PriorBlog

First things first.  I did a little research. That Phillies Giants game happened on May 15, 1989, and it was an inside the park three run homer, not a grand slam. I had to look it up, because I knew that Schmidt retired early in ‘89, so I worried about the possibility that what I had remembered was not true. But it turns out that the Dernier walk off game preceded Schmidt’s retirement by about a week and a half.  I guess Schmidty thought he had seen everything at that point. I also remember my high school Latin teacher, in an effort to determine how up to date his students were on current events, threw in a bonus question on a pop quiz the day after Schmidt retired. “In which stadium did Mike Schmidt play his last game?” This meant I scored a 12 out 100 instead of a 10 out of 100 on the quiz. Thanks again, Michael Jack!

I would provide you a link to the game, but retrosheet.org, one of my favorite websites, for some reason only has one url.  By that I mean, it always says retrosheet.org at the top, no matter what page you are on. This was not always the case, but it is now for some reason, which means that I simply can’t link you to the game, you have to go sifting around their site for it. The site is great for recovering memory though, that much I have to say.  For example, say you want to know what day Star Pimp played Boston.  You remember that you missed the show because Jeff Gagne’s dad scored ticket’s to the Sox Mariners game that night, which turned out to be the night that John Valentin pulled off an unassisted triple play, and then followed it up by leading off the bottom half of the inning with a home run. July 8, 1994.

What good is baseball if not for providing mileposts within the endless summer of the past?

I’ve been staying up really late working on a bunch of “projects.” I definitely think I am stretching myself to thin. At the same time, there is something to be said about pushing one’s limits, even if you are behind the eightball constantly, feeling like a nearly extinct animal ads an edge to an otherwise dull existence.

“You okay, Prior? You look a little… I dunno.”

“Like I have an edge all the sudden?”

“No, more like a passenger pigeon.”

Speaking of people who have problems, if you are on a prescription of any type, I highly recommend starting a little blog like this one here. Each day I get really great offers on products like Phentermine, just for posting here. Although I don’t need the stuff now (my wife would probably disagree), it’s nice knowing that should the need ever arise.