Hooters Karli Continues Her Summer Content Series, Wesley Snipes Umps College Baseball & John Sterling Gets Drilled By Foul Ball
I'm BACK and feeling recharged
The voice is pretty much shot. My eyes are still burning from the cart path dust, Canadian wildfires, second-hand cig smoke, and a box fan blowing in my face all night. My shoulders are feeling the pain. The knees are fine. The back is fine.
The mind is clear.
The 2023 guys' golf trip is in the books and it was one for the ages, but what happens in northern Michigan stays in northern Michigan or on text exchanges.
Let's just say it was yet another blowout and it was well worth the grind.
My performance:
Odds and ends
Conclusion:
I've set the possibility of me returning next year at 60%. The kids are getting to that prime age for sports which is making me think I need to maximize my weekends with them, but then my brain is also telling me there's something in the healing powers of Up North.
Now it's time to turn my sights to the rest of summer.
Monte Carlo SS appreciation
• Chris in Cross Lanes writes:
Joe, longtime reader. Your column generally ends with some Dale Items. Not a big NASCAR guy but thought your readers might enjoy a time capsule that revolutionized Nascar in the 1980s, a 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS I have had since high school. My parents went shopping for a new car in late 1983. Dad wanted a Buick but my Mom bought this car because I wanted it.
She drove it for about 100 miles and then passed it to me. Drove it until 1999 when I had to set it aside as I was married with two kids and we went the minivan and later the SUV route. Mom passed in 2019 and Dad and I decided to get it back on the road. The car was garage kept for 20 years so no rust. Swapped out the engine for a 383 Short Block Chevy Stroker making 415 HP and 410 foot pounds of torgue.
After picking it up I drove two miles to the nearest gas station where I guy knocked on my window and threw is card in saying he would buy it when I ever I sell. That has happened multiple times since then. Dad passed in 2021 so this car is going nowhere and will stay in my family. Anyway, take care and continue doing what you’re doing.
Checkin in from France
• Ripcurl is still going strong over in Europe. I forget how long he's supposed to be living over there, but I think it's home now. He writes:
Greetings from the land of excellent canard.
Got a busy week of work, then we are heading up to Brittany for the weekend to see Saint Malo and Mont St. Michel. Should be a cool time.
Last week we headed to the town of Saintes. It is an old Roman town. Here is a tower built for the Emperer Tiberus in the year 18 AD.
Picked up some excellent produce:
Made some Osso Buco over risotto:
And called it a day:
Dick Yuengling sighting
• Darren knows a big swinging Dick sighting when he sees one. What a year for Dick.
The Instagram IG embed saga rolls on
• CJ writes:
Good Morning Gentlemen - may need to start posting screenshots of IG pics instead of links. My group of friends have a text group where we discuss Screen and Night Caps almost every day. We are all over 35, all have updated iPhones, all view on Safari. Except for two or three instances, none of us have seen any IG links work on outkick.com in over a month.
Just a concerned Caps lover.
Keep up the good work! Thank you!
Kinsey:
I've passed this along to the IT team. I'm all ears here. Who has a solution? I'll buy you something out of the OutKick store. Maybe two items if this fix lasts more than a day.
And that's it this morning. I have to get my brain back in the groove.
Last night, here it rained for the first time in 21 days, so I'm trying to wrap my brain around that and this work thing. Let's go give 100% over the next 8-10 hours.
Take care.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com