Speechless. 06/20/25

I am a big baby. I won’t grow up, won’t grow up, never grow up, not me, And perhaps the least attractive element of my perpetual childishness (according to my wife) is my insane following of sports. In defense, I exclaim, “But it’s a playoff game!!!”). To which she adds (properly so),”It’s always a playoff game.” Example, we went to a play last night, came home around 11 pm and then I watched the Mets game. After that was finished, I saw the NBA Finals because, hey, it’s a playoff game (and because I’m retired and can sleep until 10). And this babyishness spills over to vacations. Last year we visited Greece with another couple while the Knicks were in the NBA playoffs. I downloaded NBA League Pass (free for a week) and watched 3 games on three different nights (the game was at night in the USA, but I woke up 2 hours before we would meet for breakfast) and watched on my iPad. This resulted in conversations like: THEM: “Oh look at the Parthenon.” ME: “Nice, but did you see that reverse layup by Brunson last night? Unreal!” Then there was that time about 20 years ago or more when I first had an iPhone but didn’t really understand the difference between streaming and talking and looking at Facebook. So here I was, at a focus group in Toronto, with people talking about their cleaning habits. I was bored out of my mind so I surreptitiously pulled out my phone and watched a baseball game. Not only a game, a playoff game. It went into extra innings. Later that month, I received my monthly phone bill for $4,100, when it was always around $60. I called AT&T and they let me slide, “this one time only” and I never did it again. So, while I do empathize with Al’s plight in the comic, John and I think he should get over it. After all, it wasn't even a playoff game.

Our other comic is the first part of a four part series about Al delivering a eulogy regarding someone he barely knows. People are always asking us to “write something funny about…”. Here’s a hint, it’s not going to be funny if you don’t know who or what you’re talking about. So we put Al in a situation where he’s going to have to figure out what to say about whatshisname. More on this topic next week. As for now, I gotta run. I’ve got a playoff game to watch.

Andy and John