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Two things happened in the spring of 1989, just a few weeks apart as a matter of fact. April 3, 1989… Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season. This was the day I became obsessed with sports, aided by … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2022
You may have wondered where I was Monday… no post, no forwarding address or anything like that. If you’d listened to Math and Musings you knew I’d been Binghamton bound, and probably figured I was lying in a ditch somewhere. Yeah, … Continue reading
My travels this week took me to Williamsburg, Virginia, a city founded nearly 400 years ago that I had somehow never been to. Williamsburg was capital of the Virginia Colony and later Commonwealth for more than eight decades, its land … Continue reading
They trade Juan Soto and they have to face Jacob deGrom. Of course my hometown Nats, owners of the worst record in baseball, would emerge victorious over the first-place New York Mets. Makes about as much sense as anything else in … Continue reading
Last week on Math and Musings I mentioned that every kid I’d ever talked to about Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg said it was the greatest place on earth. Adults I talked to said it was expensive. Well… they were both right. … Continue reading
According to my sources, Math and Musings is now the 78th-highest-rated show among News Commentary offerings of Apple Podcasts. In Mexico. I swear this is actually true. … Continue reading
On Friday’s podcast I referred to a book by an incorrect title, an embarrassing error with an unfortunate corollary in my own life. The name of the book is Bushville Wins!, the story of the early days of the Milwaukee Braves. … Continue reading
Remember when we were growing up, when television in summer was an endless string of reruns? Maybe a “replacement” show or two if you were lucky. Like so many things now accepted as givens, we didn’t know what we were … Continue reading
For years I thought the word memento (as in, like, a souvenir) was actually momento, similar to the word “moment.” It captured a moment in your life, no? Turns out it’s actually related to the word memory, which in retrospect makes much more … Continue reading
I barely recognize the names and faces any more, and embarrassingly nearly I’m old enough to be some of the players’ dads, so watching baseball’s All-Star game is only so interesting for me these days. Seeing games that are 25 and … Continue reading