Don Alexander, who wrote a weekly sports column for the old Garden Grove Journal, once said that October was the best time for a sports fan. At the same time, more or […]
Where have you gone, Connie?
Those old ‘haunted houses’
In the opening of the greatest Halloween story ever, “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” Ray Bradbury writes, “First of all it was October, a rare month for boys … But one strange […]
We asked too much of Ron
Gonna miss you, Ron. But not as much as I hoped I would. As you probably know, Ron Washington has been fired from his job as field manager of the Los Angeles […]
Put a soldier on your block
The latest unique initiative by The White House involved calling the nation’s military leaders to a meeting in Virginia to –among other things – tell the generals and admirals to get ready […]
Can we say ‘kill the robot’ ump?
One of the fast-disappearing charms of baseball is its tolerance of quirkiness. Some of that resistance to rigid conformity will disappear as Major League Baseball in 2026 employs the Automatic Ball/Strike system […]
Honess! I was a teenage (and somewhat older) quack
Not since James Watt, secretary of the interior in the Eighties, shrugged his shoulders about the environment because he believed that the world was going to end soon anyway, has the U.S. […]
Only have to be best at the end
It’s Not Over Dept.: Dodger fans – and Dodger haters, for that matter – have to be gripped by the season that the Blue Crew is having. The defending World Series champs, […]
Smoke gets in your eyes, brain, lungs, T-shirt, hair, breath, etc….
Both my parents smoked. My father smoked cigars and pipes; my mother went through Kent cigarettes like President Trump goes through new tariffs. I grew up in a fog of dirty air. […]
How best to remember 9/11
I saw a post on Facebook about Sept. 11 observances. One comment was “We’ll never forget.” *Sigh* We already have. By that I mean the mood of national unity, kindness and acceptance […]
Another chicken in the race
Here and Then Dept.: Chickens may not find this to be good news, but there’s a new entry in the poultry-peddling business and it’s pretty tasty. It’s called Pollo Campero, and the […]
