The Daily Dose/October 9, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Aaron Judge – The news isn’t that Judge is the new American League single-season HR record holder, but that it took someone in this swing-for-the-fences era so long to break Roger Maris’ record…Those deniers that insist Judge is the all-time single-season champion are high, legally in more and more places…Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa never failed a drug test and played in games featuring baseballs signed by the commissioner…Stop whining.
2. Baseball Playoffs – Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters almost interested to see if teams with almost a week off and first-round bye will be rested or a half-step off…Also, having entire series played at one stadium in first round isn’t entirely fair, though if you want home games, play better in the regular season.
3. USA! USA! – The current 3-hole staple…75 percent of kids are now too fat, stupid, or drug addled to join Army…Citizens still earning marksmanship ribbons at record pace America…Entire country circling wagons, unable to face any viewpoint not in step with their own…America remains far closer to the oblivion that awaits her than the prosperity she once knew, with Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” America has until half-century is out to show it can govern itself before someone comes in and does it for us.
4. Toke Up America – President Biden’s pardonoing of federal prisoners in for merely using or possessing weed fully in step with official Daily Dose policy because it’s not a government’s job to legislate morality because it never works, as Prohibition showed and the current Drug War continues to show.
5. Random Baseball Numbers 2022 – Game times were down by about five (5) minutes…Attendance was down about 2,000 pergame from 2019 and 6,000 from 2007’s all-time high…Teams still used more than four (4) pitchers per game and complete games were the second-fewest ever…Home runs and strikeouts were down…Games are still too long and with starting pitchers no longer a threat to go nine, game is a shell of what made it great.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow, in an upset, decides to take a wait-and-see attitude and not whine. Today’s Diary.
Two of the lessons the years have offered ol’ Sparrow tho, are 1) that initial negative impressions are usually wrong and that, 2) most things work out if you let them and we are going to give this every opportunity to work out.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1701 – Yale University – then known as the Collegiate School – is chartered by the General Court of Connecticut as a school to train clergy and lay church leaders. The first classes were held at the home of the rector in what is now Clinton and the school moved to Saybrook in 1703 and New Haven in 1716. The school was renamed Yale University – after Elihu Yale – in 1714 and is the third-oldest college in the US, after Harvard (1636) and William and Mary (1693).
In 1928 – Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees ties the World Series record for most home runs in a game in a 7-3, series-clinching victory over the St Louis Cardinals in game four. Ruth had three home runs to tie the record he had established in game four in 1926 and the mark has since been tied by Reggie Jackson (1977), Albert Pujols (2011), and Pablo Sandoval (2012). Ruth also holds the record for most innings pitched in a World Series game (14, 1916).
In 1976 – Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with A Fifth of Beethoven. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #28 in Great Britain, at #10 on Billboard’s soul and disco charts, and was Billboard’s tenth-biggest song of the year. It was the first of three chart singles for Murphy and remains his only Top 40 hit. The song would later be featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, winning Murphy, and others, a Grammy Award when it was named Album of the Year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Socrates was living on very little, and yet was wholly independent.
I. F. Stone
The Trial of Socrates
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The two positions Che Guevara held in Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba were president of the central bank and minister of industries.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the first person to hit three home runs in a League Championship Series game? – Answer next time!
