DAILY DIRT: Florida a better fit for Spring Training than regular season

October 8, 2023 | By Steve Eighinger, MRN Minister of Culture and Doctor of Love

Roger Dean Stadium was a far better experience than Busch Stadium this year. - MLB

Raise your hand if you feel MLB should cut bait when it comes to franchises in Florida … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 749 of The Daily Dirt.

1. The other day I received what I felt was a hilarious email from a good friend.

I’m not sure if he thought it was as funny as I did or was trying to tell me something.

He sent me a list of some more acronyms that are designed to come in handy if you are a senior. Here are the ones I enjoyed the most:

BFF: Best Friend Fell.
BTW: Bring The Wheelchair.
OMSG: Oh my. Sorry, gas!
TTYL: Talk To You Louder.
BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth.
LMDO: Laughing My Dentures Out.
FWIW: Forgot Where I Was.
GHA: Got Heartburn Again.
ROFL: Really Old and Farting Loudly.
IMHAO: Is My Hearing Aid On?
ROFLACGU: Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Can’t Get Up.

My favorites were BFF, TTYL, FWIW and ROFLACGU. Ok, Ok … I like ROFL, too.

2. Regular readers of The Daily Dirt know one of our favorite contributors is Stacey O’Brien of Quincy.

These are the latest gems from Lady Stacey:

Gold medal: Deja Poo: The feeling of having heard this crap before.

Silver medal: And that’s a wrap on another day where I acted like I knew what I was doing.

Bronze medal: Did you know it takes a plastic bag 20 to 100 years to break down, yet it takes me approximately one minor inconvenience.

3. Fact: China owns every panda in the world and rents them out for $1 million a year.

The Chinese government rents them out to various places around the world, often making upwards of $1 million a year off each animal. American zoos are common renters of pandas, usually signing 10-year agreements.

Additionally, any panda born while the mother is in, for example, an American zoo brings an added $400,000 to the Chinese government.

Steve Thought O’ The Day – When will Major League Baseball come to grips with the obvious fact the franchises it has in Florida is a bad idea? Tampa Bay and Miami, both playoff teams, ranked 27th and 29th in MLB attendance this season. Only the disaster that is the Oakland Athletics — which, by the way, is a franchise set to soon relocate to Las Vegas — drew fewer fans than Miami. Both Tampa Bay and Miami would be huge draws in, say … Nashville, Charlotte or Portland. Oh, and did you notice how many fans attended Tampa Bay’s two home playoff games a few days ago? A combined 39,000 showed up, an average of less than 20,000 per game? Embarrassing? Humiliating is more like it.