This and That

Yesterday Ceil drove Myra down to eat lunch with Mary Hubert and Mary Hurt. Bruce stopped by, and shared an old Camp SPdL photo from 40 years ago.

You know things have got bad in our country when I receive a Word of the Day email, with a unique new rarely used word to learn every day – and the word is “diligent”. Such a rare thing these days to be diligent, that the word has fallen out of use?

If I lose my job, I can always apply to become the new “Beat the Freeze” guy. I’ve already got the glasses.

Did you see the Northern Lights?

Congrats to NL rookie of the year Drake Baldwin. Should get more playing time in 2026. There’s already going to be a commemorative bobblehead next year.

Great Superman TD by SF TE George Kittle, a repeat of a similar TD he had scored back in college.

The other day I received an Amber Alert on my phone, a text to track down a missing person. There was a 62 year old white male that was missing. A sad story, but it was a comfort that in these days of diversity, it was nice to see that an all points bulletin was issued to find an older white male.

I was wondering where Sarah Donuts was, so I looked it up. Roswell near Holcomb Bridge & Alpharetta Highway. Cumming, east of GA400. Norcross on Jimmy Carter north of 85. Duluth at Pleasant Hill and Peachtree Parkway. Decatur. Johns Creek behind the Wendys. Suwanee. Places that I need to stay away from.

Wednesday night at small group my nose started to run. It had about stopped, and I went from the warm house outside in the car, then outside again and into my house, then outside to walk Winnie, back inside, then outside to take the trash. By then I was sneezing something terrible. Then I rubbed my eyes too much. Still weak this morning.

Was so out of sorts on Wednesday that I forgot to make my nightly post to my blog. Had to post twice on Thursday to catch up.

I think the word TILL should be spelled TIL = since it is short for UNTIL.

Great uniform matchups on Saturday: Texas@UGA and UCLAvsOhioState.

ESPN ranked every college QB. GT QB Haynes King is ranked second behind OSU QB Sayin. The top 6 are all Heisman candidates: Indiana’s Mendoza, Vandy’s Pavia, USC’s Maiava, and UGA’s Stockton. Bama’s Simpson is 11.  Beck is 26. Arch is 35.

Got home after the funeral, wearing the Titleist cap that I had just bought. Matthew was walking out with his camo cap, that I had been wearing. A friend recently said “you can never have too many caps”. No so sure. I have so many – 23 different Braves caps. Too many caps to list, not including winter stocking caps. I love and treasure them all. Some are 35 years old. Some may fall victim to the great decluttering of 2026.

Titleist navy

Titleist black

Braves home on field

Braves home old wool

Braves home stretch

Braves road on field

Braves road old wool

Braves road stretch

Braves road wool cap with earflaps

Tomahawk on field

Tomahawk spring training

Stripers navy

Stripers grey

Gwinnett Braves home

Greenville Braves

Macon Braves

Braves 1972 home

Braves 1982 home royal

Boston Braves home

Boston Braves grey

Braves Yankees World Series

Braves 2021 World Series champs

Braves royal lower case a

Braves red snapback (just sold)

Braves camo snapback

Braves trucker cap

BRAVES NAPA cap

Hawks

Cubs (from fantasy camp back in the 90’s)

Brooklyn Dodgers (35 years old)

St Louis Browns orange & brown felt (35 years old)

Yankees 8 panel Babe Ruth cap (35 years old)

Masters

Ping

TaylorMade

Georgia Tech

Clemson block C

Clemson tiger paw orange

Clemson tiger paw purple

Clemson trucker cap

ROY HALLADAY [SABR Bio] put up an ERA of 10.64 in his third season in the majors. With only 13 starts in 2000, his record was 4-7. With the exception of Bartolo Colon’s 3.48 ERA in 2005 with the Angels, Halladay was the last pitcher to win a Cy Young Award with an ERA above 3.20. Halladay’s first CYA was in 2003 with Toronto. His ERA that season was 3.25. He led the majors in pitching WAR, wins, games started, innings pitched and batters faced. He won 97% of the first-place votes. His ERA that season was 3.25, with a record of was 22-7; his MLB-leading WAR for pitchers was 8.1; GS = 36; IP=266.0 & BF=1,071.