Gabriel's - "Great Wind"



This one came out just a few years ago, and became an instant favorite of mine. It is such an emotionally-packed lyric and I broke down crying listening to it again just now. It was a good cry, the kind Ozzy asks about in "Looking for Today". And although I've been doing my best to avoid crises and tough times since it came out in 2023, this song has been there for me. Even when I'm not having a tough time, it reminds me of what I've been through and what I've yet to endure, and how love is gonna be the duct tape of life that binds us all together, but not in a hippy-drippy way, it's a real confrontation of losses, conclusions, and departures and why you tell someone you love them every day.

Fun fact: Neil Diamond was a Dodgers fan, so he never participated in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. As such, he has no issues with the Red Sox singing his "Sweet Caroline" during games.

Also fun fact: The Dodgers' owner was wanting a stadium with better transportation connections because he was having trouble selling out games. He was looking at a site in Queens, but chose instead to have the town of Brooklyn condemn land and then sell it to him so he could build a stadium. They told him, "Hey, you got money, why don't you buy it yourself?" So the owner went into talks with LA, which *was* willing to condemn land and hand it over to the owner.

But the baseball league wanted there to be another California team, so the Dodgers' owner convinced the NY Giants' owner to move with him, and that's how we got the LA Dodgers and the SF Giants.

Then, after that, the baseball league felt that another NY team was warranted and so they created the Mets.

And now I got "Sweet Caroline (Da Da Daaaaah)" stuck in my head, which isn't all that bad, really.

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Some of the team names don't even make sense.  I doubt there are many cardinals flying around in Arizona.

Which is why one sports writer suggested they be called the "Arizona Cactus Wrens".

@Zzzptm:  Sorry, but my friends and I still say the Washington Redskins.  Not because of any negativity, but for the same reason we still say the San Diego Chargers.  Its just been too many years that way and it ain't going to change now.   

I don't blame ya or take umbrage there. I knew a massive Redskins fan, he was one of the Question Leads for AP Economics grading that I did for 7 years. When we had our end-of-the-week social, he would bellow out the Washington Football Redskins fight song as part of the festivities. Younger folks want to say "Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons", but "Redskins" still has a nice two-syllable ring to it.

And I'm still wanting there to be a San Diego Chargers, as well. Hell, I still want a St. Louis Cardinals football team and a Houston Oilers.

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What is "Minis" ?   

Mini Coopers, as they were small enough to wriggle an escape in the tight Italian streets.

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