Santo vs. Nettles

We can probably all agree that it’s better to use social media for good.

That was the original plan, wasn’t it? Create tools for people to share their family photos, connect with people, get the news quickly, that sort of thing. That vision has obviously been corrupted over time, and now most social media platforms are sort of awful, but the original idea was a good one.

From time to time, they still live up to those aspirations. Not as often as they should, but there are moment when it’s not just a cascade of bots, “content creators,” “influencers,” trolls, and otherwise angry citizens of the interwebs. Sometimes we get real information, or shared purpose, or a good deed is done. Stuff like this:

Thank you, Barry Schustermann, whoever you are. I’m even going to overlook your misspelling of Ron Santo’s name because I can tell your heart’s in the right place. Both Santo and Graig Nettles were fabulous third basemen. Their careers didn’t overlap very much because they mostly played in different leagues and Santo was a few years older and got an earlier start, but both were in that Golden Age of Third Basemen that I’ve written about before.