Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, Disney and Women Shrieking

The Schloss-Blog is eying baseball and why he doesn't watch it anymore: because this year, strike outs surpassed hits.

Believe it.

And they have every season since 2018.

They swing for the fences. I swing for the remote.

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Is it just me, or are women screaming? A  lot?

• Like in the Google Pixel 8 ad, when the woman screams as her boyfriend takes a knee to propose.
• Like in the Jacuzzi remodel-your-bath ad, when the chic designer unveils the new shower for the client. And she shrieks.
• Like on the SNL season opener, as the women in the audience scream when a clever spoof on Taylor Swift's impact on NFL coverage ends with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce making a cameo.
• Or the Mom in the Chick fil  A ad recounting how wonderful it was to be able to supply a goodie bag of sandwiches for their stationed-overseas son. And then he walks on. And she screams in delight.

What am I missing? Is it necessary to shriek? Is this the shark jumping out behind the boat in the first "Jaws" movie?

Ladies, why do you scream? Men don't. They gasp. They smile. Or cry. Or mutter a "Yes!" under their breaths.

But men don't shriek.

Do we? Guys?

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Disney turns 100 (today). One hundred? How many businesses can say they've lasted 100 years? Not Sam Bankman-Fried's. Maybe not Donald Trump's, pending trial results in New York.

To celebrate, Disney is re-releasing "Snow Shite and the Seven Dwarfs" in a supposed 4K restoration of the 1937 original, although its live-action version caught a lot of flak. The technologically touched-up remake will be available on Disney+.

Jocelyn has a soft spot for Disney cartoon films. I'll have to get her one when the disk comes out.

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Sidney Powell blamed Venezuela, and in good part Cuba and Italy, for technology that changed votes from Trump to Biden in 2020.

Now, she's confessing her lies and turnings state's evidence in the Fulton County, Georgia, case against her and Trump.

You can bet she's hoping Trump gets reelected so he can pardon her. By the same token, can't you just hear Trump muttering "That bitch" under pressure when he heard about it? 

Can he do that from jail?

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Mitt Romney and Oprah almost ran together as a ticket in the 2020 presidential election, Oprah as VP.

Yeah, right, Oprah settling for VP.

Never.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.