134th edition of My Random Thoughts: Sports, TV, music, food, life.....

July 9, 2025

Remember when sucking water from a garden hose was our summer salvation when playing outside?

I like to mow in different patterns and designs from week to week to keep from getting bored.

Hey, the 'buy an entree and take and entree home' for $10 at Carrabba's is an excellent deal.

Heck of a career: Rookie Year/MVP same year. 9X All-Star. 4 Gold Gloves. 306 HR, 388 2B, 1,111 RBI, 1,063 R. '79 led AL: BA-OBP-SLG-OPS. Fred Lynn.

Tough to beat the look of amazement when you give kids a couple of bucks for a 50-cent cup of lemonade at their curbside stand.

Is Chris Heisey the Reds best 4th outfielder over the last 25 years?

We finally tried Wario's Beef. Now we get it.

Enjoy the enjoyable.

Big Jeremy Allen White fans (The Bear). Can't wait to see him in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. He does all the singing.

When you were a kid, did you ever take the ink tube out of a Bic pen and use the shell to shoot spitballs?

I've never understood the concept of a mop and bucket, and wringing out the mop in dirty water to do it all over again.

I miss making blanket and pillow forts with Casey and Peyton. And the sounds of chaos upstairs or in the basement during a sleepover.

Song I cranked up and drove with the windows down this week: Any Way You Want It (Journey)

Position players pitching in a MLB game is dumb.

We checked out three Columbus breweries: Nocterra, Land Grant and Columbus Brewing Company.

Kid candy I loved: Goetze’s "Caramel Creams"/“Bulls-Eyes,”......caramel with that icing like center.

Are you watching Ransom Canyon? I'm not sure I'd be sticking with it if Minka Kelly and Josh Duhamel were not in it.

The 1981 Paradise Theatre album from Styx is such a good listen.

I loved watching the All-Star game player introductions when I was a kid. It was a first chance to actually see some of the guys.

I don't get making your dog sits in the stands at a baseball game.

Remember using brown paper grocery bags to make book covers in school?

That Short North District in Columbus is really cool. We also walked seven miles Saturday, including the Scioto Mile area.

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