Michael

For some reason, in 1992 and 1993, my favorite baseball team was the Philadelphia @Phillies. I was devastated when they lost the 1993 World Series. I remember sitting at MawMaw Eloise’s house in Smithville watching that Joe Carter home run. And 1994 came along and the strike happened and I moved on to my next obsessions - the NBA and then pro wrestling. But in the winter of 1993, parents were asked to send a Christmas gift to school for their kids to open. Now look, we were poor poor. Coloring books under the Christmas tree poor. But that’s life. And we’re okay now. But somehow my mom and dad knew enough about my Phillies obsession to get me a team pack of the 1993 Phillies baseball team. That’s what this pack is. Thirty three years later, it meant so much to me that I found it on eBay and bought it, still in great condition. I’m not going to open it. I’ll get Daddy to help me get it hung on the wall. But I just wanted to share that story with everyone. I don’t remember things. (“Aren’t you really smart?” Well, yes, but my memory about stuff is bad.) But I remembered this and that moment in the classroom in Sulligent and what my parents did for me that day. I guess that’s why I got back into the card buying hobby again. It’s not for personal gain or wealth. It’s just “what’s important to me and how can I find it”. Luckily they overproduced everything in the 90s so this was an easy find. Life lesson: No matter what happens in life - the good, the bad, the really bad - there’s always a moment that shines through, one of those things that you hope to tell your kids and friends and other family about one day. So that’s my story of being a Phillies baseball fan in 1993 and my parents buying me a pack of baseball cards when they probably didn’t have the money to do so. My dad always talks about making memories and that’s why I can get him to do some really dumb stuff he’d otherwise never do. Because in the end, what we have is the memories and maybe the pics we snapped in the process. This is my memory. And I have it again. And I wanted to share it with the world. Momma and Daddy - What you did that day for 9 year old Michael still affects 41 year old Michael and will mean something to me the rest of my life. I love you both and even if I don’t say it enough - thank you for paying attention to the important things and making a 9 year old kid be happy for a day. This will always be close to my heart.

Anywhere in space and time. Anything that ever happened or ever will. Your tree is up again Mawmaw. I miss you. Love you always.

Ok so I don’t have to waste time watching any of the DC stuff. Lanterns looked great based off the clips I watched.

me getting out of bed after turning 42.

This podcast with Paul Heyman is incredible. open.spotify.com/episode/1rR…

Boys, there are some dumb people on the internet and I have no idea how you do this.

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I’ve never told a joke in my life or have ever done the same bit on the same day since 2017.

Paul still has multiple bald spots.

Jinder Mahal was the 50th WWF Champion and his losing before the Brock Lesnar match has sent the business in a downward trajectory that I don’t believe it’ll ever recover from.

Auburn is playing football.

Hope that Maxxine got the $3000 bonus.

If it still exists in April, they should run Wrestlemania in this building.

I do love when New York runs smaller buildings and things look more intimate and different.

New York probably called in a favor to 47 to hold off on the parking lot making until the WWF plane was in the air post show.