…at the bottom of the AL Central.
Al Avila out as president and general manager in Detroit.
He’d been with the team for 22 years.
Archive for August 11th, 2022
Tigers, Tigers, burning bright…
Thursday, August 11th, 2022I’ve been in a mood.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022So here are two swell stories, about things I’m not even particularly a fan of.
1. American Girl dolls.
Anyhow I think I just watched one of the best medical bedside manners and workflows, with clear care given to patient comfort and consent, that I have ever seen, and it was for a doll.
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) August 10, 2022
2. J-pop.
Edited to add: And from the Department of It Never Fails, shortly after I posted this, something else happened that put me in a better mood. I can’t talk about it now (I hope to be able to in the future), but: go buy stuff from Hornady. Yes, this is an endorsement. No, they haven’t given me anything for this endorsement.
Obit watch: August 11, 2022.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022Gary C. Schroen, CIA officer.
He was most famous for leading the first team of CIA people – probably the first team of Americans, period – into Afghanistan after 9/11.
Mr. Schroen selected seven men and gathered the weapons, outdoor gear and food they would need. The mission was code-named Jawbreaker. At least one representative from the military was supposed to join them, but the Pentagon pulled out of the mission at the last minute, declaring it too dangerous.
“There was no rescue force,” Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A. case officer who worked frequently with Mr. Schroen, said in a phone interview. “If they got in trouble, there were no American troops to come rescue them.”
Before Mr. Schroen left for the mission, Mr. Black took him aside.
“I want to make it clear what your real job is,” Mr. Schroen recalled Mr. Black telling him. “Once the Taliban are broken, your job is to find bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back on dry ice.”
He also wrote a book, First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (affiliate link).
Darryl Hunt, bass player for the Pogues. I apologize for not inserting a musical interlude here, but I couldn’t find one that featured Mr. Hunt. If anybody has one, they are more than welcome to put a link in comments.