A-List Play Day

After the 830 service Ceil wasn’t feeling well so we skipped Sunday School. W&MC brought the girlies over at 1:15, and C and I drove them to Truist Park for the A List Play Day.

Millie proudly wore her Braves jersey.

They got their faces painted. 

They were proud that they weren’t scared of Blooper.

We ate burgers and fries. Wore me and Ceil out. Back home Millie wanted to help brush Winnie’s teeth.

Falcons found another way to lose. Glad I wasn’t able to watch. Nice throwback uniforms for the Packers. With the Uni Watch blog a thing of the past, I may be forced to pick up some of the slack.

Steelers longtime special teams coordinator Danny Smith took advantage of the current NFL kickoff rules to pin the Colts back on the 25 yard line, and was featured in a story explaining what happened. I replied to the tweet, sharing how Danny used to banter with us down on the beach every July before he went back for training camp. Smith would carry his beach reading materials out to the beach in a brown leather attaché he’d acquired while coaching at Georgia Tech, and he always remembered that I was the Tech grad in the group. My tweet quickly received thousands of impressions. These days Smith is a beloved Steelers legend. Now 71, he had been Dan Marino’s high school coach.

Saturday Ceil sent me out to pick her up some soup at Souper Jenny. She asked if I knew where it was, and I nodded yes. Went in but they strangely didn’t have the soups she wanted. I called C and she opted for a potato soup. Got home and she exclaimed what’s this!? I had stopped at Chicken Salad Chick by mistake. Had to go out again to Souper Jenny, across from the Roswell Square.

Sunday after church I got Ceil a grilled chicken sandwich from Moxie Burger.

Up early this morning to hit the gym. New treadmills and cycle machines, which are nice. After being out of the office on Friday I came back to over 60 emails to go through. Down to 17, but they all require the most work. Then spent an hour with Leo, and 25 more emails came in.

Charles and Joel’s Bellwood Coffee recently opened a new location in Decatur. Friday night Shivonne and Millie trick or treated with the little Norman boys. While Joel and David Norman have wonderful wives, Annie is the sweetest wife and mother.

Sold another pair of sneakers. Liked them but didn’t love them. I need to put more up for sale. Got out more winter clothes out of the attic. Man I have so many clothes packed away in the attic and in other closets. Need to get rid of a bunch of those as well. 

PETE ROSE [SABR Bio] had a record 771 plate appearances in 1974. Lenny Dykstra passed him 19 years later with 773. Rose does hold the record for most career plate appearances, with 15890, almost 14% ahead of second-place Carl Yastrzemski’s 13,992. His hit total, the most all-time, is 4256.

Visiting players who hit a home runs to start World Series games in the top of the first inning. Eleven other players led off at home in the bottom of the first with a homer.

Davy Jones........DET at PIT..13-Oct-1909 G 5 off Babe Adams

Gene Woodling NYY at BRO 04-Oct-1953 G 5 off Johnny Podres

Al Smith.............CLE at NYG.30-Sep-1954 G 2 off Johnny Antonelli

Lou Brock..........STL at DET.06-Oct-1968 G 4 off Denny McLain

Pete Rose..........CIN at OAK.20-Oct-1972 G 5 off Catfish Hunter

Lenny Dykstra...NYM at BOS 21-Oct-1986 G 3 off Oil Can Boyd

Rickey Henderson OAK at SFO.28-Oak-1989 G 4 off Don Robinson

Derek Jeter........NYY at NYM.25-Oct-2000 G4 off Bobby Jones

Johnny Damon..BOS at STL 27-Oct-2004 G 4 off Jason Marquis

Gregor Blanco...SFO at KCR.22-Oct-2014 off Yordano Ventura

Dexter Fowler....CHC at CLE.02-Nov-2016 G 7off Corey Kluber

Jorge Soler........ATL at HOU 26-Oct-2021 G 1 off Framber Valdez

Davis Schneider TOR at LAD 05-Oct-2025 G 5 off Blake Snell

Article: this generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder. For example, you’re not forgetful or have a hard time paying attention, you have ADHD.

Will’s high school classmate Jordan Shetler has started a blog, to express her feelings about the state of the country, church, and world. She works with youth and children at her church in Dunwoody. I suppose a personal blog is the best way for a church staff member to express her views, much better than on social media. We’ll see if she continues to post.