* Favorite random baseball player....
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Steve Dalkowski
- raging alcoholic
- hardest throwing pitcher of all time?
- basis for bull durham's nook laloosh
- 1960 = 170 innings, 5.14 era, 262 ks, 262 walks
* I haven't had this much fun watching baseball in decades. Certainly since the '99 season, and probably since the 1990 season. My old lady has gotten comfortable with the concept of going to bed early while I stay up drinking beer and shouting at the television.
The roster is stacked. The payroll is under control. The farm system is talented. The best is yet to come.
Sorry for having fun.
* Made the 1-hour drive over Independence Pass last night to go see Morgan Wade at Belly Up in Aspen.
- used to open for Luke Combs, Jason Isbell, etc
- paid an extra $50 for a pre-show meet-and-greet, which was really cool. short acoustic session, a little q&a, photos.
- venue probably held 2-300 people, max.
- tvs in the place were showing promos for their past shows, including.........Here Come The Mummies
- she got sober 6-7 years ago, got super into working out, and is now signed up to run her first 100-miler. that's cool.
* Anyone want to come up and hike the Maroon Bell 4 Pass Loop in August? Holla atcha boy.
* You know who's turning out to be a very fine pitcher? Brandon Williamson, who also sucks and is terrible -- but looks like he can be a really nice 4-5th starter.
* Back in the day at O'Charley's there was a regular who lived down the street in the dumpy apartments on Malabu Drive. About 5-foot-7, 250 pounds. Had a garbage job. Ugly dude. No real friends or love life. Nice enough guy but used to be a "huge UK fan," then abandoned ship and decided to start rooting for Duke. I think he had a kinesiology degree (and maybe even a Masters) from UK, and was literally pissed off that his former classmate Sean Sutton ended up with a big college coaching gig, while he made $9/hour at the phone company. He swore he knew more about basketball than Sutton did, and it wasn't even close.
So the dude walked around pissed off at the world and just loved playing the part of the grouchy *** old man who openly rooted AGAINST the Cats -- his supposed former favorite team.
Just reminds me so much of UKO. For whatever reason he's just pissed off at the world and revealed that anger thru sports contrarianism.
* Tyler Childers is just so incredibly freaking talented. So clever and smart and such an awesome songwriter. Weird stuff happens when you sign with a major label, though. So whatever direction his career takes, I just hope he's in command and not some suit in Manhattan.
* Next live show for me --> Turnpike Troubadours at Billy Bob's.
* Dry cleaners. Gas station. Subway. Retail stores.
I swear, most places just add the tipping option because it's a numbers game. SOMEONE is gonna be dumb enough to accidentally throw 20% on there. Not gonna be me, though.