130th edition of My Random Thoughts: Sports, TV, music, food, life.....

May 30, 2025

Former Reds manager Dave Miley has started texting me his Random Thoughts! Love it.

This weather really, really bites.

We are day tripping to Waynesville, OH. I think we are actually going to check out the rodeo Saturday night!

I was never a big Oreo cookie guy. They got stuck in my braces and I looked a mess.

Three years into a rebuild that started at the 2022 trade deadline, the Reds started a corner outfield of Connor Joe and Garrett Hampson this week.

Peyton and a friend did a day trip to Ft. Lauderdale last weekend. Their flight home was canceled. She slept overnight in the airport. I did not sleep.

I wish TV play-by-player announcers would understand that we can see it. We don't need words for every action on a play.

Will Clark had a beautiful swing and a heck of a career.

Walking up the ramp inside of Wrigley Field and seeing the ivy for the first time is pretty incredible. I've also watched games from the rooftops, but never from the bleachers.

I was a big fan of The Wild, Wild West and James West.

One summer as a kid, I went door-to-door collecting family information for a weekly neighborhood newspaper. It was a handwritten one sheet. My dad made copies at work. I put them in mailboxes.

I've had a cough and been hacking stuff up (apologies for the description/and I refuse to use the term phlegm) for three weeks.

I've never been to The Memorial golf tournament. I need to go.

Did Lucho Acosta really think he'd force his way out of town, and then return to applause?

The Ludlow Bromley Yacht Club is back, six years after it was destroyed by a runaway barge. I can't wait to get back.

'I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm," What a great line in 'Careless Whisper', by Wham.

All nine of the Bengals Ring of Honor nominees deserve to get in. All nine will eventually get it. This shouldn't be a waiting game. It's about recognition. The Bengals created a backlog with too small of an inaugural class. They will never catch up, without change/expansion.

I have written one check in the last year. It was to a high school friend in our fantasy baseball league that refuses to join the rest of us with PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and Cash App.

Wait, my monthly digital subscription to the Enquirer is going from $9.99 to $19.99?

I've known Kelly for over 30 years. She has disappointed me once. She refused to watch The Sopranos with me.

Nick Krall better be careful, otherwise, a new President of Baseball Operations might just become the next shiny object ownership dangles in front of the fans.

I've felt a genuine sense of community/pride/connection when attending games for three teams: Pacers, Fever and UD Flyers.

I root for Trey Hendrickson, because I root for the Bengals to have to do something they don't want to do.

Did you ever have one of those green plastic framed/plastic windowed Ant Farms? That was actually a thing. Weird.

"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. Never thought I could be so free." The theme song from what TV show?

In putting together my nightly 'Tracking the Machine' segment, I noticed the Reds were 2nd in MLB attendance in 1975 (28,588) and led MLB in 1976 (32,466).

I'm basically mowing the yard twice a week. I've already mowed the yard more than all of last summer!

Don't worry about things you don't care about.