Former GT linebacker Lucius Sanford has been nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame. Always thought Lucius was the meanest looking football player I’d ever seen: wide shoulders and skinny waist. UGA DB/WR Champ Bailey was also nominated. Also several kickers: Morten Andersen (Michigan State), Jason Elam (Hawaii), Tony Franklin (Texas), John Lee (UCLA), Luis Zendejas (Arizona State), and Sebastian Janakowski (FSU).
Heard that an NBA player has the option to not play in Orlando if he doesn’t want. Some baseball players are expressing how bad they want to play, like Mike Trout and Braves pitcher Luke Jackson. I asked Luke to please keep wearing his striped socks.
Hear where someone at a WWE event someone tested positive, but no one told the wrestlers? I get our management’s concern about wearing masks. Our region has only had one positive case out of 45 locations, but one of our Texas facilities now has 11 positive cases (most are asymptomatic).
Peachtree Road Methodist being saved from vandalism by five homeless people.
See where Aunt Jemima is changing their name and packaging? The name came from a character in a minstrel show. What is next? Quaker Oats could be considered too religious (but Quakers were anti-slavery). What about Eskimo Pie, Uncle Ben, Rastus the Cream of Wheat guy? They’ve already taken the Indian maiden off boxes of Land O’Lakes butter. We have a winner: Uncle Bens will change as well. Some say predictions are coming true: the US is becoming communist. Look out Pillsbury Dough Boy, Michelin Man, and Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Reminds me of Jay Leno’s old comedy bit about the Big Boy statue, mounted in front of the front door to Shoney’s. How many more senseless deaths from people running into that thing?”
Nike is donating millions to Black causes, but is saying nothing about the poor working conditions inside their Chinese factories. Workers are paid peanuts and work long hours, but actually have it better than millions of other Chinese peasants. Adidas is donating millions as well.
See where a citizen of the new nation of CHAZ (or is it CHAD?) who completely duped a network reporter by giving an answer straight out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I rarely hear from David Hurt, but he clued me in to the story.
Tuesday supper was baked chicken, pot stickers, and chopped squash and carrots. Used my own BBQ sauce this time. Nothing on TV. That’s right, I did see that Grizz Gaming was on ESPN2.
Last night I took the northern route home and stopped by two thrift stores. Struck out at the first one, but found a pair of adidas Alphabounce at the second. Back when I was shopping for running shoes I’d considered this style before picking the Hokas. Kinda roomy for a size 12 but they could replace my black Nikes as my most worn shoe.
Tom Hanks is coming out with a new movie about the Atlantic war, based on the 1955 CS Forester novel “The Good Shepherd.” Have you read it?
Big news: I’ve been approved for a new iPhone at work.
Got my in box down to 5 emails. Should have it down to 4 tomorrow
Once during the big Cub Scout gathering at Ingleside Baptist Church my pack mouthed the words to the Alley Oop song. Don’t ever remember practicing. They just pushed us out there to perform it. Maybe I missed the practice or something.
R.I.P. MIKE McCORMICK [SABR Bio] [Obit] his record for the most pitching wins before turning age 23 did Dwight Gooden break in 1986. McCormick had 50 wins before age 23. Gooden topped that with his 51st on 29-Jun-1986 at the tender age of 21 yrs, 200 days. McCormick is widely believed to have hit the 500th home run ever hit by a pitcher in the National League. Certain, however, is that he surrendered Hank Aaron’s 500th career homer. Can thus be forgiven his personalized license plated “MR 500”. The 500th HR by a NL pitcher was most likely the one he hit in Candlestick off the Mets’ Cal Koonce 11-Aug-1968; Aaron’s 500th = 14-Jul-1968. McCormick was the first Giant (New York or San Francisco) to win the Cy Young Award - CYA in 1967. He received 18 of the 20 votes cast. It was the only year of his sixteen year career in the majors that he received even a single CYA vote. The year he led the National League in ERA, he was on two All-Star teams. In fact in merely two seasons, he was on four All-Star teams. He made the All-Star team in two consecutive seasons, but was on the National League All-Star team four times - ERA Crown won in 1960 with a 2.70 ERA. In MLB seasons 1959-62, two ASGs were held each year. McCormick was an AS in 1960 & 1961. Even though not a Hall of Famer himself, he was a teammate with ten who were later inducted to the Hall. HOF teammates: Willie Mays, Red Schoendienst, Hoyt Wilhelm, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry, Robin Roberts, Brooks Robinson, Luis Aparicio. He completely skipped the minors and went straight to the majors to start his professional career. He came to the Giants under the Bonus Baby Rule which obligated the team to keep the player on the team’s major league roster for two years. He did play in the minors well after his debut in the majors.
In May l decided to wear a different pair of shoes every day. Today is day 28: my black ECCO chukka boots. Well I hadn’t worn those black ECCO boots in a couple of months, until today. At lunchtime I was going upstairs and the heels of both shoes completely fell apart. Took them off and tossed them in the trash. Had to walk outside in my socks to get a pair to wear out of my trunk.
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