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  1. NBA: The Difference a Trade Makes

    So I go on vacation for a while and when I come back, I find that the NBA was in chaos here. Michael Jordan may well try out for the Yankees. Or Mets. Or anyone that will let him show Dolan that he doesn't mess around with the greatest.

  2. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    True, Grant might decide, after Lincoln works with him with Reconstruction, is that the presidency just isn't his thing, because he will be seeing early on that he must trust these more intelligent and articulate people. He must decide to follow their lead or that someone else is better suited...

  3. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    ...would Grover Cleveland have been able to pay for a substitute - at least after the much worse New ork riots and destruction ofTammany Hall, it's *possible* they'd tear down the substitution system, too, or at least curtail it. Which reminds me, I posited ther musical Annie taking place...

  4. How would the response to the Great Depression be different if Coolidge was in charge instead of Hoover?

    Depending on why Coolidge chooses to run.I wonder if TTL could be worse just because President Coolidge died just before Roosevelt was sworn in and with the pressure of the presidency he might die months earlier. And be in ill health through much of 1932. On the other hand if the point of...

  5. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I don't know if you would have the same problem as with Amazon. But I have used lulu.com. And found them very good. The only thing is it is more bare bones with Lulu. Unless you pay for some other things like publicizing. For me, it was just the joy of fulfilling a childhood dream to say I am...

  6. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    -) Especially interesting is that Willie is a blank slate - even if we know his personality that means little. For all we know he could remember most his father being so melancholy at times he doesn't want anything to do with politics, though that could still mean a judicial appointment if he...

  7. Would earlier public knowledge of the South Pass of the Oregon Trail have boosted settlement?

    In 1812, John Jacob Astor's party discovered the South Pass of the Oregon Trail - it hadn't been looked for earlier becasue Lewis and Clark were looking for waterways. TheWar of 1812 meant the knowledge was ignored, and the first family to travel the trail did so only in 1840; it had to be...

  8. Sports What Ifs.

    Joe. Torre was on the hot seat at the start of 1998 if I recall. I think it likely that Buck Showalter, if he goes to the World Series in 1994, simply lasts a few more years and is fired with Torre bBeginning 1998 in the same way Casey Stengel began 1949. Then he just lasts until he retired...

  9. A Screwy Little Neighborhood, Ain't it? - Sesame Street on Cartoon Network

    OK, apparently over at Muppet Central. The forum only goes back to 2014 now, as far as searching, so I can't link it. But I posted something about how I rated different segments that they had in the 2000s and early 2010s. It was a thread where a variety of people were discussing different ones...

  10. AHC: A country enacts female-biased immigration.

    Are we talking only women or women with children under, say, 10 or so? Only Young women, would it be possible for a sudden loss of male population due to war to resolve in a lot of women entering the workforce? And therefore a lot of women being asked to come from another country to be nannies...

  11. Triple Calamity: What if the Three Most Important Men in the Executive Branch Died in One Night?

    This is a mess. I imagine the United States could take a serious pounding, I just hope that we can keep Ben Tillman away from any sort of executive position. Because the populists might well win in 1896. Of course, that means William Jennings Bryan so he might be able to steer them away from...

  12. Sports What Ifs.

    That would be crazy. And yes, Frank Lane may have had ADHD because he didn't seem to be able to stop from trading. It's like those old jokes where someone is just doing something at random and then shouts "squirrel." Except for him it would be "second baseman" and then he would just have to go...

  13. Triple Calamity: What if the Three Most Important Men in the Executive Branch Died in One Night?

    Thanks when I get busy sometimes I just skim over anything else and just read the political stuff which takes a lot in itself. It's amazing how many different things you've come up with.

  14. Triple Calamity: What if the Three Most Important Men in the Executive Branch Died in One Night?

    I just realized something. There was a big recession OTL. Has it been butterflied?

  15. The Denouement in Chicago: An Alternate 1932 DNC

    Well,New York is in a world of hurt. Thatplace is such a mess now. Although the convention is just as bad. Last time they had a pretty sure win, it took over 50 ballots. Will it here. And more importantly, if there's a conservative chosen, will the Liberals bolt? THere was a more progressive...

  16. Sports What Ifs.

    Yes, Hank Greenberg was more his assistant atg first - I wonder if he goes elsewhere after al while,feeling he "learned the craft" but now wants more freedom. Lane likely wouldn't come unless he had total control. OTOH,Veeck could keep Lane out another way; stay for 7-8 years and then sell...

  17. Triple Calamity: What if the Three Most Important Men in the Executive Branch Died in One Night?

    Most writers throw a curveball or two. Mr Q is a knuckleball artist. The ball that Willie Stargell once said hitting it was like nailing Jello to a wall. If the Senate ever does elect a vice president is he automatically become president then? A lot of people should probably vote for Custer...

  18. The Denouement in Chicago: An Alternate 1932 DNC

    Could FDR still be the nominee? I mean 1924 to 103 ballots, and unknown named Franklin Pierce somehow became the candidate in 1852, this is not a party that does things normally, and unlike in 1924 they have a real shot at winning no matter who they throw in there but that was true in 1852 also...

  19. Sports What Ifs.

    Bill Veeck had to sell the Indians in 1949 to pay off the settlement for his divorce - but his marriage had been on the rocks since before he entered WW2, and he tried to win back his wife 3 times; the 3rd time she refused. The 2nd time was at the '46 WS where he brought the famiy in for a party...

  20. Sports What Ifs.

    That would be great. I guess you can't really invent one, huh? From what I understand that's what happened with baseball mogul, the inventor decided that there was no game that really covered the financial aspect of sports as well and so he developed one. I'm not sure if out of the park has a...
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