Friday, June 9, 2023 – Baseball Hot Dogs and Chevrolet!

BOOMER SOONER! Here’s to the Oklahoma College Softball World Series for their THREE-PEAT World Series Championship. Next lifetime I am definitely coming back as a left-handed softball pitcher! I will have scholarship offers to major institutions of higher education from the Eighth Grade forward – just like today’s players.

I suppose on my return to Earth as a softball player I would have to grow long hair and learn how to braid it , plait it, tie it in in a pony tail and let it hang down my back. I love the fact that you can wear earrings and full make-up with glittering long eyelashes and nails done in school colors. Even with that black stuff on their face softball players look great! There are not many sports that one can look like that. Seriously, I didn’t look that good on a good day at that age, let alone standing in the sun and running around. But I do have the necessary Bad Ass Attitude required.

The NCAA D-I College World Series regionals and super regionals are currently underway with a trip to Omaha and history. I have no idea who is playing.

I played golf for the first time in three years. Year 1 – COVID. Year 2 – Texas Governor Wheeler Winter Blizzard and Rain Forest Summer. Year 3 – Hip Replacement Surgery. The good news is that I am just as bad as I was before. From the first tee box, I hit the ball into the water. This in and of itself is not unusual, but I usually hit the water on the third stroke after I have had to lay up. (Non-golfers, this means I cannot hit the ball far enough the first time and cannot hit it over the creek on the second stroke.) In the eight years I have played this course, I have never come close to hitting the ball into the creek off the tee. I have two theories. Theory number one. Amber, my trainer, is doing an unbelievable job of strengthening upper body muscles and legs. Theory number two. The golf course moved the women’s tee box closer to the creek. I’m going with Amber.

An aside – A reminder that my strategy for people to read Here’s What I’m Thinking is that if I know you at the present or have known you in the past, there is a 99.99% that I will write about you at some point. My reason for mentioning this is because I am coming for you Dr. No Hot Dog Buns!! You may not be mentioned by name, but you will know who you are. Ponder on the that for a while!

In 1974, advertising firm, Campbell Ewald copywriter, James Hartzell, penned the phase “Baseball, hot-dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet” which became one of automotive’s iconic advertisements. I hope your weekend is filled with a few of those.