Bring on the bats and balls.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,363 

13 Hours: 

 

 

It was a very good game last night. Lots of great action and not many penalties until that one that some say changed the outcome. But most agree that a game is never lost on one penalty. I thought it looked like a Philly runaway for a while. But the magician sucked it up and the rest of the team woke up and played their hearts out. And I didn’t overeat. So, that was good. 

 

I may be an old Dinosaur, but last night’s halftime spectacle was monotonous with droning “music” that never changed and mass dancing similar to every other show in SB history. As one reader said, the show was further proof of societal decline and the deteriorating culture. The writhing on stage would have been x rated a short while ago.  

 

And I don’t remember laughing out loud once at a commercial, and frankly I didn’t know what they were trying to sell most of the time. And let’s hope Budweiser has not implanted new impulses in the minds of Americans that dancing on a golf course is cool and hip. 

 

Hell, maybe I am a Dinosaur, and dancing on the will make golf more fun. If you think that is fun. 

 

But tomorrow is Valentines Day and love will be there whether you are a dinosaur or a metrosexual.  

 

The best symphony for Valentines Day is Rachmaninoff's’ 2nd. It is lush and fulfilling and can carry you up into the clouds. 

 

Why do Seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over the bay, they would be bagels. 

 

The Question: 

You should know this easily -- Who was Bruno Richard Hauptmann? 

 

The Headlines: 

--KC Beats Philadelphia for SB Championship; Mahomes Overcomes Injury and Team pulls Together.; Andy Reid Announces Retirement This Morning. 

--Markets Open Mixed, Move Higher in Mid-Morning; Last Week Was Worst in 2023 for S&P; WS Waits for Key Data -- CPI Due Tomorrow, Fed Retail Report Wednesday and PPI Thursday. 

--US Jets Take Down Fourth UFO on Sunday; Nobody Knows What the Last Two Are. 

--Moldavian President Warns of Russia Plot to Topple Government. 

--Street Shootings In Chi and NYC Rise Over the Weekend. 

 

As I said, I was not moved by any of the SB commercials, and often I was confounded wondering exactly what they were selling. One trend I noticed was companies using more and more celebs. That may have been effective for some watchers, but I really didn’t know who I was looking at almost all of the time..  

 

Honestly, I remember Ham and Brie next to the Mayo, but the Maya-Maya commercial (M&M) left me bewildered. I liked John Travolta and friends singing “Summer Nights”. I don’t remember the advertiser. Somebody told me I was watching Bradley Cooper and his mom in a commercial. Serena Willams was in two commercials. The first one was some motivational thing that didn’t make it and I forgot the other. I remember the Blue Moon Beer commercial and wondered why they gave so much airtime to their rivals. I remember Will Farrel l doing something for Netflix, And I didn’t even know the complex recording studio commercial was for Uber. That was total headscratcher. So, basically, I’m saying, my wallet is safe from impulse buying due to great commercials.  

 

Good news! NASCAR comes back big next Sunday with Daytona 500. Fox will be carrying the race and I’ll be there. Personally, I love to watch competitions of any kind, from cooking shows to sports to quiz shows. I like to watch peoepl pull themselves up from the depths to win it all. I love the human spirit. 

 

Did you know that the SB pregame opened with the Black National Anthem? 

 

Uh Oh. The Red Sox start this week and nobody is talking about them or at least not the way they have in the past the past when the beloved sox were “it” in Boston. We must be really bad already before we started, or football has just become too dominant.  

 

Let’s be clear about one thing, the government does not create jobs, innovators and risk takers and investors do. The Gov just creates or squashes the environment in which companies operate.  Now socialist Countries legislate jobs and to many in this country that is becoming a good idea. And that faction would love to make it harder for companies to operate efficiently.  

 

There are four or five days when I will never consider going into a restaurant and one without question is Valentines Day. Just eat Cheetos in bed and be happy.  

 

FOX Baseball has announced the Hiring of another Ya, Ya, Ya, (Well, you know who I mean) for their baseball TV panel. The two may have been great players but after all, they Ya, Ya, Ya...   and what do they know about my red Sox heart or the Cleveland Indians souls. Whoops, I mean Guardians, whatever that is.  

 

A news squib today says the Pentagon has not ruled out anything in their analysis of the shot down UFO’s including "Extraterrestrials”. Yikes!  

 

By the way, I've been told that the dancing on the golf course commercial was to have evoked memories of “Caddyshack” for me. I missed it entirely.  

 

The Answer: 

Bruno was the man who murdered the Lindburgh son. 

 

Well, you got several hours left to get ready for Valentines Day and not make a fool of yourself. Or actually making a bigger fool of yourself by picking the wrong flower, jewel or restaurant. Valentine's Day is the crap game of love.