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The Daily Dose/June 13, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

CAPSULE OLD BASEBALL STADIUM REVIEW: Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama: Regular readers of this crap know all to well our infatuation with sports history in general and baseball history in particular. So it should not be the Upset of the Year that 1) we’ve wanted to go to Rickwood Field for a long time, and 2) that we eventually made it. 

Hey, Batter, Batter, Swing: The game was exciting Southern League action between the Birmingham Barons and something called the Rocket City Trash Pandas, though both teams were styled, and dressed, as if it were a Negro League game between the Birmingham Black Barons and the Huntsville Stars. The Stars won 1-0, though the Black Barons took matters down to the last pitch and left the tying and winning runs on base in the ninth inning. 

Dry, Technical Matter: Rickwood Field opened in 1910, making it the oldest baseball stadium in the country.  The Barons fled to a new stadium in 2013, but they make it a point to play one game there each year. The Black Barons played there from 

Take Me Out To The Ballgame: The stadium has been remodeled somewhat over the years, but you don’t have to stretch your imagination too much to see yourself there 75 or even a hundred years ago. There is a PA system, but there is not a video board nor are there those infernal video ribbons…There is a manually operated line score in left field, and hanging from the right field roof is an electronic scoreboard that gives the score and has red lights to indicate the count and the number of outs. There wasn’t any music between innings. If you wanted to know who was up or what they’d done in the game, you had better be keeping score. It was, is, a wonderful way to watch a ball game. 

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Final Rating: 1. Rickwood Field is wonderful, a throwback to an earlier time, and we are pleased to report that it is still a moderate dump, with seats that need cleaning and some stray peanut shells that somehow escaped capture. If you’re interested in crap like this – and who isn’t, really – then you would do well to consider going to the 2026 Rickwood Classic. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow does very little at the hospital. Today’s Diary. 

Actually, do as little as possible in every situation is Sparrow’s motto.

We accomplished that mission tonite…

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In 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it crosses the orbit of Neptune. The spacecraft was launched in March 1972 and became the first man-made visitor to Jupiter in December 1973. Pluto was still considered a planet at the time, but its orbit was inside of Neptune’s at the time, and was not the last planet in the Solar System at the time. Pioneer 10 sent its last signal to Earth in 2003, from a distance of 7.6 billion miles.

In 2002 – Scotty Bowman of the Detroit Red Wings establishes a new NHL record for most Stanley Cups won by a head coach, in a 3-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes, a series the Red Wings win four games to one. It was the ninth Stanley Cup title for Bowman, breaking the record of eight established by Toe Blake between 1956 and 1968 and the record still stands. Bowman’s 223 career playoff wins is also an NHL record and this was the tenth of eleven Stanley Cup wins for the Red Wings. 

In 1961 – Ricky Nelson is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final non-consecutive week with Travelin’ Man. The song also went to #1 in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, peaked at #2 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 23rd-biggest song of the year. It was originally offered to Sam Cooke, whose manager turned it down. The flip side, Hello, Mary Lou, reached #9 on the Hot 100 and was the second and final #1 song for Nelson. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

When the hour of the great man has struck he rises to leadership; but before his time has come he is hampered in all that he attempts.
Laozi

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The 1940s had the most Triple Crown winners with four. 

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The Daily Dose/June 11, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

Leading Off will return. 

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow talks to an irate caller. Today’s Diary. 

He’s not screaming, but his voice is raised, and soon he tries to get on my good side by using the F-word…Well, this is a no-no…I am here to serve you, but I will not be sworn at…

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In 1775 – Louis XVI is crowned King of France in a ceremony in Reims Cathedral, about 80 miles northeast of Paris. Louis had ascended the throne the year before, succeeding his grandfather Louis XV and reigned until 1792, when he was deposed and executed the following year. It was the last French coronation until the Bourbon Restoration in 1814 enthroned Louis XVII and Charles X, reigns that also ended in revolution. 

In 1919 – Sir Barton becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown, winning the Belmont Stakes by five lengths over Sweep On. The only other horse in the field, Native Bridge, finished 13 lengths behind the winner. Sir Barton had won the Kentucky Derby on May 11 and the Preakness Stakes on May 14, and on May 24 won the Withers Stakes at Aqueduct in New York City. The term Triple Crown did not come into common usage until 1930. 

In 1977 – KC & the Sunshine Band is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the only week with I’m Your Boogie Man. It was the fifth of eleven Top 40 hits for the group, their fourth of eight Top 10 hits, and their fourth of five #1s, the first two totals including KC’s duet with Terri DiSario. The song also went to #1 in Canada, peaked at #41 in Great Britain, at #3 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s 11th-biggest song of the year. 

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

I have not undertaken to see differently from others, but to look further, and while they are busied for the morrow only, I have turned my thoughts to the whole future.
Alexis De Tocqueville
Democracy In America

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

Billboard’s #1 album of 1989 was Don’t Be Cruel by Bobby Brown, which spent six weeks at #1. 

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The Daily Dose/June 10, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™

Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.

DONALD TRUMP AND THE MANTLE OF IDIOCY: Good gravy, Donald Trump is sending the Marines into Los Angeles. This is pure Trump: create some chaos and then create a spectacle trying to resolve it because creating spectacles is all he cares about. 

Dry, Technical Matter: As we discussed here yesterday, Trump is not governing; he is merely throwing mud on marble walls: nothing he does sticks. Sooner or later, he will lose interest in Los Anglels and move on to something else so he can create another spectacle. 

Fly In The Ointment: There is really no reason to call in either the National Guard or the Marines because this isn’t a riot, it’s a protest. Lord knows LA has enough of them over the years, and local constables have a solid working knowledge about how to handle them. Besides, Trump pardoned the Jan 6 insurrectionists for posing a much greater threat to our country. 

Live, You Are There Coverage: Some are saying that deploying federal troops on US soil is merely a prelude to Trump becoming a dictator. We don’t think this is true. 

Shorthand Me: Trump is a lot of things – ignorant, an egotistical blatherskite, self-absorbed and self-obsessed – but he is not evil. If he were, he never would’ve left the White House in 2020, and we would either be living under a Trump dictatorship or fighting a second civil war right now. 

The Bottom Line: No, Trump is merely a man of zero moral or intellectual substance. No one has ever told him no, and he is only happy when he is the center of attention. He is also wealthy and a bully, and people like this have been finding people to tell them what they want to hear and do their bidding since time immemorial. We elected this, and we knew what we were getting ourselves into, too. America – collectively, now as ignorant as its leader – deserves everything she gets.  

Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually. 

The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow draws some conclusions. Today’s Diary. 

Three things were plain: one, everything was for the kid…Two, he was just starting out on his fat career…He wasn’t fat yet, merely a tad chubby but, paced by late-night snacking of this sort, he was on the way…Three, the dad was just starting out appeasing him…

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On This Date
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In 1498 – Michelangelo receives a commission from a French cardinal to carve what would become The Pieta. Michelangelo, then in his early 20’s, would finish the work in less than two years, which shows a dead Jesus Christ lying on Mary’s lap. It is currently housed in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City and is the only work Michelangelo ever signed, a move he later regarded as an “outburst of pride” and later regretted. 

In 1880 – Charley Jones of the Boston Red Caps establishes a new major league record for most home runs in an inning in a 19-3 win over the Buffalo Bisons. Jones had two home runs in the eighth inning, both off Tom Poorman. The mark has been tied 63 times since, most recently by Riley Greene of the Detroit Tigers this past May 2. The Red Caps are now the Atlanta Braves, and the Bisons left the National League after the 1885 season. 

In 1989 – The Fine Young Cannibals are at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the second of seven consecutive weeks with The Raw & the Cooked. The album went to #1 in four other countries, including Austria and Great Britain, was Billboard’s 6th-biggest album of 1989, and its 91st-biggest of 1990. The album produced four chart singles, including the #1s She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing, was the second of three chart albums for the group, and remains their only #1.

Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.

…in straits such as these, the heart has no tears to give – it drops only blood.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.

The youngest act to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 was Little Stevie Wonder, who was 11 when, as a member of the Jackson 5, I Want You Back went to #1 in 1970. 

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