Man reads newspaper under lamp
John Koch, “The Reader” 1935

Tag: Baseball

  • Another thing about the Brewers:

    They’re fun to watch! A thrill to hear “Let’s go Brewers” chanted at Wrigley Field during Monday’s 7-0 beatdown of the Chicago Cubs. On the way to the best record in all of Major League Baseball, the Crew has scored the most runs; their 645 are 2 better than the Los Angeles Dodgers, 9 better…

  • Put me in coach, I’m ready to second guess

    Bob Uecker isn’t only one not getting any younger! As a lifelong sofa coach, we have found that screaming at the television helps. The indentured servants of Blaska Stately Manor began screaming at TBS Tuesday 10-12-21 around 5:30 p.m. We started screaming when we saw Aaron Ashby take the mound in the fifth inning, Brewers…

  • Play Base Ball, America

    Hope you watched the White Sox play the Yankees next to the Field of Dreams in the middle of Iowa cornfields Thursday evening 08-12-21. Worth it just to see the players emerge from the corn surrounding the outfield. No Shoeless Joe Jackson but the same reverence for the game of Base Ball. (Pronounced in two…

  • Trump, the Nobel Prize, UW-StP, Brewers, and Bucky Badger are today’s click bait

    This, that and the other thing The snooty art docent here at the Stately Manor, having been outbid at Christie’s auction of David Rockefeller’s art estate, has chosen this image from BBC for our computer screen saver. The composition is evocative — it is an ode to joy, a paean to freedom, a visual song…