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VolPack22 said:
The last time someone won a women’s major championship 6-0, 6-0 was Stefi Graff in 1988 at the French Open. Prior to that, the only other occurrence was Wimbledon in 1911. Pretty historic event for women’s tennis.
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Volprofch05 said:
Been reading a bunch of Stephen King novels of late, just finished the Shining, and I was surprised how different the book is from the movie, which I hadn’t realized before. A lot of stuff that happened in the movie didn’t happen in the book, and vice versa. Both very good though. Before that I finally read through the Stand, It and Different Seasons.
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Still crazy that he wrote Stand by Me, Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile
 
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Cosmo Kramer said:
Still crazy that he wrote Stand by Me, Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile
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Yep, and Stand by me and Shawshank were based on two short stories that were included in the same novella (different seasons), along with apt pupil (also made into a movie with Ian McKellen). Overall, writing > 65 books that have been made into at least 50 moves is insane.
 
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I've always loved this song from Elton John. I had a friend in the 1970s who saw him in concert in Memphis once. I never really gave Elton a thought back then. Apparently, he could bring in the lovely ladies though. Back in those early days he had a dude (Bernie Taupin) that would write the music & Elton put the lyrics to that music. Genius MF.

 
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knoxvol52 said:
Jones was terrific but saying he was the best is going out on a ledge. Many great CF's in history of MLB. I will say top 5 but greatest is pushing it. Although I get it Braves fans will put him at the top but Mays,Maris, Griffey Jr. amongst others were just as terrific. For the record pre-Reds years Griffey Jr. Was the best and if not for injuries probably bypasses everyone else
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We were talking strictly defense. Mays wasn’t even the best of his generation. Clemente was a better defender than he was. The only players ahead of Jones on defense are infielders. If you want to factor in offense then that’s a different discussion and there are several outfielders ahead of Jones but as far as defense is concerned there was not another outfielder that did it better.
 
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VolPack22 said:
We were talking strictly defense. Mays wasn’t even the best of his generation. Clemente was a better defender than he was. The only players ahead of Jones on defense are infielders. If you want to factor in offense then that’s a different discussion and there are several outfielders ahead of Jones but as far as defense is concerned there was not another outfielder that did it better.
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Okay, Boss. 🤠
 
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