Not much. I grew up with the message that people, all people, are important and I’ve never come to not believe that. In fact I’ve come to believe over the years that all beings are important....
Whatever happened to socks? I don’t have to present a dissertation on why we wear socks other than to say:A) They’re comfortableB) They keep our feet moisture (read: sweat) freeC) They protec...
Whenever I read a writing prompt and I can’t think of anything to write about within a couple of minutes I give up. But not always. Sometimes I turn to anagrams just for the fun of seeing what ...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2023/01/01/where-to-go-with-custody/
It’s way too early in the season to say the Twins are pathetic, but this isn’t looking to be a good team. Yeah, the first four games, playing against a team predicted to be about as good as w...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2022/04/14/how-bout-them-twins/
I turned on the news yesterday evening when I was making dinner and I heard a story about the Minnesota Wild hockey team and learned the team bought out the contracts of two of their star players...
It always happens. You tell someone you eat a plant-based diet and they inevitably ask, “But how do you get your protein?” Tell them you enjoy the Grateful Dead and they’ll say, “Oh… I ...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2020/04/14/the-inevitable-questions-that-always-get-asked/
My knees hurt and my back hurts and I’ll tell you, I tired of bending down to pick stuff up off the floor. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I’m pretty sure I’ve come up with...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2018/02/15/pick-it-up-or-random-thoughts-29/
This morning I saw one of the most absurd memes I’ve seen in a long time. The picture showed football player Tim Tebow taking a knee in prayer before a University of Florida football game and t...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2017/09/25/colin-kaepernick-and-other-american-heroes/
Define “Frustration” in three words: Minnesota Twins Baseball. This is a rant. You’ve been warned. And you wonder why the Twins suck? OK, maybe you don’t wonder why the Twins suck, but t...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2016/12/07/playing-baseball-the-twins-way/
I’m getting tired of all the hate directed toward Walter Palmer. In case you’ve been vacationing in another solar system these past few days, Walter Palmer is the Minnesota dentist/big game h...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2015/08/05/walter-palmer-and-our-misdirected-outrage/
Minnesota Twins TV announcer Dick Bremer said before the start of this afternoon’s broadcast that, “… it’s only been two games” and then he commented on how fans get upset too quickly. ...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2015/04/09/minnesota-twins-getting-back-to-business-as-usual/
What a surprise, the weather forecasters get it wrong. From the NY Times this morning: “The National Weather Service said the blizzard warning for the city had been canceled, as the dire warnin...
A rehabbing Joe Mauer played a full nine innings at Class A Cedar Rapids on Friday. Ron Gardenhire sais everything went well in Mauer’s 3-for-5 outing and that Joe is fine and just suffering fr...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/08/10/where-have-you-gone-joe-mauer/
I think if you took a guy – any guy you want – and put him in a Twins uniform and put a bat in his hands and you sent him up to the plate and have him face away from the pitcher, I think that...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/07/31/the-minnesota-twins-adventures-in-awkwardness/
It was 2004. July 31st, a Sunday, and the Twins were on their way to their third straight AL Central division title. I remember it was a Sunday because I was at home, lying on the couch and readi...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/07/27/minnesota-twins-and-the-trading-deadline/
If I were a member of the Minnesota Twins, the last words on my lips each night would be a prayer that I would wake up the following morning to find out I’d been traded.
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/07/27/wishful-thinking-minnesota-twins/
This has been another frustrating Twins season thanks to oafish ownership, moldy management, clumsy coaching and some players who look like they’re playing with as much fire as broken down f...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/07/25/random-thought-16-minnesota-twins-coping-mechanism/
I’m pissed off. I don’t care if his name is Joe Mauer and I don’t care if he’s making $23 million a year and I don’t care that he’s won three batting titles. Baseball is a game of st...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/06/15/random-thoughts-10-yesterdays-twinstigers-game/
I need to move someplace where they don’t have televised weather coverage. Preferably someplace with ideal weather year-round, and in a perfect world, someplace nearly deserted with my nearest...
I went to bed with a weather forecast of 1″ to 2″ of snow ending by 9:00am. Six hours and 45 minutes later I wake up to a reality of a winter storm warning with an expected snowfall of 3″ t...
https://michaelsfishbowl.com/2014/01/30/weather-forecasting-phooey/