Briefly.
Trivia #1: Which MLB team is NOT in the top five all-time, regular season winning percentage (thru 2017), bonus if you can name the top five in order: St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, LA Dodgers, San Francisco Giants
Trivia #2: Of the top 10 worst professional sports franchises in the 2010’s, there were no NHL teams and only two NBA teams. Name them.
Trivia #3: What was the Harlem Globetrotter’s Curly Neal’s first name?
Tell me, how did they come up with the 20-secod wash rule? Did some scientist get his hands all germy, wash his hands for 5 seconds, test and find the germs were still there? Redo at 15 seconds and find the germs were still there? Redo at 20 seconds and lo-and-behold, the germs were gone! 20 Second Rule, folks!
Along those same lines, the six-feet thing. Not five? Not ten, but six??? Come on…
Did you see the L.A. Rams new logo? Damn that’s ugly! I hear the Pats are coming out with a new one too. Stay tuned.
Life is hard. It’s even harder if you don’t laugh.
If you follow… It’s a start but don’t get too excited about the past three days regarding the financial markets. The DOW Jones is still down nearly 25% from its pre-virus high.
Useless information supposed to fire my imagination: Patriots’ Devin McCourty sees a lot of promise in QB Jarrett Stidham. Says McCourty; “I love his poise.” I giggle….
If you receive an email with the subject “ding dong” don’t open it. They are just Jehovah’s Witnesses working from home.
This week’s sign of the apocalypse: Really? Isn’t every day a sign nowadays.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Every time I see an daily virus update whether from MA Gov Baker or the Coronavirus Task Force, I’m continually amazed by how the interpreter keeps up. At least I assume he/she is keeping up.
On a single day this past week I changed my clothes from the day before AND shaved!
R.I.P. Kenny Rogers (81) – Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, his fame and career spanned 6 decades and multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock and country. He had 24 #1 hits, was a six-time Country Music Award winner and a three-time Grammy Award winner.
R.I.P. Curly Neal (77) – A featured ballhandler of the Harlem Globetrotters. DYK: Curly was named All-CIAA guard at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC averaging 23.1 points.
Trivia #1: Which MLB team is NOT in the top five all-time, regular season winning percentage (thru 2017), bonus if you can name the top five in order: St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, LA Dodgers, San Francisco Giants – The Detroit Tigers (8th at .506) – Top five: Yankees (.567), Giants (.536), Dodgers (527), Cardinals (.520), Red Sox (.519)
Trivia #2: Of the top 10 worst professional sports franchises in the 2010’s, there were no NHL teams and only two NBA teams. Name them. – The Sacramento Kings were #3 and the New York Knicks were #2. Number 1? The NFL Cleveland Browns
Trivia #3: What was the Harlem Globetrotter’s Curly Neal’s first name? – Fred
“So love your neighbor as yourself
Don’t use money to measure wealth
Trust in God but lock your door
Buy low sell high and slow dance more
Some folks have and some have not
What really counts is what you do with what you’ve got”
– Kenny Rogers
And as Lawrence Welk would say; “Adios… Au Revoir… Auf Wiedersehen… Goodnight!”
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