135th edition of My Random Thoughts: Sports, TV, music, food, life.....

July 25, 2025

Talk of holdouts and contract negotiations mostly bore me.

If the Reds odds of making the playoffs are only 11% (per FanGraphs), how much should they really do at the deadline?

Remember the classic red plastic cups at Pizza Hut?

Sparked by Kelly's interest and viewing, I find myself watching and enjoying the WNBA, more and more.

Why would any fan rather take their chances without Trey Hendrickson in Joe Burrow's 6th season, than demanding the organization pay him? It's not your money.

Flipping channels the other night, I stopped on The Fall Guy. I'd forgotten how cool Lee Majors was in the 70's....Six Million Dollar Man, Big Valley. He's 86.

Enjoy the enjoyable

Yearly trade deadline reminder: When you are making up trades, ask yourself why the other GM would do it.

Ever have that plastic Sports Illustrated football phone?

We've now seen Andy Frasco and The U.N. twice. They are the two most insane/chaotic/enjoyable concert performances we've ever seen. He's fantastic. His band is excellent.

We are enjoying the Bosch spinoff, "Ballard"

I think Cam Taylor-Britt is a pretty big wild card for the Bengals defense.

Ponch! Erik Estrada is doing a CarShield TV commercial!

I used to take quarters on vacation to specifically use when I'd find a rack of out of newspaper machines.

What a bummer when you recorded a TV show on your VCR, only to find out your tape (1) ran out, or (2) it got crinkled up/caught in your VCR.

Do people claiming a lack of leadership with the Reds forget they brought in a manager with 2,000+ wins and two rings?

Remember how cool you were in school if you had the box of 64 crayons WITH the sharper in the box?

I can close my eyes and hear the sound of two video games: Pac-Man and Galaga.

The vibe around Hunter Greene, and his standing as a core piece, feels odd.... almost like it's shifted. And I'm not just talking w/ the fan base.

Following Casey's bone marrow transplant, he couldn't really be out around people for about a year. Just to get out, we used to drive around and look for cows. We'd stop, roll down the car window and make moo sounds. He loved that!

I think I might need a bean bag chair for my home office.

The more athletes find a voice in the media landscape, the more I realize how little most actually have to say of any interest.

Name the last prospect the Reds traded that you wish they hadn't, based on what they went on to do in the majors.

Toto's 'Toto IV' album is a fantastic listen.

You got big time class cred if you had the blue/white Bic pen with four color buttons at the top: Reds, blue, black and green.

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