Posted on 09/10/2018 8:01:12 PM PDT by boycott
To sell the feathers probably
Or because it was eying someone’s chickens.
Predators don’t last long here if they get after my chickens.
“No reason to go all CSI.”
While I have rarely watched those kinds of TV shows, the Tracker in me cannot help it. My brain is just wired this way.
Perhaps I should roam the country solving crimes against nature? ;^)
I did some research on falconry and found that hobby to be the most regulated activity in the country.
For example, you have to serve a two year apprenticeship with a master falconer. And in the state of Michigan, the state only allows the capture of two chicks with the permits being issued to licensed falconers by lottery.......
The state and Federal laws don’t seem to have been effective in protecting this particular hawk.
Less than 20 days till bow season for most states, especially southern. I have been practicing/tuning, just not on live animals.
We all need a hobby. ;-)
Hawk Harrelson, the man, the myth, the legend. He gone from the booth from the last time today, but he’ll never be gone from the hearts of White Sox fans.
Red Sox, too.
Played RF after Tony C got hit in eye
I remember
Growing up listening to Harry Caray call Cubs games, I thought that he was the ultimate “homer,” openly rooting for the home team with almost no attempt at impartiality. But then WGN started broadcasting White Sox games with Hawk Harrelson doing the play-by-play ... goodness gracious. The Hawk made Harry sound like an uninterested observer.
I hear the Hawk do the Cubs-White Sox game on Saturday, and he was thanking all of the members of the crew. I had no idea that it was his penultimate broadcast. I wish him well in his new career as an “ambassador” for the White Sox (he wants to do it at least until 2020 in order to be involved in organized baseball in eight different decades, something accomplished only by Connie Mack and a handful of others), and hope that he returns to the booth from time to time.
But, for the record, Harrelson is only the third greatest Hawk in Chicago, after (i) the Wind and (ii) Andre Dawson from 1987-1992.
Believe it or not I never heard that the Chi wind was referred to as “The Hawk” or “Hawkins”.
Anyway, being a stanch partisan I greatly appreciated Hawk’s style, I was glum when the other team scored so why shouldn’t the announcer be too! And his stories were just the best. He may not have been a great player and as General Manager he fired Tony LaRussa but as a broadcaster? Aces.
Needless to say *I* think he belongs in Cooperstown. He invented the batting glove! Whether that’s true or not the story alone is hall-worthy. ;d
I first learned about the Hawk Wind from the song “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”:
https://genius.com/Steve-goodman-a-dying-cub-fans-last-request-lyrics
I’d have to say, this is my favorite Hawk call. :) From 5 years ago today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L266R9RBvNw
I think I remember that one. ;-p
This ball game is ovuh....... <...Loss
THIS BALL GAME IS OVUH!!!! <....Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdhveixpV24
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