Thoughts of a Common Man

We are not dressing up this year, unless you count shorts and tee-shirt to watch all the great shows that are suddenly out. Lowdown with Ethan Hawke is a good one - that has a second season - we binged all of season 1 last week. Tulsa King is back - Stallone’s face doesn’t move at all anymore - Botox makes people look crazy. It’s not a great series, but we’ve watched it all along. A new series - Nocturnal - is a good one - on Apple TV. Yet, what drives me crazy is that a series will start in a certain place, and then suddenly we go back in time to try and explain the bad guy’s motivation. And then it will flash: “Two weeks ago.” A story should have a start, middle and end, but it seems we get a story arc of: “Start, Before the start, Present Day, a month before the main character was born, twenty years down the line, and then two weeks ago.” “Who the hell is that guy?” Kathy will sometimes ask as we get to the end of an episode. “That’s his long-lost son from when he was a teenager.” S...

Quite the election we have coming up. There are absolute doomsday scenarios unfolding as reports are flying around. This is what I’ve heard: 1). The pentagon is preparing for 90 days without power. 2). There are surface to air missiles set up around Mar-A-Lardo. 3). The military is being trained on how to dig mass graves. 4). Nations are telling citizens to prepare for food and water shortages. We great yet? Now, of course, we may not need those mass graves, but I know a lot of people who are nervous about what might happen because all indications are that there will be a blue tidal wave as Americans hit the voting booth to show their absolute disgust with what’s been going on. The thing is: There’s a true possibility that all hell may break loose because we are being controlled by an absolute madman. He ripped a Reuters reporter for asking if he was sick of the travel. Of all things he bashed the man’s appearance, implying that the man was out of shape. No mirrors? It’s all so insane....

Last year, Toronto knocked the Yankees out of the playoffs and their former slugger, Vlad Guerrero, being egged on by steroid cheat David Ortiz, looked at the camera and yelled: “Da’ Yankees lose!” Whatever. You just beat them in a playoff series, and you need to do that. Pissed me off, and I recall saying: “I hope they lose in game 7 in the bottom of the 9th.” That’s exactly what happened to them, and I called Vladdy a former slugger because this year, after signing a $500 million contract, he hit 9 homers and drove in 45 runs. Karma came for him. So, this year, Tampa beats the Yankees. Judge didn’t play. Had he been healthy, it may have been a different story. Yet, injuries are part of the game. The Rays deserved to win. Their star, Junior Caminero, decided to join the party. “Da’ Yankees lose!” He announced. Caminero was horrible in the World Series and guess what: “Da’ Rays lose!” You’d think I’d be happy, right because I enjoyed watching the Brewers play some great baseball, and t...

I can proudly say that I have never donated a single penny to a politician. That’s not to say that they haven’t tried. I’ve received texts, spam calls, e-mails and singing telegrams asking me to kick in. “I still need your help!” One of the candidates just texted. “We need to make sure that we bring it across the finish line. Evan a single dollar can put us over the top!” Not from me. Money as it stands now needs to get out of politics. Millions upon millions are being spent. And meanwhile, we have politicians crossing the country doing rallies. Today, the sitting president (our national embarrassment) was talking about Arnold Palmer being ‘all man’. He completed that train of thought by explaining that Palmer had a huge weiner. That’s crucial for undecided voters, right? We are watching a complete mental breakdown as every speech these last ten days have included a section about ‘beautiful, muscular men.’ Who would’ve guessed that one? He’s a couple of rallies away from fully coming o...

We have more Epstein file details to discuss. Or ignore!!!! The house judiciary committee broke the story on Monday and it was stated - as simple fact - that the president of the United States was a partner to, and a participant in Epstein’s human trafficking and abuse ring. And then there were details. A rape of a young woman - down to the moment - the location, and what he promised to get her up in the room alone. This sounded like huge news to me and I figured that all the news stations would be all over the story. Crickets. There isn’t any news station discussing it. Perhaps that would be acceptable if they were ignoring it because Jared Kushner was caught red-handed committing treason and accepting bribes, or that he had ordered the hit on the Washington Post reporter. Nothing there either. Instead, they’re discussing the fact that pedo pig the lifelong criminal pedophile rapist made a crack about Niki Minaji’s big ass. This is America now. News literally broke that confirmed that...

The World Series has been great so far. Two hotly contested games between two teams who play baseball the way it’s meant to be played. Speed, defense, good pitching and timely hitting. The Brewers, in particular, are relentless, and I’ve found myself really hoping that they can win two more. One of my buddy’s Dad was a huge Brewers fan, and through the years I would bust his chops about how bad they were. He’d answer with 3 words; “F**k the Yankees!” He passed years back, but I’ve definitely been thinking about Hawk. He’d be loving this. And of course, Bob Uecker, who was an absolute legend, as a player, a comedian, and the Brewers play-by-play guy, Funny man. I recall reading his book when I was a teenager and I always tell one of his stories: “I can up with the bases loaded, two outs, down a run in the bottom of the ninth. Before the first pitch, I looked into my team’s dugout and my teammates and my manager were already dressed in civilian clothes.” He had a million great stories, a...