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Is this America's greatest crisis since WW2 or the Civil War?
#13
This will be our greatest crisis if we don't have a college football season this year.
#14
(03-30-2020, 08:06 AM)jmesser1982 Wrote: This will be our greatest crisis if we don't have a college football season this year.
Or baseball.  Reds spent money on big FA and made trades and assembled a really fine looking team.  Would be a shame if they couldn't play.
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#15
(03-30-2020, 08:12 AM)zigbee Wrote:
(03-30-2020, 08:06 AM)jmesser1982 Wrote: This will be our greatest crisis if we don't have a college football season this year.
Or baseball.  Reds spent money on big FA and made trades and assembled a really fine looking team.  Would be a shame if they couldn't play.

They'll be lucky to post 65 wins this season.
#16
(03-30-2020, 08:16 AM)Beastdog Wrote:
(03-30-2020, 08:12 AM)zigbee Wrote:
(03-30-2020, 08:06 AM)jmesser1982 Wrote: This will be our greatest crisis if we don't have a college football season this year.
Or baseball.  Reds spent money on big FA and made trades and assembled a really fine looking team.  Would be a shame if they couldn't play.

They'll be lucky to post 65 wins this season.
Why is that?
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#17
Because we might not play enough games to win that many?  I think he was just being a smart arse.   Tongue
#18
Didn't the Astros hire Dusty Baker for this season?  Was on the phone last night with Al Oliver who played about 18 years for Pirates, and Rangers and Expos and he's a good friend of Baker.  He said he was on the phone yesterday with Baker also.  I said Al, did you know that guy is a renaissance man?  He's into music, fly fishing, art, haute cuisine, ?  He makes guys like you and me look like cavemen.  He had no clue. Huh  I forgot to ask Al if Baker is Astros manager but I think he is.   OBTW, Gene Tenace is local guy like Al, too.  Gene is from Lucasville.
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#19
(03-30-2020, 08:35 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote:   I think he was just being a smart arse.   Tongue

This. Just jerking zig's chain. I have no idea how bad the Deads will be. I do know that zig tends to be an optimist, though.
#20
(03-30-2020, 08:47 AM)zigbee Wrote: Didn't the Astros hire Dusty Baker for this season?  Was on the phone last night with Al Oliver who played about 18 years for Pirates, and Rangers and Expos and he's a good friend of Baker.  He said he was on the phone yesterday with Baker also.  I said Al, did you know that guy is a renaissance man?  He's into music, fly fishing, art, haute cuisine, ?  He makes guys like you and me look like cavemen.  He had no clue. Huh  I forgot to ask Al if Baker is Astros manager but I think he is.   OBTW, Gene Tenace is local guy like Al, too.  Gene is from Lucasville.

I remember when Oliver coached Shawnee State's baseball team.

Dude could flat out hit.
#21
(03-29-2020, 06:23 PM)lrrps21 Wrote:
(03-29-2020, 06:00 PM)K9Buck Wrote: Where does this rank?  I guess it's premature to try and answer that question.  My guess is this might be the greatest crisis since the Civil War.  WW2 helped lift us out of the depression and the nation was united and galvanized and accomplished great things.  Sadly, many young American men died, but the nation emerged as the most powerful on the planet.  This is different.  We've shut down most of the economy and are getting ready to print $2 TRILLION and there will be more after that.  

Thoughts?

C H I C K E N     L I T T L E^^^

Note: Not all died equally in WWII. A grand total of 708 colored dudes died in combat. To be fair, Uncle Sam sure made up those numbers in Korea and Vietnam.

No, I'm not "Chicken Little".  The government really did shut down most of the economy, for the first time in our nation's history.
#22
(03-29-2020, 07:34 PM)ChinaBuck Wrote: This crisis is no where close to the Civil War, the Great Depression or WWII. Get a grip people.

Edit to add: it is also not even close to the American Revolution, Spanish flu or the Vietnam War. Right now, in terms of impact on the country, I would equate it with the War of 1812. Maybe.

It seems to me that we're going to be an exorbitant price for shutting down the nation.  It's never been done.
#23
(03-29-2020, 09:49 PM)3rdgensooner Wrote: Too soon to say but if it's a bigger crisis than the Civil War we are in deep kimchee.
620,000 soldiers died in four years out of a total population of around 25 million. That'd be like losing 8 million now. And relatively younger men only.

I believe the Civil War was the greatest, most costly crisis in our nation's history.  

When it's all said and done and, when including the economic costs, this crisis may come in second.
#24
(03-30-2020, 06:11 AM)Brutus Buckeye Wrote: Yeah, in Nam we were drafting kids and asking them to go off and fight in a war. Today we are asking them to stay home from school.

The Vietnam War was America's biggest foreign-policy mistake in probably the history of the nation.  However, it was spread over many years and we didn't shut down the nation.


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