My day has started out really well, and there’s no reason to expect that anything bad will happen. I may have just jinxed myself by saying that, or at least that’s what some folks believe. Like the old baseball superstition that says, if your pitcher is throwing a no-hitter, you don’t point it out to him, or he’ll blow it. In the late innings of such a game, everyone avoids him, nobody says anything to him, lest anyone say something about the game he’s pitching.
A few years back, Randy Johnson was pitching against the Braves and he threw a perfect game: he faced 27 batters and got all of them out, with no on getting on base. It was quite a sight to see, even if it was against my team. You could tell that the fans that were there were really getting into it. Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to them when they beat you like that.
Well, that’s where my stream of consciousness took me. What about yours?
Stream of Coinsciousness Saturday is brought to you each week courtesy of Linda Hill and this station. Now a word about draft-brewed Blatz Beer. Blatz always tastes like it’s straight from the tap!
I like your graphic art. I watched a no hitter and told my husband ‘that was so boring,’ because there was no action. Ha,ha. I know it was exciting for the baseball fans.
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I found the graphics on Pixabay, where I get all my pictures and graphics (for the most part).
Do you remember ballgames in the ’60’s, where scores of 1-0 and 2-1 were a pretty regular thing? Pitchers dominated the game so much that they lowered the mound, hoping for more offense. I remember Carl Yastrzemski winning the AL batting title with a .301 average. He was the only person in the league with a batting average over .300…
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I can tell you are a fan. Those must have been pretty quiet games 😉
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The games tend to get louder as they reach the later innings…
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Clever post. Nice graphics. And bonus points!
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Thanks! That last one was the most important…
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over my head, not dead
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Yeah, I was wondering…
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I liked the post, even if the references went over my dead. LOL I never heard of the beer on the commercial. Maybe it was a local thing?
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Most of the beers in the commercials are local ones. There weren’t that many beers that were sold nationally.
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Well done, John. That sandwich was starting to look pretty good, as was the beer.
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What do you suppose he was spreading on the sandwich first? It almost looked like jam…
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I don’t know. It didn’t look very good at first.
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Could be ketchup or chili sauce, I guess…
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Interesting post John 💜
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Thank you!
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💜
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Yep. My guys are facing yours. Of course I’m hoping for my Giants but yesterday went to yours! Both good teams this year. I’ll never forget the time Randy Johnson was playing for Arizona and they were playing against the Giants when there was a “bench clearing brawl” and caps went flying. Randy Johnson put a Giants cap on his head!
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Randy Johnson was one of those guys who just looked like trouble. I remember he scared the hell out of John Kruk, and a year later did the same to Larry Walker. He wasn’t throwing at them, but seeing the ball come at you that fast would put the fear of God into you… He was a tremendous pitcher, and it looks like he ended his career with the Giants. Maybe it was prophetic….
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That title was brilliant. Used the words right off the bat, then wrote about the bat. 😀
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You know, I never thought of that…
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