Random Thoughts From A Fishing Boat
July 27, 2021 at 11:43 p.m.
Random Thoughts From A Fishing Boat
By Roger Grossman-
There were more than a few moments—more like hours—where our bobbers sat perfectly still in the windless water. While blocking out the sounds of fly swatters defending us against invading deer flies and kids fighting over who was fishing in what spot next to the boat, I found myself contemplating some pretty weighty issues of life (well, ok, not so much).
Some of them were sports-related, and some of them were not.
I’d like to share a few with you now.
Ketchup as a stand-alone condiment on a hot dog is totally acceptable. Too many intolerant people say putting only ketchup on your ‘dog’ is boring and not allowable. Remember, we still live in America.
Have a hot dog, and put whatever you want on it!
Oh, and hot dogs are a sandwich. It has a bun, it has something in the middle—it’s a sandwich.
Can you imagine what it will be like if Justin Fields starts the season as Bears quarterback and it goes horribly wrong?
So much hype and pressure has been put on this kid that, outside of actually getting to the Super Bowl, I don’t see how he could possibly live up to it. Which is not to say he won’t be good.
But he isn’t even guaranteed to be the starter.
I believe that the inventor of the jet-ski water craft hated fisherman. No one who fishes could ever believe otherwise.
I believe that banning smoking, vaping and other forms of tobacco use from event venues is a noble and righteous cause. It’s also pointless if people smoke anyway and no one says or does anything.
I think Election Day should be a national holiday. Polls should be open from 8am to 4pm and that should give everyone plenty of time to vote, and then do whatever they want for the rest of their day. But, it has to stay on the first Tuesday after the first Monday. If you moved it to Monday, people would use it as a three-day weekend and wouldn’t vote.
It also would eliminate the “I don’t have time to vote” response.
Shouldn’t it be a thing that people who haven’t had their morning coffee must wear a sign around their neck or display it in the back window of their vehicle proclaiming this to the rest of us?
It would help us understand why they are acting the way they are, and we can steer wide of them until they flip their sign over to a smiley face after they’ve had the first cup.
It’s not an invasion of privacy, it’s a public service message.
I hate stinging insects. That’s all I have to say about that.
I hate on-field and on-court interviews while regular season and playoff games are going on. We never really learn anything, and we tell coaches that talking to us is more important in that moment that doing their job.
No…no it’s not.
I think spotting the football during a game is one of the most difficult things to do for an official in all of sports. I think they should put a GPS chip in the ball to mark the exact spot a ball carrier’s forward progress is stopped.
If I can slide a hand-held device on a wall to find the wooden studs, they can make this happen.
Couches with seats that tilt backwards are no good, because you can’t take a nap on them.
Someone needs to invent a grass clippings bag that attaches directly to the shoot of your push lawn mower. It fills up, you take it off, attach a new one and pull the cord.
No more dumping, please.
We have pop, we have diet pop and we have zero-sugar pop.
Why don’t we have pop with 50-percent of the regular sugar? It’s gotta taste better than zero and be better for you that regular.
Every play that is reviewed in major league baseball should be announced by the umpire who gets the word from the home office in New York City.
They take the headphones off, call safe of out, and never explain why. We saw the replay too, and we all thought he was safe. The call is “out”…why?
Football is pretty good at this, and hockey is too. Baseball makes us mad because we don’t have a clue what they are even looking at.
One last thing: when you are talking on your phone in a public place, never do it “on speaker”.
If you can’t help yourself, don’t get mad at us around you if the person on the other end says something funny and we laugh. That’s on you…not on us.
Yep, you are right…I need high school sports to start…soon.
There were more than a few moments—more like hours—where our bobbers sat perfectly still in the windless water. While blocking out the sounds of fly swatters defending us against invading deer flies and kids fighting over who was fishing in what spot next to the boat, I found myself contemplating some pretty weighty issues of life (well, ok, not so much).
Some of them were sports-related, and some of them were not.
I’d like to share a few with you now.
Ketchup as a stand-alone condiment on a hot dog is totally acceptable. Too many intolerant people say putting only ketchup on your ‘dog’ is boring and not allowable. Remember, we still live in America.
Have a hot dog, and put whatever you want on it!
Oh, and hot dogs are a sandwich. It has a bun, it has something in the middle—it’s a sandwich.
Can you imagine what it will be like if Justin Fields starts the season as Bears quarterback and it goes horribly wrong?
So much hype and pressure has been put on this kid that, outside of actually getting to the Super Bowl, I don’t see how he could possibly live up to it. Which is not to say he won’t be good.
But he isn’t even guaranteed to be the starter.
I believe that the inventor of the jet-ski water craft hated fisherman. No one who fishes could ever believe otherwise.
I believe that banning smoking, vaping and other forms of tobacco use from event venues is a noble and righteous cause. It’s also pointless if people smoke anyway and no one says or does anything.
I think Election Day should be a national holiday. Polls should be open from 8am to 4pm and that should give everyone plenty of time to vote, and then do whatever they want for the rest of their day. But, it has to stay on the first Tuesday after the first Monday. If you moved it to Monday, people would use it as a three-day weekend and wouldn’t vote.
It also would eliminate the “I don’t have time to vote” response.
Shouldn’t it be a thing that people who haven’t had their morning coffee must wear a sign around their neck or display it in the back window of their vehicle proclaiming this to the rest of us?
It would help us understand why they are acting the way they are, and we can steer wide of them until they flip their sign over to a smiley face after they’ve had the first cup.
It’s not an invasion of privacy, it’s a public service message.
I hate stinging insects. That’s all I have to say about that.
I hate on-field and on-court interviews while regular season and playoff games are going on. We never really learn anything, and we tell coaches that talking to us is more important in that moment that doing their job.
No…no it’s not.
I think spotting the football during a game is one of the most difficult things to do for an official in all of sports. I think they should put a GPS chip in the ball to mark the exact spot a ball carrier’s forward progress is stopped.
If I can slide a hand-held device on a wall to find the wooden studs, they can make this happen.
Couches with seats that tilt backwards are no good, because you can’t take a nap on them.
Someone needs to invent a grass clippings bag that attaches directly to the shoot of your push lawn mower. It fills up, you take it off, attach a new one and pull the cord.
No more dumping, please.
We have pop, we have diet pop and we have zero-sugar pop.
Why don’t we have pop with 50-percent of the regular sugar? It’s gotta taste better than zero and be better for you that regular.
Every play that is reviewed in major league baseball should be announced by the umpire who gets the word from the home office in New York City.
They take the headphones off, call safe of out, and never explain why. We saw the replay too, and we all thought he was safe. The call is “out”…why?
Football is pretty good at this, and hockey is too. Baseball makes us mad because we don’t have a clue what they are even looking at.
One last thing: when you are talking on your phone in a public place, never do it “on speaker”.
If you can’t help yourself, don’t get mad at us around you if the person on the other end says something funny and we laugh. That’s on you…not on us.
Yep, you are right…I need high school sports to start…soon.
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