Best MLB Draft Picks in Round 1 and what selection.

[waroriole]

1 hour ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I go back and forth with '12 and '89.  I never thought there'd be another '89, then there was.

But '99 Virginia Tech football is right there, too. And I'm not even that big of a football fan any more.

It probably says something about me that my top three teams (and nobody else is remotely close) didn't go home with the trophy.

That 2010 Auburn team is the only one I’ve ever had win it all. I’ll maintain the 2014 Orioles were the best MLB team though. 

[Redskins Rick]

14 hours ago, CheeryO said:

The Baltimore Sun used to be one of the greatest newspapers in the US, far greater than the Washington Post up until the 70s when the Post stole the spotlight on Watergate.  The Post is no more liberal than it ever has been -- it is the paper that exposed Nixon yet (along with every other paper except the Knight Ridder reporters and foreign press) failed to properly investigate the run-up to the Iraq War.  

Sorry, read both papers daily for a few decades, and seriously, the Sun has never come close to being a great newspaper ever. But, that is just IMO.

The POST had great reporters who did go after Nixon.

But, what have they done in this decade?

[CheeryO]

9 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

Sorry, read both papers daily for a few decades, and seriously, the Sun has never come close to being a great newspaper ever. But, that is just IMO.

The POST had great reporters who did go after Nixon.

But, what have they done in this decade?

Here are a couple links on the history of the Sun.  Pretty impressive stuff.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/about/bal-about-sun-sunhistory-htmlstory.html

https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2019/03/08/when-baltimore-sun-was-washingtons-most-visible-newspaper

Couple of  tidbits

The only war correspondent in attendance when the Germans surrendered in Reims, France was a reporter for the Sun.  Similarly, when the Japanese surrendered on the USS Missouri, three reporters for the Sun were there. 

For awhile one of the tallest privately owned buildings in Washington DC was the Baltimore Sun building, which was built for the newspaper in the 1880s.  The paper did not stay there long, however, because the Sun's owner's death forced his heirs to sell the building.  The building is still there -- though by modern standards it's not even really considered tall.  

The paper designed a communications network of telegraph, steamboat, railroad and pony express to New Orleans in the 1850s just to report on the Mexican War.  This put the paper on the national stage.

The paper once had news bureaus in 7 international capitals, including Moscow and Tokyo.  

David Simon, Louis Rukeyser, HL Mencken, Gwen Ifill and Jim McKay all once worked for the Sun.

I mostly read the Washington Post as a kid and teen, but if I could you could be damn sure that I would read the Orioles' box score for yesterday's game in the Sun!  I live on the west coast now but don't even read the LA Times much anymore.

Now most of the great old newspapers are a mere shadow of what they used to be.  The fifth season of The Wire did a great job showing the Sun struggling with the modern era.