01 | November | 2011 | "You Jivin' Me, Turkey?"

Trust Me, Please, It’s (my lengthy posting for The Midnight-Hour-Prior) In NO-WAY a Manifesto of ANY-TYPE…

Simply A Declaration Of What’s Been Happening, What IS Happening, and The What Is of a Potential Future (in regard to my blog/written-words).

Please Read, Please Understand, and TOTALLY Please-Please-ENJOY!

I Assure You Of Mucho-Mucho MORE on an Endless Horizon. PERIOD.

How Y’all Get/Like/Love It (The Blog/My Words), Who Honestly Knows.

Not ME, that’s for damn sure.

Lord Knows It Took Flippin’ FOREVER To Get My Wordage/Meaning Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust Right (or at least Just Right For ME).

Later, My Peeps!

Please Enjoy AND Please Keep Reading My Work.

BOTH Instances honestly DO make me rather pleased/happy.

And BOTH make me want to give you More and More and MORE.

Nite-Nite.

Bradley Alan is BEAT!

Long Long Long Day, I totally assure you.

Perhaps tomorrow will be better?

Damn AND Sheesh…

I SURE AS HELL HOPE SO, Fo-Flippin’-Sho!

Later, Taters!

Ps… Just A Happy Couple Pics For Beddie-Bye…

DO NOT LAUGH At Me... "Higgy" was MY TIGER During The Late-90s/Early-2000s PERIOD. He Simply LOST IT Waaaaaaaaaaaay Tooooooooooooo Soon :*( ...as you may/may-not recall.

Enjoy Those… And These ALSO (if possible)…

😉

OKAY…

First-Off…

I Want You ALL To Know The Little “Love-Fest” I’ve Been Having During The 2011 Post-Season, in-particular regard to BOTH My Cardinals AND My Tigers Being IN Said Post Season (AND At The SAME TIME No Less)…

Yeah…

It Has Been Fun.

Can’t Deny That FOR A SECOND.

Period.

However…

When This Blog Began (https://youjivinmeturkey.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/step1-get-blog-check-step2-blog-it/), I Truly Was Doing The ONE THING “They” Have Preached To Me (Us (Everyone Who Writes Nearly Anything)) OVER AND OVER Again…

Write What You Know.

Sooooo…

I DID Spend The Bulk Of My Time (mainly) Writing About My Cardinals…

BUT BUT BUT I Was Writing About THE Thing I Knew Best, In Regard To WHAT My Intended Format/Target Was.

I’m A Writer, YES, But I’m One Who Had Never Really Found His Voice in a “So Called” Individualized-Writing-Format.

As The Saying Goes… “My Original Stuff Wasn’t That Good, and My Good Stuff Wasn’t That Original.”

Really.

You Should Trust Me.

–

I Was Generally The Kid/Teen/Adult Who Could Always FIND Something/Anything…

Use Said Something/Anything As A Model…

Then Come Up With 50-FLIPPIN-BILLION New, AND Different, Ways The (again) Said Something/Anything Could Be Done.

It’s Just, At The VERY CORE, I Knew Going Into Every Situation, I Was ALSO Saying (On The Inside)…

“Hmm… I Like What I’ve Done. Very Cool. $20 Says “They” Say, “I Like It! And I Liked It BETTER When It Was Called “*BLAH BLAH BLAH*”!”

I Knew AND Know It.

I Knew AND Know It EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

I’m A Great (Great Being Subjective) Writer At Times.

I’m A VERY VERY Poor (Poor ALSO Being Subjective) Writer At Others.

Life In Balance Once Again.

Just As It Should Be.

Balance, In My Mind, Is (almost) EVERYTHING…

…at times.

I’m Generally Decent (enough) With My Words…

I Just Can’t Spelllll Manny Ob Dhem…

…at tymes.

THANK YOU SPELL-CHECK (btw)!!!

It’s Really Aided Me In Getting The Words And Thoughts Onto A Screen (nearly correctly)…

…AND Out Of My Head…

Where I (and eventually others) Will Get To See What’s Going On.

Then I Tweak It (to that current moment), And We Go From There.

BUTTY-BUT-BUT I Do TRY To Incorporate The Material Of Other Writers As (sometimes) Those Folks Really Say It Pretty Damn Well (without my help/tweaking, fo sho).

It’s Just True.

I Do Enjoy Giving Other’s The Credit They Deserve For The Things They’ve Written.

A Byline is a Byline.

And I Really CANNOT Enjoy Taking Credit For The Work Of Others.

ESPECIALLY In Regard To People Who Write.

They Deserve Their Credit.

Writing Is NOT Easy.

PERIOD PERIOD.

Trust Me.

I’ve Been Doing It Since I Was A Lad Of Just 3-Years-Old.

Eventually…

When You’re Writing The Captain’s (AND The Public-Affairs-Officer’s) Letters/Speeches/Captions/Bylines/Personal-Yet-Official-Correspondence/etc etc …

Yeah.

Writers DESERVE Their Credit.

No Foolies, Folks.

Big BIG BIG PERIOD.

MY POINT, Sorry…

Is That, Honestly, THIS IS NOT A St. Louis Cardinals, nor A Detroit Tigers, BLOG.

PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD.

It Was The Post Season.

It Was My First Time Really Really (really even) Blogging In This Manor (any way ya wanna take that, trust me)…

SO…

Yeah…

I Gushed-It-Up Just A Bit…

AND I HAD A BLAST DOING IT!

However…

THIS IS A BASEBALL BLOG.

(more) PERIOD(s).

I Got Damn LUCKY All This Came Around, and About, and Together, As The Play-Offs Were Happening.

A Lot Of Other Commitments Had Kept Me From Beginning My Adventure At “You Jivin’ Me, Turkey?” (https://youjivinmeturkey.wordpress.com/)

Now?

Not So Much.

Yes, I Continue To Have Commitments.

Sure.

But, ONCE YOU GET YOURSELF SET-UP, The Blogging Part Becomes Easier.

Occasionally Less-Time-Consuming.

Sure Sure.

However (again)…

Please (again with the) Trust Me…

I Can Spend 3 Minutes doin’ My Blogin’…

I Can Spend A DAY (or two or whatever) doin’ My Blogin’…

But The Set-Up Portion Was THE KEY…

AND Its, Honestly, ON-GOING.

I Don’t Seem To Stay “All Happy” with Everything, and there’s generally something I wanna change.

“Tinkering” would be A Very Good Term, Here.

And I Do So.

I’m Still Waiting On A NEW BANNER/BACKGROUND …

Was Supposed To Have Had It Back…

Hmm…

sheesh…

Must Be 10?-20?-30? Days (? (or hours?)) Ago…

sheesh…

Wonder if THAT REALLY COOL DUDE (*grin grin wink wink nudge nudge*) is EVER gonna let me know when that’s done?

(sobs softly (yet loudly enough) in the “quiet corner”)

Have To Find Out About That Guy…

Hope He’s Alive…

hmmm…

Yeah…

Likely…

Eh, Good Enough.

ANYWAY!

sheesh…

The Point!

We’re Talkin’ MY POINT!

Right.

M’Kay.

We’re not in Russia, are we?

This isn’t Russia, is it?

Hmmm…

Wow.

Nevermind.

So Yeah THIS IS ALL ABOUT (all of) BASEBALL!

(This Is Baseball, btw… —> (http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp))

That’s The Thing I’ve Been Moving Toward This Whole Time.

Odd How It Continued to slowly slowly (yet not so slowly) drift away… …

Nevermind.

I Do Need Sleep…

…That Would Help.

AH!

THE POINT!

Yes…

Um…

I Did The Blah Blah All Baseball Thing…

hmmm…

RIGHT!

My Main Thing Was That Right There.

OH!

And That This Is Going To Be A very Very VERY LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG Off-Season.

Maybe Even A Damn SAUCY/INTERESTING Off-Season TA BOOOT!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…

To Y’all…

Please Stay Tuned.

I Do Promise There WILL BE More AND More AND (even) MORE-MORE-&-More…

…and more…

…maybe…

…well…yes.

Sounds Good.

That’s The Jist of My Jive, Anyway.

The 2011 Play-Offs HAVE BEEN GREAT.

I Couldn’t Have Asked For A Better Form/Type/Stroke-Of-PURE-Luck For Making An Introduction.

I’ve Spent Years Writing Things Other People LOVED (that weren’t totally totally mine to begin with)…

…or Things Other People (mainly) Said “What The F?”

(wtf?)

While Not Really Ever Getting Any Credit For Any Of It Anyway.

Now (finally)?

Now, I FEEL (more) Comfortable (enough) With WHAT I’m Doing Here…

…and I KNOW HOW To Do It Well Enough To Suit Enough (for a start) Other People.

So I Honestly Do THINK I Can Handle What You’re Appearing To Enjoy About My (does quirky work here?) Style.

You Know I’m A St. Louis Cardinals Fan (http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=stl) (yes, they’re my favorite team (in any Sport)).

You Know I Enjoy My Detroit Tigers (http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=det).

I Also Very Much Enjoyed Seeing The-Upstart-DBacks (http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=ari) AND (D)Rays (http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=tb) Make It Into The 2011 Post Season.

I’m Also A Philadelphia Phillies (http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=phi) “Phan” (not to be corn-fused with the “Phans” of The Group Phish).

Yet I Always Wanted To SLAP The “Phillies Phanatic” (hated that guy).

Mike Schmidt (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schmimi01.shtml) Was My ORIGINAL GUY.

He Was MVP The Year Of, AND After, My Birth…

Even Won It A 3rd-Time In 1986…

He Really Was THE GUY In Baseball During My “Debut” (if you will) Into The Realm Of Baseball Itself.

Period.

The Phillies WON The World Series The Year I Was Born (1st’s For Both Of Us).

My Cardinals WON The Day I Was Born.

The 1st World Series I Got To Actually See?

It Was On VHS Tape.

It Was The 1982, Cardinals -Vs- Brewers, World Series.

Actually Saw It A Whole Week BEFORE Watching The 1985 World Series (yet didn’t remember the bulk of it (other than mainly just Darrell Porter’s big-goofy-glasses) until seeing it again in 1987).

The 1985 World Series, however, Is THE 1st World Series I Really Remember.

Tommy Herr and Darrell Porter and Jack Clark

(http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/herrto01.shtml)

(http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/porteda02.shtml)

(http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clarkja01.shtml)

-VS-

Bret Saberhagen and George Brett

(http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/saberbr01.shtml)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brettge01.shtml

It Was Really THE Match-Up I Wanted To See MOST.

My Favorite Cardinals

-Vs-

My Favorite Royals

Yepper.

The Kansas City Royals (http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=kc) ARE My Favorite American League Team.

Period.

Lots AND LOTS Of People HATE THAT When I Say It.

Especially After Games 6 AND 7 In That (damned/dreaded) 1985 Series.

And…

Just So We’re Clear…

YES!

Don Made A HORRID Call…

Can’t Deny It….

But…

EVEN IF YOU GIVE GAME 6’s Eventual Outcome ANY Special-Consideration…

Yep.

That’s Right.

DOESN’T EXPLAIN AWAY GAME 7, DOES IT!?!?!

SHEESH.

Buckner in ’86?

Also A GAME 6!

6 (SIX)!

In BOTH Game 7’s?

Yep.

Cards AND BoSox BLEW-IT HARD.

Period.

SO…

Nope.

I DO NOT SUPPORT The “The Umpire Screwed Us” Excuse.

It Was A Break.

That’s It.

The Rest Was ON THEM.

In BOTH Instances.

I Want THIS BLOG To Be About BASEBALL.

Period Period Period Period.

…and one more Period.

Soooooo…

As We Go Forward…

I Sincerely Hope You’ll Get The Jistin’ Of The Bulk Of My Jivin’.

😉

What More Could Anyone Ask Of A Reader, Right?

RIGHT!

Now That We’ve Cleared That Up…

Here’s A Couple Quick Stories From Today (Monday, October 31st)…

Along With A Little Something Extra.

I’m Just Going To Supply You With Links This Time (mostly)…

As I’m VERY Sure You’re Tried Of Readin’ This ONE (1) Long-Damned-Ramblin’-Bloggin’-in’-Thingy-Thing…’in…

…lord knows I am.

BIG PERIOD.

I Do Hope You Continue Coming Back.

I (really really) Do Enjoy The Ability To Write To You.

And I (even more so) Enjoy Knowing You’re Reading.

Thanks…

MUCH Appreciated.

-Mgmt.

😉

And Now…

Your Link’age…

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=983&pid=9279 (felt it fitting, since Tony called it a Career, today.)

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-yankees-sabathia

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-braves-indianstrade

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-indians-sizemore

http://bleacherreport.com/fantasy-baseball (if You’re a Fantasy Geek (like me) Then There’s Some FINE INFO For Y’all On This Page, This Week. Some Quality Readin’ To Be Sure.)

So Long For Now, My Peeps.