Stephen King referencing Frog and Toad is why I’m still on Twitter…
Author: fish1964
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Three Inches
Via xkcd of course.
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A Judgian Blast
On May 2nd, Aaron Judge was batting .197. It was probably his worst start of the season slump, and the media was full of “is he washed up?” articles. Later in the season, the press was harping on his personal record 16 game homerless streak. Judge said the same thing during both:
It’s just baseball, I’m feeling fine, and the results will be there.
Maybe the press should listen to him. He’s now hitting .325 and leading the league in OPS, HRs, RBIs, OBP and walks. And he’s hit a home run in each of the last five games.
If you aren’t a Yankee fan, the post title is a reference to our now retired radio announcer, John Sterling. He had corny catchphrases for everyone’s home run trot. I think it started with Bernie Williams (“Bern, baby, Bern”).
John Sterling came back for this final homestand to make a guest appearance announcing, so we got to enjoy this:
The best part was the reaction on Jazz Chisholm’s face…
People can hate the Yankees all they want, but Judge is a joy to watch.
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Messi!
Our nephew got tickets to see NYC FC v Inter-Miami and hopefully see Messi play, so I got tickets as well. We had good seats by one goal, and it happened to be the goal Messi warmed up at.
Management was also on the field, so we saw Beckham…
This free kick was almost a goal (Suarez to his right)
Messi played the full match, set up a goal in the second half, and then the home team made a tying goal in the final minute of stoppage time to send the locals home happy. About as entertaining a game as a 1-1 tie can be.
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New Address
When gmail first came out, I got an email address there. My nickname is Fish so I wanted something like that. Of course, fish@gmail.com was taken as was fish1, fish2 and pretty much every other number at the end. But I tried my birth year and sure enough, that was available. At the time, advertising my age didn’t seem problematic.
Later, of course, it really seemed like a bad idea. But now I’m to that point where I can embrace it. My twitter handle is fish1964, most places where I pick a user name, that’s what it is, including Word Press where this is hosted. The URL has always been https://fish1964.wordpress.com/.
But now I own the domain, so while that URL still works, it will redirect to fish1964.com. I’m not totally sure why I care, but if I’m going to retire and get back to blogging, it seemed like I ought to own my handle.
Welcome to fish1964.com.
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Don’t Fill Up on Bread
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?
Don’t fill up on bread
Robert Hershon
I say absent-mindedly
The servings here are huge
My son, whose hair may be
receding a bit, says
Did you really just
say that to me?
What he doesn’t know
is that when we’re walking
together, when we get
to the curb
I sometimes start to reach
for his hand
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