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.
Today’s title: Throwing
It Against the Wall - courtesy of
that old food legend: if you throw a strand of cooked spaghetti against the
wall and it sticks it’s ready (see Tom Berenger’s character in “The Big Chill”)
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As a baseball fan who remembers well the 1990’s
Yankees, as they buzz sawed through the first Ranger playoff teams, I’m kind of
wondering if current era of the Yankees have become just another team. The media will always be obsessed with the
Yankees because there is still so much media based in New York. But lately, it
appears to this reader that there are fewer stories about the Yankees and that
they’ve become a bit less fashionable.
Seems to me the Dodgers are taking on the mantle of the big spending,
big foot, big mouth villains of MLB.
Granted, Dodger fans are not nearly as annoying, especially since they
don’t show up until the 3rd inning and leave by the end of the 7th.
(When you have you heard a person from LA talk smack about baseball? There’s
probably more smack talk about movie grosses in LA than there is about baseball.)
There are still big spenders in the MLB : The Mets - we’ve seen how that works
out , my beloved Rangers and we’ve seen that sometimes works, the Braves – if
they wanted to, The Angels often foolishly, sometimes the Cubs and The Lyin’
Cheatin’ Astros. But lately every time
you read about an upcoming free agent (MLB or international) the Dodgers are
always the first name mentioned as the likely destination. (Of course, what did that big payroll and
100+ win season do for the Dodgers in 2023? The Rangers won the 2023 World Series)
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Everyone’s got an opinion on Shohei Ohtani here’s
mine: all those explanations don’t pass the smell test for me. The latest I
read was that his interpreter turned off the notifications so Shohei didn’t see
when Ippei was taking money from Ohtani –okay I guess. But – a man like Ohtani making
that much money doesn’t have a business manager, or an accountant or a team of
accountants that handle his money too and they didn’t see anything or say
anything to Ohtani? Really? Meanwhile MLB is buying Ippei’s story
essentially saying: “Oh my, Ohtani didn’t check his texts or look at the
banking app on his phone – so he’s in the clear”. Yeah
right – MLB is going to do anything to protect their biggest international star
no matter how flimsy the excuses. I
don’t think Ohtani gambled. I do think he knew or found out about Ippei’s
problem and helped him out, but he didn’t consider the consequences that kind
of “help” could cause.
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About the death of an infamous former athlete: now he’s going to have to
tell the truth.
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Thank you FUBO for 2 weeks of Ranger games – but
your pricing is almost as much as the cable I cut 3 years ago – so it’s back to
evenings with Eric, Matt and Jared – which is a very pleasant way to enjoy
Ranger baseball.
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One last question: how long until the local media members stop
saying that Josh Jung is not injury prone.
He’s never played an entire season in his career without missing a
significant amount of time on the IL (still want to call it the DL) which means
he’s injured. Doesn’t matter the reason,
even if it is bad luck he is still injured, which means he can’t play and it
happens, a lot. I agree with Adam Morris
at Lone Star Ball, it’s something that has to be considered when planning the
future for this team.
--- Marla (who is not worried that my team has lost 4 out 5 games this week)
P.S. I’ve never been afraid of my age. I don’t need Botox, or hair dye, or lifts for
my sagging parts. (On a side note: I am
truly disturbed by those commercials where Jennifer Garner is promoting
retinol/anti-aging “stuff” for teen-agers – wonder if her teen age daughters
use that “stuff”). Back to the subject
of age: my pop culture references are generally out of date. So what, it’s my blog, if you’re reading and
complaining go back to your podcasts and get off my lawn!
