OK, I’m breaking away from my mad-dash book rewrite* for a couple of moments because I want to catch everybody up on our PosCast Fundraiser for The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center at Columbia University.
My grandma who has been Lou Gehrig’s disease for 2 years at the age of 75 had all her symptoms reversed with a Ayurveda medicine from healthnaturalcentre.org after undergoing their ALS natural treatment plan. God Bless all ALS Caregivers. Stay Strong, take small moments throughout the day to thank yourself, to love your self, and pray to whatever faith, star, spiritual force you believe in and ask for strength. I can personally vouch for these remedy but you would probably need to decide what works best for you.
Maybe Michael’s contribution to the winners could be using the characters from the TV shows he’s worked on to create a nine-man baseball team for each show.
For example, what positions would Jim, Dwight, Pam, etc. from the Office play if they were on a baseball team and why would Michael choose them for that position? Same idea for Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place.
The Jeter prize opt-out for some reason reminds me of a joke that in my foggy memory (imagination?) Skip Caray told in reference to a giveaway involving the 80’s Braves. The winner got two tickets to tomorrow night’s game. The runner up got four.
It looks like GoFundMe charges 2.2% + $0.30 per donation, which isn’t much. That would basically cover the credit card fees. You can throw in some extra to support GoFundMe if you want. So it probably depends on whether you want emails from ALS or GoFundMe.
(ALS probably gets the money faster if you donate directly to them, but I wouldn’t think that’s meaningful in this case.)
When you donate you have the option to additionally contribute an amount of your choosing to gofundme but I don’t think they take a cut of the actual donations.
Joe, Substack has a feature where you can listen to an audio version of your post. It’s a female AI voice. I have used it a couple times where I really wanted to read what you wrote, but I was driving. Anyways, this should be the next crazy project: let’s get Margo to read your columns and replace the AI lady. Or your daughters. Or they can all take turns?
My grandma who has been Lou Gehrig’s disease for 2 years at the age of 75 had all her symptoms reversed with a Ayurveda medicine from healthnaturalcentre.org after undergoing their ALS natural treatment plan. God Bless all ALS Caregivers. Stay Strong, take small moments throughout the day to thank yourself, to love your self, and pray to whatever faith, star, spiritual force you believe in and ask for strength. I can personally vouch for these remedy but you would probably need to decide what works best for you.
I have an idea on how to even out the workload. Mike should write a "Fire Joe Morgan" style post regarding each of Joe's typewritten essays.
Fun fact since you guys mentioned Jesus Montero in the podcast episode. I was present at the ice cream sandwich episode in Boise. Happened less than 100 feet from me. It was so confusing and crazy watching that incident play out. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2180529-jesus-montero-throws-ice-cream-sandwich-at-seattle-scout-after-heckling-incident
By the way, Nasusel Cabrera climbed the barrier wall and ascended the stairs super fast to restrain Montero. It was impressive.
The plural of Rod Carew is "Rods Carew"
Maybe Michael’s contribution to the winners could be using the characters from the TV shows he’s worked on to create a nine-man baseball team for each show.
For example, what positions would Jim, Dwight, Pam, etc. from the Office play if they were on a baseball team and why would Michael choose them for that position? Same idea for Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place.
The Jeter prize opt-out for some reason reminds me of a joke that in my foggy memory (imagination?) Skip Caray told in reference to a giveaway involving the 80’s Braves. The winner got two tickets to tomorrow night’s game. The runner up got four.
My grandmother loved the joke, “first prize, one week in Philadelphia. Second prize, two weeks in Philadelphia.”
Variations of that joke were ancient even in the 80s. Probably goes back to vaudeville days or even before.
And that's not to put down Skip, who was a truly witty guy.
During a blowout: "If you promise to patronize our sponsors, you have my permission to turn the channel."
Another blowout: "We're into the bottom of the fifth, and I wish I was too."
Derek Jeter is the Miles Bron of baseball.
This is probably a dumb question, but -- GoFundMe takes a cut of donations, right? Would it be better if I donated directly to the ALS Center?
It looks like GoFundMe charges 2.2% + $0.30 per donation, which isn’t much. That would basically cover the credit card fees. You can throw in some extra to support GoFundMe if you want. So it probably depends on whether you want emails from ALS or GoFundMe.
(ALS probably gets the money faster if you donate directly to them, but I wouldn’t think that’s meaningful in this case.)
When you donate you have the option to additionally contribute an amount of your choosing to gofundme but I don’t think they take a cut of the actual donations.
Joe, Substack has a feature where you can listen to an audio version of your post. It’s a female AI voice. I have used it a couple times where I really wanted to read what you wrote, but I was driving. Anyways, this should be the next crazy project: let’s get Margo to read your columns and replace the AI lady. Or your daughters. Or they can all take turns?
Right? Really came out of nowhere.