KINDRED MUSINGS
Poems, Puns, Videos, Anecdotes, Stories, Books, and Photos
We all have a window we look out from. Some times we meander. This place here is intended to serve as a hearth, or a park, a gathering place whether you are alone or with one or more others.
Ron Sokol, longtime newspaper columnist, blogger and author, welcomes any and all civilized as well as creative comments and remarks from you.
BELIEVING
Well, have you heard about Max Muncy? Didn't do so well with the Oakland Athletics. Not quite a spring chicken... Dodger management saw something, and with injuries taking out players right and left, they brought Max up from the minors earlier...
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY
Fireworks or possible little stomach aches, or both, play ball everybody!
BASEBALL PRAYER
If there were a baseball prayer - not those that already exist mind you, but a new one, how would it go? What would you say? First, would the prayer be to God? If so, is God dressed in an Umpire's outfit? Would both hands have to be wearing baseball...
BASEBALL OR FOOTBALL?!?!?!
Me thanks George Carlin makes the choice pretty simple... jest sayin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhN1ExFCXNA
WALKER, HALL OF FAMER
Nostradamus did not, to my knowledge, predict anything baseball. Well, then, you know, and I know, this shows his very substantial limitations. On the other hand, the one, the only, the inimitable Dodgerdamus has predicted, made the declaration, and...
MAJOR LEAGUE
Ah, excuse me dad, pardons momma, but I ain't no little leaguer! https://www.facebook.com/thebsbking/videos/922998194555203/UzpfSTEwMDAwMjE1NzUwNzkyMToxMTYyMDQ2NTAzOTMyNTA4/
NICKNAMES, GET YOUR NICKNAMES! FRESH ROASTED NICKNAMES!
Etymology; The compound word ekename, literally meaning "additional name", was attested as early as 1303. This word was derived from the Old English phrase eaca "an increase", related to eacian "to increase". By the 15th century, the misdivision of the...
BASEBALL IN HEAVEN
Two old men had been best friends for years, and they both live to their early 90’s, when one of them suddenly falls deathly ill. His friend comes to visit him on his deathbed, and they’re reminiscing about their long friendship. The friend says, “Listen,...
DANCING FIRST BASE COACH!
Sound on fans! Click the link, then just click the screen. https://www.facebook.com/coachlisle/videos/2274447229283641/UzpfSTEwMDAxNDkzMjQyMjYyNToyNjYzMjE3MTQxMDcxOTA/ Would you believe most of this is just to tell the batter to bunt?
MIGHTY CASEY – EXTRA INNINGS
One name alone is some times enough to conjure up an image: Kobe, Lebron, Arnie, Martina, Oprah, Raquel. Human or otherwise. Think Lassie, Secretariat, Jaws… There are stories, myths, legends, moments frozen in time that have meant so much to so many, for...
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