Wonderful Reunion

After yesterday’s post about The Baseball Project, I embarked on one of those inevitable Internet quests for more information on the band. That led me to this amazing story about the show in Athens, Ga., earlier this week. After a…

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Nice Addition

When Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game earlier this year, I had last year’s album by The Baseball Project in heavy rotation. That immediately brought one question to mind – how would they work Buehrle into the song “Harvey Haddix.”…

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

All good relationships have to come to an end. I know this is for the best, but I thought we had another five to 10 years to go before things fell apart. I remember how one word came into my…

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A Study in Contrasts

A week or so ago, New York anchorman Ernie Anastos dropped an f-bomb on live television. The picture below shows him and co-anchor Dari Alexander reacting after Anastos told their weatherman to “keep (having a loving and committed physical relationship…

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Big Brother Rewind

I managed to go the entire season of “Big Brother” this past summer without writing about the show. Part of it is possibly because I, like many other fans, feel a little embarrassed about enjoying the show as much as…

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A Stroke of Luck

Thirty years ago this month, something momentous happened in my life. I had a stroke of luck which would help define me up until this day. I got strep throat. More specifically, I got sent home from school with strep…

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You Just Have To

I hate the phrase “have to” as in “you have to watch this show” or “you have to find this funny.” A former co-worker would always respond to comments like that with a surly, “I don’t have to do anything.”…

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For Goodness Sake!

The FCC is looking once again at the “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl 374 years ago. They still maintain that the nanosecond of Janet Jackson’s nipple was obscene. Really? We’re still on this? We’re still worried about a brief…

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R.I.P. Larry Gelbart

I feel very lucky that I grew up watching M*A*S*H almost as it happened. My family had an almost obsession with the show. In fact, I have almost every episode in my basement – on video tape from back in…

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All Talk

When I posted something on Facebook last week about the new sports betting law in Delaware, one friend replied, “regulardegenerategambler.com.” The post cracked me up for a couple of reasons. First off, I knew I had kind of belabored the…

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