Briefly. (Roadtrip!)
It’s baseball season.
As Easter Sunday approaches just remember, going to church doesn’t make you a catholic any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Trivia #1: What is Propionibacterium?
Trivia #2: At the time of his retirement, Carlton Fisk held the record for most homeruns all-time by a catcher. How many did he have and what catcher has since surpassed his record?
Trivia #3: Second baseman Joe Morgan is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and what other team’s hall of fame?
It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again.
On this date: March 29, 1795, Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist in Vienna
March 29, 1827, 20,000 people attend Ludwig van Beethoven’s funeral
March 29, 2017, man’s body found inside 7m long reticulated python in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Go away: Dan Hurley, UConn men’s basketball head coach. He’s bitching about not more Big East teams qualifying for the NCAA tournament. Please, Dan, everyone has a bitch regarding the selection committee, we don’t need to hear yours.
Useless information supposed to fire my imagination: See trivia answer #1
What’s that? You want to know about the Red Sox’ schedule? Well, last night they started the season in Seattle on the dreaded West coast swing, 10 games, their longest road trip of the season. They then return to Fenway and begin their longest homestand of the season, 10 games. From August 9 through September 4, they are scheduled to play 26 games in 27 days. Lebron would probably need to rest for 6 or so of those games.
All indications are that the Red Sox are going to suck this season so try to prepare yourselves accordingly. Me? I am beaming with confidence!
This just in, the Sox are undefeated!
The DunKings Munchkin Skewer. Sheer brilliance!
Parenting, you’re doing it wrong. A bystander on Daytona Beach called authorities after watching a couple drink too much and leaving their two children to wander off. When deputies arrived, they found Timothy Stephens and Alyssia Langley passed out on the beach. The Georgia couple realized their children, five and seven, were missing after the deputies asked about the kids. Deputies later found the children unsupervised at a nearby hotel in the swimming pool. While handcuffed, Stephens tried to run from deputies and fell, knocking himself unconscious on the sand.
Good News: A simple blood test could detect colorectal cancer (CRC) with more than 80% accuracy, according to a new study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington.
This week’s sign of the apocalypse: McDonald’s to sell Krispy Kreme doughnuts nationwide. What is this world coming to??
Article I’ll skip: Feds raid Diddy’s mansions on two different coasts in human trafficking investigation. (Scumbag. No need for me to read anything outside of the headline)
Trivia #1 answer: What is Propionibacterium? – It is a particular bacterial strain that is the primary cause of the holes in Swiss cheese. Propionibacterium takes the lactic acid leftover from other bacteria and transforms it into carbon dioxide. The gas doesn’t escape but gets trapped, forming bubbles that we call “holes.”
Trivia #2 answer: At the time of his retirement, Carlton Fisk held the record for most homeruns all-time by a catcher. How many did he have and what catcher has since surpassed his record? – 376, since surpassed by Mike Piazza.
Trivia #3 answer: Second baseman Joe Morgan is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and what other team’s hall of fame? – The Houston Astros Hall of Fame
Husband to his wife: “You’ve been telling me I’ve been wrong for 30 years!”
Wife: “31”
Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.
Be careful out there. (It’s a jungle!)
Happy National Vietnam War Veterans Day!
They said it: “Ray, people will come Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won’t mind if you look around, you’ll say. It’s only $20 per person. They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they’ll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.” – Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) from “Field of Dreams”
“Got a beat-up glove, a home-made bat
And a brand-new pair of shoes
You know I think it’s time to give this game a ride
Just to the hit the ball, and touch ‘em all
A moment in the sun
It’s a gone and you can tell that one good-bye”
– John Fogerty (Centerfield
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