Briefly.
I recently opened a company selling trampolines disguised as prayer mats. Prophets are going through the roof.
Trivia #1: Who was the first MLB player to achieve 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons?
Trivia #2: The Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong just became the 7th player to join MLB’s 40-40 Club (40 homeruns, 40 stolen bases). How many of the other 6 can you name?
Trivia #3: What is the nickname of Williams College athletic teams?
On this date: September 25, 303, On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France
September 25, 1237, Treaty of York is signed between Kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland, establishing a boundary between the two countries that remains mostly unchanged in modern times
September 25, 1780, American army officer Benedict Arnold defects to the British
September 25, 1789, The First U.S. Congress proposes the Bill of Rights, a set of amendments to the constitution guaranteeing essential liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to peaceful assembly
September 25, 1890, Sequoia National Park is established by US President Benjamin Harrison as California’s first national park and the country’s second
September 25, 1911, Groundbreaking for Fenway Park begins in Boston
September 25, 1926, Henry Ford announces an 8-hour, 5-day workweek for workers at Ford Motor Company
September 25, 1976, Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik, and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which becomes U2
September 25, 1980, Comedian Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on the “Tomorrow” show; a $10 million defamation lawsuit follows and is settled out of court for an undisclosed sum
September 25, 2000, American basketball player Vince Carter steals the ball and jumps over 7 foot 2 inch Frédéric Weis at the 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as “le dunk de la mort” (the dunk of death) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WihbbVEmppI
September 25, 2017, American rockers TomPetty and the Heartbreakers end their 40th Anniversary Tour with a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California, in what becomes Tom Petty’s final performance; the last song played is their early hit “American Girl”
You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon. Yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.
Useless information supposed to fire my imagination: The Green Bay Packers won 14 straight home openers… until last night’s 35-14 blowout loss to the Falcons.
Article I’ll skip: Dark words haunted ‘American Idol’ alum’s affair, mistress testifies through tears
Don’t be that guy: Use your directional.
This week’s sign of the apocalypse: A Pittsburgh children’s hospital doctor was stabbed to death and his wife critically injured after a man allegedly entered their home and attacked the couple as they slept early Thursday. Police identified 32-year-old Elijah Hemingway of Pittsburgh as the suspect. Evans’ wife told investigators that they awoke to a man attacking them in bed with a kitchen knife. She said the attacker was wearing only underwear and uttered about “being God.”
We didn’t know what gluten was, and we turned out just fine… except for Larry. Larry ate crayons.
Trivia #1 answer: Who was the first MLB player to achieve 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons? – Wade Boggs (1986-1989)
Trivia #2 answer: The Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong just became the 7th player to join MLB’s 40-40 Club (40 homeruns, 40 stolen bases). How many of the other 6 can you name? – Jose Canseco (1988), Barry Bonds (1996), Alex Rodriguez (1998), Alfonso Soriano (2006), Ronald Acuna Jr. (2023), Shohei Ohtani (2024)
Trivia #3: What is the nickname of Williams College athletic teams? – The Ephs. The name “Ephs” rhymes with “chiefs” and is a shortened form of founder Ephraim Williams.
The Lord said to John; “Come forth and you shall receive eternal life.” But John came fifth and won a toaster.
Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.
Be careful out there. (It’s a jungle!)
Get more music into your life. Do it!
Happy National Quesadilla Day!
“If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would let it go
Surrender, dislocate
If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away
Into the night, and through the rain
Into the half light and through the flame
U2 (Bad)
Bonus – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
