It is my tribe's Day of Atonement and a time to reflect on our personal failings and fallibility and to resolve firmly to be better. Like so many other Jews, I am so tasked today.

But, alas, I have long known the limits of human penitence. A Yom Kippur tale reposted:
davidsimon.com/the-frauds-of-memory-the-limits-of-penitence-and-baseball/

October 02, 2025 - 15:02 UTC

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My head was spinning by, "Maybe if I don’t ask God to have that Royals pitcher hang a curveball, you don’t get traded, you don’t hit 26 jacks in ’72 and go to the World Series and get a ring.”
Great story.
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Thank you for this. A lot of us needed it today. Pitch perfect.
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