Last night I started watching a documentary about Yogi Berra on Netflix. He and DiMaggio are the only players in baseball history with 350+ home runs and less than 550 strikeouts. Several years ago a national poll named the four greatest living ballplayers: Aaron, Mays, Koufax…and Johnny Bench? Yogi won more MVPs than any of them – and won more World Series rings than all four of them combined.
Tom Brady just ran a faster 40 yard dash as a 46 year old than he did when he was 22 years old at the NFL Combine. Brady says next year he will run an even faster 40.
Started reading Barbra Streisand’s autobiography “My Name Is Barbra”. The audiobook is 48 hours – five times longer than most. Hopefully the majority are her songs. I'm listening at 1.25 speed.
I had started reading Unreasonable Hospitality, by Will Guidara. Took much about the restaurant business. Not for me. One good quote: “What would you attempt if you knew you wouldn’t fail?”
Back in the old days when you went to the movies, did you ever show up at the theater and buy a ticket to a movie, and walk in and sit down while the movie was half Over? Then watch the end of the movie, the coming attractions, then stay as the movie started over again – then when it got to the part of the movie where you had started watching, so you got up and left at that point? Seems crazy now.
At work the lady who sits next to me is going on a cruise. Young coworker Leo is going on the same cruise. And a third coworker Butler is also going on a cruise. Not sure if it’s the same cruise as Leo and Sherryl.
Worked past 6 pm Wednesday night. C had small group so I fixed a quesadilla from leftovers. Crashed on the couch.
Up early to run at the gym this morning. Last day of the month. Lots of work to do.
I hate to admit it, but Ceil’s show So Help Me Todd is pretty good. Tonight at 9 pm. Also Young Sheldon at 8 pm.
CAL RIPKEN [SABR Bio] was the first shortstop in American League history to hit 30 home runs with a .300+ batting average and 100 RBIs in a single season. In 1991, Ripken’s second MVP season, he hit 34 HR, hit .323, with 114 RBI (plus a 11.5 WAR). Only NL SS Ernie Banks had done it earlier, in 1958, & 1959. Ripken’s only year with 30+ HR was 1991. As an American League player whose career began after the advent of the designated hitter, he is the only one to reach 3,000 hits without recording a single DH at-bat. Only after he passed 3000 hits did Ripken appear as a DH. His career hit total is 3,184, 16th all-time. He was the last 20th century American League player to hit safely six times in a game, on 13-Jun-1999
NPR: the billionaire founder of Salesforce.com is buying up land in Hawaii, and won’t say why.
Ukrainian soldiers spotted a UFO in the sky.
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence has been threatening users and demanding to be worshipped. Microsoft is calling it a “glitch”.
Ultra processed food like sugary cereals, fizzy drinks, protein bars, frozen dinners, and fast food is linked to 32 harmful health effects, like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, adverse mental health, and early death.
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