I’ve been thinking about what to call my occasional random thoughts, off- topic musings and rhetorical questions. I still haven’t come up with something I like (and that hasn’t already been used by someone else) So, I’ll try out a few titles until I find one I like.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Spaghetti Thoughts
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
*Tap*Tap*Tap* Is this thing on?
Hmm, let’s see a lot has happened in the 11+ years since
my last blog post: blogs are out, podcasts
are in – no I will never bore you with a podcast. Our friend TR Sullivan retired, the Fort Worth Star Telegram retired from
baseball too (no more beat writer or daily coverage) The Athletic retired from
baseball (well, their coverage has shrunk considerably to be borderline not worth
it). The Astros cheated, Vin Scully, Hank Aaron, Charlie Pride and two of my
dearest DTFCer’s left us. Mr. Sterling crossed
the Rainbow Bridge. We spent 2 years at
home looking out the window worrying, then returned to a world that had been
drastically altered. We’re done with
Twitter, over saturated with Tik Tok, fake news is now real news, opinion overrides
facts. The earth got a lot warmer and its inhabitants a lot meaner.
Most importantly: on November 1st 2023, I cried my eyes out and literally jumped for joy, because as Eric Nadel so eloquently stated “may the ghosts of 2011 be forever erased” – and they were when the Rangers, finally, won the World Series.
What happens next? Right now, I don’t care, as one of our Ranger baseball guru’s stated: The Rangers can’t hurt me anymore.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
To Be Continued....
In the meantime: so sorry the Orioles, Nationals, and Reds all lost. As far the as the National League is concerned, if the "big" one hit California today or tomorrow and it slid into the ocean with Giant and Cardinals - woudln't bother me at all. The only horse I have left in the race is the Tigers.
Sorry about Jeter's ankle - but the Yankees use that as an excuse for their performance so far, that really speaks volumes about their "team".
Cannot join the knee-jerking crowd that wants to clean house and trade everyone on the Rangers - that's not right, I don't know what the plan is, but I hope it's a much more specific, strategic and less emotional.
It's always a good day when the Cowboys lose.
I really need to buy a few more Aimee Mann songs off of I-Tunes.
And... this is the week one year ago that I lost Baseball Mom (October 16th).
Sometimes it feels like just yesterday, sometimes it feels like forever.
Miss you and will always love you Mom - love Marla
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Um...I Guess I Forgot...Again
-- waiting for Version 41 of the new and better Rangers team Nolan and Jon plan to pull out of a rabbit’s hat this off-season - Marla
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Friday, October 5, 2012
This Day In History
1465
-- French King Louis XI signs a peace agreement with Charles the Stout
1857
-- City of Anaheim CA founded - and no playoff baseball game was played there that day either
1880
-- First ballpoint pen patented by Alonzo T. Cross
1882
-- Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after the death of his brother Jesse James
1907
-- Philadelphia A's pitcher Rube Vickers no-hits the Washington Senators in a 5 inning game
1921
-- The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time
1924
-- First appearance in the NYC Daily News of the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie"
1954
-- Hurricane Hazel hits the east coast of the United States
1962
-- The Beatles release their first hit in England "Love Me Do"
1966
-- A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi nuclear power demonstration plant near Detroit, Michigan. Radiation is contained (entire story detailed in the book "We Almost Lost Detroit")
1969
-- "Monty Python's Flying Circus" begins its run on the BBC
1983
-- Polish anti-communist union leader Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
2001
-- Barry Bonds hits his HGH aided 71st and 72nd Home Runs to break Mark McGwire's androstene aided record of 71 Home Runs
2004
-- Howard Stern announces he's leaving over the air radio for satellite radio company Sirius
2008
--Dow Jones Industrial Averages drop 700 points signaling the beginning of the economic downturn/recession
2012
-- The Rangers two year AL Dynasty ends.
--- Marla
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
It's The Curse of Game 6
I know how it's going to end.
When the Red Sox broke the curse of Babe Ruth the baseball gods had to find another team to be there whipping boy - and thus we have Game 6 of the World Series 2011 which led to the great collapase of the Rangers 2012.
Sorry Ranger fans we're going to be suffering from this curse for a long, long time.
The A's are the team of destiny. The Rangers are the team destined to self-destruct. -- Marla
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