The Daily Dose/November 17, 2021
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
REELING IN THE YEARS: Recently in this space, we noted a mistake we made regarding acts who have had #1 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 plus their soul and country charts, adding Ray Charles to a list we swore only included Elvis, the Everly Brothers and Billy Ray Cyrus.
Today we offer further proof we are losing our minds: the Atlanta Braves franchise turned 150-years-old this past season and nothing was noted here about it. Regular readers of this crap know this is an upset. Few enjoy baseball history as much as we do and everyone had every right to expect us to be all over it, if not here certainly in On This Date. =
Oh Hell: But we weren’t, not noticing it until we saw a photo recently of the Braves celebrating their recent World Series title and noticed the commemorative patch on the sleeve.
Shorthand Me: The Atlanta Braves started in Boston as the Red Stockings, playing their first game on May 5, 1871, in the old National Association, which is generally not considered a major league. The Red Stockings finished 20-10 that year, two games behind the Athletics of Philadephia, who have no connection to today’s Oakland Athletics.
This Is Dry, Technical Matter, Isn’t It?: The National Association folded in 1875 and the Red Stockings joined the fledgling National League as the Boston Red Caps the following year. They had a variety of nicknames before permanently becoming the Braves in 1941 and they moved to Milwaukee in 1953 and Atlanta in 1966.
The Bottom Line: We are going to save some face here by noting during this past regular season the Braves played their 22,000th game and scored their 100,000th run, something else we would have been all over in our prime. We’re not going to whine about it, though we have made note that the Braves’ 200th anniversary coming up in 2071 because we will be 106 then and don’t want to miss it.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s new uniform shirts are in. Today’s Diary.
Regular, heck, longtime, readers of this crap may – but probably don’t – recall these were requested a while ago, and some research shows they were requested last July 20…
The Bottom Ten/NFL Week 12 – The race for the most coveted trophy in sports – The Dan Henning Trophy, symbolic of NFL Bottom Ten ineptitude – drones on.
…with B-10 pollsters still “strongly suspecting” they have no idea how ties affect B-10 rankings
Owner Genghis Khan glad team back on patented B-10 TitleTrak Radar, but still threatening beheadings if Jaguars cannot follow up 2020 B-10 title with no less than 2nd-place finish on coveted B-10 medal stand…
with two (2) beat downs to Cowboys and a chance to avenge win vs. Giants still remaining, veteran B-10 fan(s) know you disregard Washington’s medal stand chances at your peril…
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1558 – Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England after the death of her half-sister Mary I. Both were daughters of Henry VIII and Elizabeth would reign until 1603 – then the 5th-longest reign by an English monarch – a period History refers to as the Elizabethan Era. Elizabeth never married, is widely believed to have died a virgin and was succeeded by her cousin James I, who was also James VI of Scotland.
In 1956 – Jim Brown of the Syracuse Orangemen establishes new NCAA major and all-division records for most points in a game in a 61-7 victory over the Colgate Red Raiders. Brown had six touchdowns and kicked six PATs for 43 points to break the record of 42 which had been done twice before. The major division record would stand until 1990 when Howard Griffith of Illinois scored 48 points vs. Southern Illinois and 48 remains the NCAA all-division record, done many times.
In 1979 – The Eagles are at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the third of nine consecutive weeks with The Long Run. The album also peaked at #4 in Great Britain, was Billboard’s 2nd-biggest album of 1980 and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. There were three Top 40 hits from the album, including the #1 hit Heartache Tonight. The album was scheduled to be a double album, however, the group was not able to produce enough songs for one.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
And slowly I thought “OK, now it’s impossible. That’s sure. So let’s start working”.
Phillipe Petit
French wire walker
On walking on a wire stretched between the towers of the World Trade Center
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The British commander at the Battle of Fort Washington was General William Howe.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s biggest album of 1980? – Answer next time!
