Je me souviens means I remember.

It is the slogan of Canada's French speaking province of Quebec, where the city of Montreal is located.

It refers to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the subsequent trials of the Cajun people, recounted famously in "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and by the song "Acadian Driftwood " by the Band.

50 years of the Expos-Nationals franchise. 95 years since the great Walter Johnson took the mound to finish the seventh game against the Giants.

A lot to remember.

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, c'est soir?

Posted by bronxcheer on 10/31/2019 4:14:00 AM (view original):
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, c'est soir?

Um, no Monsieur, merci beaucoup.

So, to continue the first thought and elaborating now that I am seated before hot coffee at my table with my computer instead of using my cell phone,

Baseball is ALWAYS ABOUT REMEMBERING. It is mythological time, not Cartesian standardized, quantified time. It has, as I have written about here so often before, the antidote to everything else that is dominant in American culture.

It is about place and not about time, if you like, whereas capitalism is always about time and is indifferent to place (culture, language, tradition etc.).

A recent article showed that, contrary to everything we thought we knew, BASEBALL IS THE MOST WATCHED GAME IN AMERICA. But NOT NATIONALLY. Most baseball watching is local watching of your local MLB team. Those games are not carried nationally, and so the national broadcasts of games don't compete with the NFL or NBA games that are nationally broadcast. But add up the local games and baseball wins.

Because it is about place. And its sense of time, therefore, famously clock-free still, is mythological. Mythological time - here by myth I mean a narrative structure within which we live parts of our lives and which provides us meaning, not the superficial meaning of something that is not a fact - is concurrent and not linear, and is infinite in a way: Walter Johnson is ALWAYS taking the mound to save game 7, Grover Alexander is ALWAYS striking out Tony Lazzari, Babe Ruth is ALWAYS calling his home run, Yaz is ALWAYS driving the 67 Sox to the pennant, Bucky Dent is ALWAYS breaking Fenway fans' hearts with his homer and David Ortiz is ALWAYS breaking Yankees' fans hearts with one of his.

The Expos are ALWAYS that great 1994 team whose greatness we will never see realized, Expos fans are ALWAYS heartbroken first at seeing their players traded and sold off and then at losing their team to Washington.

Washington is ALWAYS "First in War, First in Peace, and Last in the American League" - except for last night.

Now Expos and Nationals Fans are also ALWAYS winning game 7 and feeling like the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice, as Dr. King said.

The French-Canadians are ALWAYS being betrayed, losing their homes, wandering off to find a place in the world for themselves, their close-knit community broken apart, they are ALWAYS losing the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Je me souviens.

Very NICE!! Love your post.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

There's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could fall down
Your baby could drown
Wouldn't none of those Frenchmen care

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Timestamp: 2019-11-02 20:19:49 UTC

french canadian bean soup...i want to pay......let them leave me alone.

Italyprof you've outdone yourself again.

A recent article showed that, contrary to everything we thought we knew, BASEBALL IS THE MOST WATCHED GAME IN AMERICA. But NOT NATIONALLY. Most baseball watching is local watching of your local MLB team. Those games are not carried nationally, and so the national broadcasts of games don't compete with the NFL or NBA games that are nationally broadcast. But add up the local games and baseball wins.

This is incredibly misleading because the methodology didn't normalize for season length. On a per-game basis football is certainly blowing baseball out of the water. MLB just has 10 times the games of the NFL, and double the NBA and NHL. (Though I do think MLB is still comfortably ahead of the NHL in average local ratings and marginally ahead of the NBA).

you'd argue with a gummy bear

go cajuns

louisiana

unroll that tide

Posted by crazystengel on 11/2/2019 4:20:00 PM (view original):
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Down By Law
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Timestamp: 2019-11-02 20:19:49 UTC

Crazystengel, you outbagchuckered bagchucker this time !

And marcstuart, thanks, I very much appreciate that you have always been one of those on this site who gets what we are doing here.

Love that Randy Newman song by the way, and Huey P. Long is worth another look, today especially, he is strangely relevant to 2019.