TV, sports, and a potato famine
Is the presidential election over with yet? Just wondering. * * * They’ve finally come out with the fall TV lineup. I looked it over, and I didn’t see many shows that interested me. I’m waiting for them to come out with CSI 50 States. I’m old fashioned, and I kept looking for shows like Mash, Cheers, or Becker and didn’t see them. I guess they’re from a bygone time, but thankfully some channels do broadcast their reruns. Most of the situation comedies depend on canned laughter’and have for years. I guess I don’t get their jokes because I’m not laughing when I try to watch them. Outside of that I find more laughter listening to the radio. Are the writers still on strike? How many years is that going to go on anyway? * * * For all of you sports fans out there I have the news, but keep in mind — I don’t give partial scores. In football the St. Johns Redwings lost to Mason last week, but they’re still having a great season. The Spartans beat the snot out of Notre Dame, but the score didn’t reflect how bad it was. There were no Hail Marys in the game. The Wolverines didn’t lose because they didn’t play (sorry Jean). The Detroit Lions are now 0-3, but by golly they’ve found the solution. All they have to do is find 53 players with some talent who want to play football. As for the coaching staff, it’s like a board game. You can use any number of faces on the head coach playing piece, but the results will still come out the same. It’s Detroit folks. On the golf scene Team U.S.A won the Ryder Cup. That’s a plus, but there’s a minus side to it. I’ve never seen so many straight-in putts in my life, and some of these guys were putting from the parking lot! The only putt I saw that didn’t go in the cup broke off to the right at the hole. That’s probably because of all the traffic around the hole when the players retrieve their balls. It usually packs down the green, and later in the day it makes the cup sit a little bit higher. Thus, a break to the right or left. You ought to see some of the breaks I have to putt through. I always love watching the Ryder Cup, but I found this one boring because of the putting. Can’t some of our local golf courses use a steam roller on their greens like they did at the Valhalla Golf Club? As for the Detroit Tigers, they quit the minute they traded Pudge Rodriquez to the New York Yankees for some no-name relief pitcher. Pudge’s acquisition marked the beginning of the rebuilding process of the Detroit team — he was our leader. To trade him for a relief pitcher, who has been here before and we let him go, just took the heart out of the team. Okay, I hear ya; we’ll wait until next year. * * * My potato farm went bust. I planted 20 hills of potatoes with what I thought were good seed potatoes left over in the basement. They hadn’t sprouted yet but it’s my understanding that all I needed was a piece of potato with a couple of eyes so I cut them in half and plant them. I might as well have been planting light bulbs. The only potato plant that came up was from a potato left in the ground from last year. Even that one struggled to produce one lonely potato. Talk about a potato famine. All I need now to fix my garden is two tons of sand, three tons of cow manure, three bags of lime, three bags of gypsum, sixteen bags of fertilizer, and a pinch of salt. Until the next time . . .
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