IdahoBert

Watching Jason announce Arizona v Kansas State in Big 12 play on FS1. Basketball is a pretty fast-paced game and there’s not much time for Jason‘s witticisms to take flight. He can do it all. I love his voice and after listening to him on Tigers broadcasts, whenever I hear him anywhere it feels like I’m home. It’s the Wildcats versus the Wildcats. I’m really happy for this man’s success. He’s a joy to listen to. “Bear Down“ Arizona, as we Tucsonans say. And even though I haven’t lived there in 38 years that’s where my formative development took place. A part of me still considers it home.

Get well Mark.

I loved Marvin. His voice made you feel like you knew him, like you were on a first name basis with him, and it’s tragic how he died. It makes me sad.

I don’t know how I missed this thread discussion about Ernie and Feliciano. I was there at the fifth game of the World Series in 1968 when José Feliciano sang his version of the Star-Spangled Banner and by my recollection, people in the third base box seats where I was sitting were more stunned than angry about it. When I got home and became aware of the news regarding it, I was really perplexed. It makes me love Ernie even more.

Losing on purpose sounds Avilaesque.

Nobody from California was damn fool enough to come to Indiana that I knew of. No, we were hicks in the sticks, making it all up. Making a reference about “Californians“ was a way of acting like you knew something when you didn’t.

When I lived in Indiana merely slowing down at a stop sign and then continuing was referred to as a “California stop.“ I’m not sure why, but I think we just all thought that everything was legal in California for some reason.

Although I’m just a bandwagoner in all this, I’m rooting for a .500+ season because I don’t know any better. And my local FOX affiliate in Idaho is actually letting me watch a game with two Midwest teams. I’m sure simply because of “da Bears.” But I’ll take it if they’re giving it to me.

This is one of these places where I can’t join you all in celebration of Michigan basketball because I lived in Tucson for 13 years and enjoyed the beginning of Lute Olsen era of University of Arizona Wildcat basketball after a 4-24 record the previous year. But I wish you all the best and think that Michigan’s number one standing in several poles is well justified.

I think the guillotine and the terror of the French Revolution is a good solution.

In terms of Vince Gilligan‘s Pluribus it appears he is in no hurry to get going on a second season. He said he’s tired he’s old and if you want quality work, you can’t just grind it out mechanically. So people will have to find something else to divert their minds from reality. Apparently he’s telling us in a roundabout way to “get a life.”

Yeah, it’s low hanging fruit. And I’m not proud of contributing to its harvest I mean, I’m not mentally and emotionally strong, but I’m not paid to produce an alternate reality that other people can identify with and feel that they have “won” or accomplished something. But I wish him the best, and when he was blossoming at the end of 2024, it was beautiful. Let’s hope he can come around and do it again.

Ripped from the headlines: A healthy Meadows could be game-changer for Tigers' lineup I thought he was healthy when he couldn’t hit squat this season…

When major league players make fun of McGonagle by calling him “shrimp“ or asking him “how’s the weather down there?” I hope he just doesn’t go back home and cry on his mother skirt.

So what you’re parodying in pre-analytic terms is that “he doesn’t look like a ball player.“ I can see that being a problem for some.

What are his physical limitations?

If McGonagle is the shortstop, what do we do with Baez? I’m tired of expecting Mr. Glass Meadows to repeat what he did in 2024. I’d rather see Baez in center because he seemed to hit better playing that position. I’m not sure how much worse a fielder he is than Mr. Glass but I’m not expecting his hitting to rebound. And I really enjoyed not disliking Javy last year.

No.

Several years ago, Facebook threatened me with banishment for cultural appropriation like it was a witless eight-year-old who wanted to be “woke“ because I posted a beautiful photograph of a Native American woman that was an art installation at the local botanical garden. The irony is that the art installation was created by Native Americans and I am 1/4 Potawatomi.

Me me I have a pet peeve! Facebook Meta is so stupid. Today when I opened Facebook I got an urgent message from them saying they had removed a picture I had posted seven years ago from my profile and they said it was sexually exploitive of children. And it was was a picture of the scientist Carl Sagan making a joke about science where he says “If science was easy, they would call it your mom.” Which then and now I find hilarious. So here we have Meta hogging the water, and taxing the resources of communities building giant AI farms, and their artificial intelligence can’t even understand a joke that the dumbest person in every room would understand.

I guess if we’re talking about this kind of stuff there’s not much going on in terms of baseball at least for us.

For several years we would drive up to Silver City from Boise Idaho. Silver City is an abandoned former mining town kind of eerie with a creepy cemetery. The locals would get permits to cut trees in the national forest and they were sold as a fundraising project to keep the parts of the town that were historic monuments from crumbling away. It’s a precious memory and if you got there early enough in the day you didn’t end up with a Charlie Brown tree; you got a great tree for 20 bucks