The Nashville Royals are off to a decent start. I’m looking forward to seeing the renderings of their stadium off Broadway. A Garth Brooks guitar shaped scoreboard or something in centerfield.
I’m joking, I don’t think the Royals are leaving, but I do think that John Sherman’s wife should take a break from Facebook.
The Royals and Chiefs are in the fan business, and they looked like fish out of water during this election. Just clueless to the fact that many people don’t care about sports teams and certainly don’t care about the business of sports teams. They are used to having a rabid support group of fans that overwhelms any of the negative, but politics don’t work that way.
I think they will be back to the ballot box soon with a more refined and detailed plan and will win the next one. They let the narrative get taken away from them during this election and were playing catch up from the get-go. The “no” group is unlikely to maintain their enthusiasm into multiple elections.
In case you thought you were going crazy, you’re not. Easter was really early this year. Well, you may be crazy, I have no idea, but Easter was early this year if you were thinking that.
Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. Oddly enough, this is not based on science or really religion. Because the spring equinox date isn’t fixed, the Catholic Church created a fixed date of March 21 to define it.
In other news, a strong contingent of people believe the Bible goes in the non-fiction section of the library.
Next year, Easter is on April 20, if you celebrate, plan accordingly.
March 24 is the rarest date for Easter, per Google. Impress your friends with that nugget of knowledge, next time you find yourself with some friends.
I’m not a religious guy, but I feel like the Catholics have a lot of “wiggle room” in their belief system. To be honest, I always wanted to be Catholic, but my Irish friends say I don’t drink enough to qualify. Probably for the best.
I felt like I’d be rather good at that confession part of the regimen, but we’ll never know. To be fair, it is likely I would have struggled with the kneeling part.
I used to work with a lady a couple of decades my senior that declared the 1st of May as the real turning point on the spring calendar. She would sing/yodel/hum, “Hooray, hooray, it’s the 1st of May, outdoor sex begins today.”
Yodeling remains a lost art. Inappropriate office banter is as well.
Come to think of it she was around my age now when I thought she was an old woman. Life comes at you fast, folks. Don’t look back.
This column has gotten awkward. I suppose that was about 30 years ago, so she’s around 85 now, might find her on Facebook and see if she still yodels; just for kicks.
(Guy Speckman can be reached researching religion and the calendar or yodeling)