It feels impertinent saying anything after Chad's post, but here goes. I was living in St. Louis. My German girlfriend was in San Diego visiting friends. The phone woke me up--it must have been soon after 8 St. Louis time. It was another friend of hers, calling from Germany. I don't think he even as...

I used to see those woodpeckers when I lived in rural Ohio. But what I saw most there were turkey vultures. They would hang out by the state highway, waiting for road kill. Or the interstate, where they were likely to become roadkill themselves. One time I found a dismembered raccoon that they'd dro...

Does he love me? i want d'Arnaud.
How can I tell if he loves me so?
(Is it in his eyes?) Oh no, you'll be deceived.
(Is it in his eyes?) Oh no, you'll make believe.
If you want d'Arnaud, if he loves you so
It's in his kiss (That's where it is).

Timothy Leary's dead
No, no, no, no, he's outside, looking in
Timothy Leary's dead
No, no, no, no, he's outside, looking in
He'll fly his astral plane
Takes you trips around the bay
Brings you back the same day
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary

Damion Easley, Damion Easley
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, Damion Easley

When you're alone and life is making you lonely You can always go Don Hahn When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry Seems to help, I know Don Hahn Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty How can you lose? The light's so m...

Well, I couldn't sleep a wink for tryin'
I saw the risin' of the sun
And all night long my heart was cryin'
You're the one, you're the one
You're the one, you're the one
Youngblood, Youngblood, Youngblood
I can't get you out of my mind

Ozzie Smith: 15 All-Star selections, 28 home runs, .536.

I enjoyed his broadcast a lot. The man was steeped in old-time show business. And he did the best Groucho.

At the coffee shop once, one of the servers told me that the staff had been trying to decide who I looked like. The consensus was Jeff Daniels. That would be older, distinguished Jeff Daniels, I assume, not Something Wild or Dumb and Dumber Jeff Daniels.

Eeyore

Julie of the Wolves

Plus Harry Krause didn't blow out his arm. The major league hitters figured him out, but he went on to win 250 games in the PCL. Pitched until he was forty, throwing 200, 300, even 400 innings.

I saw it in the theater. I walked out maybe halfway through. I don’t know if it was terrible, but it was all wrong. There was no sense of what was interesting about Moe Berg. Paul Rudd wasn’t like him at all, physically—Berg was a big, jowly, five o’clock shadow sort of man, a cultured sophisticate ...

They're Hunter Pence pants.

The Mets’ NY was better than the Yankees’ when Christy Mathewson wore it, and it’s better now.

I had my first shot back in March. A couple of weeks later I had a doctor's appointment scheduled, just my regular checkup, and I called to say I had a head cold so maybe I should reschedule. They advised me to take a Covid test. I did, and I had it. And I was out of isolation in time to get my sec...

I had my first shot back in March. A couple of weeks later I had a doctor's appointment scheduled, just my regular checkup, and I called to say I had a head cold so maybe I should reschedule. They advised me to take a Covid test. I did, and I had it. And I was out of isolation in time to get my seco...

John Henry Williams: https://www.baseball-reference.com/regi ... llia012joh

Breakout: .330, 35, 120. I remember his father, a backup linebacker who came up big in one particular defensive series against Maryland in 1977, and I've believed in the kid ever since. Even though he wouldn't be born for another 16 years.

He takes a leave of absence in the summer, heads off to Paris to hang out with Mike Fitzgerald and Blake Stein and Matt Joyce, goes down to Pamplona for the bullfights, drinks too much, embarrasses himself, comes back to the States to sober up, gets into a couple of games in September, spends the of...

The ducks make me happy.

I woke up this morning repeating this so I wouldn't forget it. It was from the dream I'd been having:

The only person in the world who can't come home and put on some Van Morrison to relax is Van Morrison. Maybe that's why he's so crabby.

I learned from the Athletic's Tim Britton that the Reds have never had a Cy Young winner, which makes sense if you stop to think about it, but still. Closest to hardware? No. 41 in strike-sundered 1981. Bob Purkey was robbed. It should have been him, not Drysdale, in 1962. Maybe he'd have gotten mo...