/50 draws, the pro team charities fund a variety of charities. Grants go mostly towards other kid and sport-focused charities. In 2017, Canadians gave $49.7 million to the eight charity foundations associated with professional sports teams. Having three teams under one charity foundation makes Toronto’s Maple Leaf Sports Foundation the league leader by size, with revenues in 2017 at $10.3 million. Baseball tops all the hockey team charity foundations with Jays Care Foundation raising $9.4 million in 2017. Being a national team with 81 home games in a large stadium with division-leading average attendance of 39,555 (twice the average attendance of hockey, twice the number of home games) has material fundraising advantages. The hockey teams’ charities raise between $4 million and $7 million, making them among the largest 3% of donor-supported charities in Canada.

Also, for the record, not every sport/franchise has public funding. I believe the NFL is the worst with this but certainly not EVERY stadium was 100% public money. Here is a good link and at the bottom it has 111 stadiums and the breakdown via pie graphs of how they were funded. Personally, I think it should be around 50/50 split as both parties are benefitting but the city should NOT fund the entire stadium, imo. https://globalsportmatters.com/business/2019/05/22/who-paid-for-your-stadium/ For example, St Louis' Busch stadium(Cardinals) cost $365m and only $45m was public money. Enterprise Arena(Blues) cost $135m and only $60.4m was public money. St Louis City Stadium(new MLs team, St Louis City) costs $458m and only $5.7m was public money.

@David If you noticed, I am not that enthused by the MLB. Their collective ownership group and the people that run the MLB. I SHARE your thoughts on their greed. But Im also on the side of the fence that understands as long as our society as a whole worships the almighty dollar, crooks and cons will always exist. Nothing we can do to erase that. You might not want to be entertained by watching sports, and that is all fine, I do not want to change any of that of you, but I do want you to reconsider your position regarding your statements of athletes being overpaid. There exists another problem in our society... Where we have been bamboozled in thinking that the working man makes too much money... Keep in mind that athletes ARE the product that sports teams make their billions on. We are conditioned to think that unions are bad.... In India last week or two, some sort of accident happened that killed Indian workers. I dont remember what exactly happened because my ties to this shytty money at all costs society I live in lends me to IGNORE these kinds of stories... But I also havent TOTALLY ignored it either. Im aware... I also know that at the turn of the last century in North America at the start of the industrial revolution, many of these types of accidents happened often enough to have workers rev themselves up, start protests and DEMAND to be unionized for better working hours, conditions and safety... Our mayor, a lady, wanted to expand the subway system. Our Quebec Prime Minister said no as it would cost too much money for that project as Quebec has other needs and Quebec (City) and Ottawa cant afford such projects. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/new-metro-line-with-29-stations-would-cost-less-than-6b-projet-montréal-says-1.4348035 She said the cost would be less than 6 billion CDN dollars... OK...we all know that is false. Corruption and all that...it would probably balloon to 3 times that. 18 billion dollars. Lots of money right? Yeah... Richard Branson and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are spending MORE than that on trying to reach the phoquing moon... Bezos and Musk are WORTH 100s of billions and I KNOW for a fact that Amazon pays NO taxes anywhere, Bezos pays his workers like shyte...but we dont say shyte about that.... We as a tax payer, will agree that expanding our subway lines is NOT worth the cost, yet we say nothing for the billions wasted on pet projects like going to the moon. We allow Bezos to skirt tax laws... Yet we focus on the sports leagues and its athletes... THAT is why I went all pissy on you David. Sorry. But I had to let it out...

Sports is a waste but you always have the "news" on?

I miss not having Olympic as an option to cross the pond with.

? Let's see; leave the old Cadillac quietly sleeping in place, waiting to donate unobtanium parts to other projects, or shred it / melt it down into something imminently disposable like a modern sh!tbox. ?

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Good news on the Electric front, David. Interested to see the Rivian roll out.

More interesting reads: Like this about the various types of rims. What Are the Pros and Cons of Different Wheel Materials? | The Drive OUCH, this could hurt ford in the reputation department and clearly end the making of track ready auto's. Judge OKs Ford Mustang Class Action Suit Over Track Performance (thedrive.com) Proof of just another reason to NOT BUY A NEW AUTO right now. Chip shortage has GM much like other auto companies to cut out basic features that have been in place to keep production going. Makes a used one very important to the buyer to pay attention if they want missing said features. GM Drops Wireless Charging From 2021 Tahoe, Yukon SUVs Over Chip Shortage (thedrive.com) Tesla Supercharging network getting upgraded to 300kWh charging to reduce charge times. Elon Musk: Tesla is upgrading Supercharger network to 300 kW faster charging - Electrek

I know it is the freedom of property owners to do what they want with their land, but I always find it sad that people will trash the very place they live with trash be it matteresses or autos. Wish we would recycle rather than let auto's rust and dirty up places. Yes, cool to find old auto's but the majority, 99.9% of people have no resources to restore and care for these old auto's, time to let them live in the history books.

Seems the Chip shortage has hit Stellantis, while many of their plants in Europe and the Asian rim are going offline for the next month to month and half causing short term layoffs or furloughs, America had avoided this till now. The Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango plant was scheduled to be offline for 1 week for maintenance and changes for the model year, but will now shutdown from July 11th to August 9th due to chip / part shortages. Detroit SUV plant among Stellantis factories halting production – De.Yuan (deyuan.enterprises) Europe has decided on two dates to be voted on this week. Either 2035 or 2040 for a ban on ALL ICE auto's across Europe and to open the discussion on when to phase out ICE medium and heavy duty auto's to move to pure BEV. EU set to call time on combustion engine within two decades | Reuters gm has committed $71 million to build a new design studio for future tech in Pasadena California close to the worlds best design studios/schools. This will allow them to recruit and have the best for the future of auto design. GM to invest $71 mln for new design and tech campus in California | Reuters First Vietnam auto company has opened offices in California with slated new car sales locations to follow. Vietnam's VinFast starts operations in North America and Europe | Reuters

On June 24th, seen against the backdrop of the mountains of the high desert in SoCal: A Volvo that has seen better days, a property bounded by a chain link fence, and some mattresses!

Beautiful bird! Bronco, LOVE this shot! No one else... More Bronco...

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Very cool, seems the tug boats of the world are going pure electric too. Seems even while Musk is before the courts over the law suites over solar city purchase, Tesla Solar just released the largest panel yet at 420 watts. I could cover my whole roof and power my house with no power from the county. I am liking where we are going with solar. Tesla launches new 420-watt solar panel, setting 'high' mark - Electrek

Ha. Yes. You remember the Fury, too. That's right ... when Plymouth was around. Very few of the enamel grays are appealing to me, but this one, among very few, is ok. But, yes, white is both a good and a safe color for the almost timeless Charger. As for the gray, we had one in the family when my dad had an early '80s Regal/Century notchback sedan, but it was the dove gray that Cadillac was also doing at about that time and that color - both on the exterior and on the plush Limited interior - made the car look more upscale than it really was.