Gimme' a Break

The Schloss-Blog is asking real nice  ... Gimme' a Break!

Been watching too many ads, too many politicians too many athletes and too many media pundits in both sports and politics muse poetically. Time to call their bluffs.

The Trulicity ad, you know the one, for diabetics, claiming "my body can create its own insulin," well that's nice. Except when the daughter of the guy who is the centerpiece of the ad scores a goal in a soccer game, why are all the defenders on the other team just standing around watching her? Literally. She had time to tee it up and wallop it.

Good for diabetes. Bad for soccer. Gimme' a break.

To people saying UCLA took the stuffing out of Gonzaga before the Zags played Baylor, I ask, really? Baylor was the better team. In fact, I think Mark Vital of Baylor just got another offensive rebound. The next time Gonzaga blocks him out will be the first time.

UCLA would've given Baylor a better game because coach Mick Cronin coaches a close game, by necessity, with no depth and no height. Gonzaga throws the ball out there and says we can outscore you. 

Yeah, they could, 35 times in a row.

Not 36. Gimme' a break.

Someone tell the cute drummer in the Kars for Kids ad to at least make it look like she's striking the drums. She's waving at air.

Until then, they're not getting my car.

Well, maybe the 2011. I'm keeping the 2019.

Volkswagen thought its April Fool’s joke was convincing America it had changed its name to Voltswagen.

Uh, not. And not funny. 

I own two Voltswagens - uh, Volkswagens - and I'm neither fooled nor entertained by this complete failure in branding redirection. Gimme' a break.

Seeing where bottled water isn't good for the planet because the bottles are pretty much never recycled. So, bring your own and refill it at a station at the airport, right, when you get around to traveling again.

Except so many airports and public spaces have shut down their water fountains and drinking stations. Can't win either way. And at airports, for those who haven't flown recently, they're charging $5 for $2 bottles of water.

By the way, I've flown four times round-trip between Phoenix and Chicago in the last 12 months.

I'm still alive. Gimme' a break.

Restaurants are reportedly having problems hiring people as the economy prepares to swing wide open again.

Hopefully.

Except now, those former employees are making more collecting unemployment and stimulus checks than they formerly made working at the restaurant.

I wrote about and covered the restaurant industry for five years, getting an inside look at their operations and marketing.

I never met an overpaid waiter, busboy or hostess. It's time for the $15 minimum wage, America. Hello, Republicans. Gimme' a break.

Jacob deGrom of the Mets is the best pitcher in baseball, but he repeatedly has been cheated out of wins his bullpen has blown.

In today's baseball, managers pull starters after 6 or 7 well-pitched innings.

Why?

Bob Gibson wouldn't get pulled. Or Ferguson Jenkins. Or Don Drysdale. Or Tom Seaver. Or Jim Palmer.

Pitch counts and bonuses for complete games have managers making irrational decisions. Let deGrom finish his games. And everyone else too.

Too many situational substitutions on the mound by managers making believe they're doing their jobs when they're really just afraid of taking media and public-opinion heat.

Gimme' a break.

Finally, everyone wants my money.

Democrats, to pass HR-turned-SR 1.

Republicans to stop it.

Every charity you can think of (I do give every year to American Cancer Society, Arthritis Foundation, Alzheimer's Association and several others). Everyone I give to is near and dear to me because it tormented a loved one or took a loved one's life.

I can't give to them all. I can urge you to give to the organizations near and dear to you.

Tell 'em to stop selling each other's mailing lists to one and other. I get more solicitations in the mail than I do important mail, email, bills and/or greeting cards.

I make donations when my friends run or walk in support of those organizations near and dear to me.

I get little if anything in return for my political donations. And if you gave to Donald Trump, you get even less for giving more because he tricked you into donating more without your consent.

Shocker, right?

It's his life story. Well, at least it's not going toward his presidential library.

Both pages. Gimme' a break.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Gimme' a break, Mrs. Robinson.

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