Blog Vacation 2021 Post #020
In this blog vacation, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes for twenty days, pre-publishing the posts, and not pushing any of them to social media.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: Thursday, September 19, 2013
T-shirt #182 - Baseball is Life
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T-shirt #182 - Baseball is LifeI love Baseball. To my regular readers, this is not new information. If you are a new or occasional reader, check out the categories for Baseball (which I deify with a capital letter) and the Detroit Tigers in my category list.
I love the sentiment on this shirt, but it's another shirt that I am rarely seen wearing either in public or even at home. Partly, I do not like wearing the shirt because the logo is heavy and wearing the shirt is a bit uncomfortable.
Perhaps I should frame the shirt and hang it on the wall. This may be a more fitting way to enjoy the shirt and its sentiment.
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Baseball season is drawing to a close and the post-season approaches. The Tigers lost last night, though Verlander did log a quality start. I know that the Tigers cannot win every game, and yet I still have my heart crushed (at least in a small way) every time that the team loses a game. I was listening to the radio while reading in bed, and I turned off the broadcast when the Tigers were down 5-0.T-shirt #80: Detroit Tigers est. 1901 may be my best Baseball post so far, though T-shirt #115: Chicago Cubs est. 1876 also shares a great deal of good Baseball stuff. I love the sense of history. I love the stats. I love my teams.
But it's all best summed up by this quote from the great Ernie Harwell:
"Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. A carnival without kewpie dolls. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season."I will snuggle into the continuity today as the Tigers play a day game and continue to strive to secure the division win as well as the best record in the AL and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
Grading robot is running full bore today.
Though the following is not just about Baseball, I wanted to share.
FANTASY SPORTS
A quick note on fantasy sports, which I play regularly. I have more to say on this subject, but I wanted to reference it here. I am doing all right in fantasy football, which just started. It does not look like I am going to win any of my Baseball leagues this year, though I did all right and finished near the top in several.
I started the season in six Baseball leagues but ended now with five because the manager of one, the FMLB League, shut down the league in a snit when many of us accused him of cheating. He threw me out of his football league at the same time, but he did not notice I had two teams in that football league, so I can watch him continue to act unethically and be an abusive cretin.
In addition to playing fantasy sports, I pick football spreads with friends. After a terrible year of picking in 2012, in which I ended with a record of 113-136-7, the first time I had been that far under the .500 mark, possibly ever, I am proud to report that so far this season I have a record of 16-14-2, which may not be amazing, but is a winning record which is all that matters.
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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