Transmissions from the Northern Outpost

Tag: Yankees

  • Yay, negative biopsy! And go Yankees!

    Every Thursday I share three good things from today, in the past week, and/or in the week or weeks to come, to focus on what is good. I encourage you to share in the comments your three good things too, if you want. I was introduced to thinking on three good things for the week by Deb Nance of the blog Readerbuzz who lists hers every Sunday on her blog.

    Today’s No. 1 is a big one. A couple of weeks ago, my dad, who is 81, had an ultrasound on a spot on his chest. Then a series of doctor appointments followed with the spot being removed and a biopsy being performed. Today the results came back: negative!

    After that, No. 2 and No. 3 are just cake.

    A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I am now watching baseball, and specifically the Yankees. As of today, at they have 35 wins and 20 losses and set atop the American League East and the third best record in Major League Baseball behind the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies.

    And this weekend, they will be in Los Angeles facing the Dodgers who…ugh…I hate saying this…defeated the Yankees in last year’s World Series. But this year, the Yankees are on fire and the Dodgers are beleaguered by pitching injuries. So…

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  • The first American pope, a rare Friday off, and go Yankees!

    Every Thursday (or sometimes like today, on a Friday), I share three good things from today, in the past week, and/or in the week or weeks to come, to focus on what is good. I encourage you to share in the comments your three good things too, if you want. I was introduced to thinking on three good things for the week by Deb Nance of the blog Readerbuzz who lists hers every Sunday on her blog.

    The First American Pope

    Though my wife and I are no longer Catholic, we are glad to see that the man Pope Francis probably would have picked to succeed him: Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV.

    A rare Friday off

    I’m off today, a Friday, normally a day I work, so I plan to take advantage of it:

    • Reading more of The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. 
    • Catching up with the last episodes of the Where is My Mind? podcast hosted by Niall Breslin. I discovered Breslin at the start of the pandemic with a podcast he had called Wake Up/Wind Down, which he then spun off into Where is My Mind? I will miss hearing his voice.
    • Maybe reading some poetry and fiction too. I have a poetry book or two and two poetry magazines checked out from the library on the Libby app. I also am on the last few of the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.

    Yankees baseball

    At the start of the season, with our phone plan, T-Mobile had a deal for MLB.com for free for the season. When I was a kid, I followed baseball some, and only the Yankees. Since then, I’ve only kept up very sporadically, but with “the state of the world” the way it is, I decided why not another distraction? It’s been a good one, with the Yanks doing well to start the year. While they don’t have the best record in baseball, they are at the top of their division, the American League East, with 21 wins and 16 losses. I’ve also been enjoying watching affiliates of the Yankees in minor league, which MLB.com shows too, especially the Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre RailRiders.

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