Jim Taylor
@jimtsoxfan.bsky.social
Singer-songwriter, doodler, Little League coach, baseball fan.
My original music is here: https://jimtaylor.hearnow.com/
My original music is here: https://jimtaylor.hearnow.com/
When I was nineteen, I told a thirty-year-old man what a
fool I had been when I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he said glancing down,
"a fool two years ago.”
― Donald Hall
fool I had been when I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he said glancing down,
"a fool two years ago.”
― Donald Hall
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
When I was nineteen, I told a thirty-year-old man what a
fool I had been when I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he said glancing down,
"a fool two years ago.”
― Donald Hall
fool I had been when I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he said glancing down,
"a fool two years ago.”
― Donald Hall
Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil as you make it. And, if you have lived a day, you have seen all: one day is equal and like to all other days.
-- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) "The father of modern skepticism"
-- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) "The father of modern skepticism"
March 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil as you make it. And, if you have lived a day, you have seen all: one day is equal and like to all other days.
-- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) "The father of modern skepticism"
-- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) "The father of modern skepticism"
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.
— Annie Dillard
— Annie Dillard
March 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.
— Annie Dillard
— Annie Dillard
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But in practice, there is.
— Yogi Berra
But in practice, there is.
— Yogi Berra
March 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But in practice, there is.
— Yogi Berra
But in practice, there is.
— Yogi Berra
I don't know if this is what you mean, but I feel closest to God like when I'm rounding second base after I hit a triple.
— 9 year old boy, when interviewed about religion
— 9 year old boy, when interviewed about religion
March 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I don't know if this is what you mean, but I feel closest to God like when I'm rounding second base after I hit a triple.
— 9 year old boy, when interviewed about religion
— 9 year old boy, when interviewed about religion
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
— Pete Hamill
— Pete Hamill
March 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
— Pete Hamill
— Pete Hamill
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now? The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
-- Jodi Picoult
-- Jodi Picoult
March 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now? The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
-- Jodi Picoult
-- Jodi Picoult
"Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" - Carmen Berra (Yogi's wife)
"Surprise me." - Yogi Berra
"Surprise me." - Yogi Berra
March 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" - Carmen Berra (Yogi's wife)
"Surprise me." - Yogi Berra
"Surprise me." - Yogi Berra
Your planet is doomed! This very moment, your best and brightest people are blearily scrolling through warm and fuzzy aphorisms, kitten videos, and pithy quotes on photos of stranded polar bears. We Martians could blow you away, but we're saving our ammo in favor of just watching SpaceX explosions.
March 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Your planet is doomed! This very moment, your best and brightest people are blearily scrolling through warm and fuzzy aphorisms, kitten videos, and pithy quotes on photos of stranded polar bears. We Martians could blow you away, but we're saving our ammo in favor of just watching SpaceX explosions.
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure - having a life.
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)
March 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure - having a life.
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
March 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
During 18 years, I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
~ Mickey Mantle, 1970
~ Mickey Mantle, 1970
March 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
During 18 years, I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
~ Mickey Mantle, 1970
~ Mickey Mantle, 1970
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
— Roger Waters
— Mary Oliver
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
— Roger Waters
March 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
— Roger Waters
— Mary Oliver
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
— Roger Waters
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government only when it deserves it.
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
March 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government only when it deserves it.
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. -- Sharon Olds
February 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. -- Sharon Olds
Happy 82nd Birthday to George Harrison.
All Things Must Pass, and George passed at age 58.
All Things Must Pass, and George passed at age 58.
February 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy 82nd Birthday to George Harrison.
All Things Must Pass, and George passed at age 58.
All Things Must Pass, and George passed at age 58.
It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary, someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
― George Saunders
― George Saunders
February 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary, someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
― George Saunders
― George Saunders
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
-- Harry Caray
-- Harry Caray
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
-- Harry Caray
-- Harry Caray
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
February 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
Is anybody else a bit disappointed that the “deep state” appears to be just a bunch of normal people doing their jobs? I was kind of hoping for the Mission Impossible team or maybe the Slow Horses.
February 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is anybody else a bit disappointed that the “deep state” appears to be just a bunch of normal people doing their jobs? I was kind of hoping for the Mission Impossible team or maybe the Slow Horses.