Jim Ellwanger

@ellwanger.tv

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Fan of pinball, radio jingles, passenger trains, and many other forms of recreation, communication, and transportation. He/him.

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Beverly Hills is a city, not a neighborhood!

What are some of your favorite fictional periodicals? I’ll go first.

"Having My Baby" by Paul Anka - my birth was arguably the greatest thing to happen in 1974, but this song hitting #1 was definitely the worst.

Name a song you hate "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter "Bad Day" makes a good day bad. "Bad Day" makes a bad day nuclear.

This establishment is on Standard Street in El Segundo, California, a town that's home to an oil refinery owned by Chevron, the former Standard Oil Company of California... this logo is a different Standard!

You don't often see a pinch runner batting! (J.P. Martinez was an injury replacement on the bases, and Atlanta batted around in the inning.)

"When I rode in a trolley across your face with a Swedish man, I bet that wasn't in your plans for the day" (Of Montreal)

“it’s Britney, bitch.”

I'm older than Chuck Woolery hosting Wheel of Fortune (by about 3½ months).

I'm older than Pat Sajak hosting Wheel of Fortune. (by about 6 weeks) (hope this isn't a Mark Twain--Halley's Comet situation)

Rays TV announcers had this conversation about the Marlins pitcher: "He's from Lima, Peru, but he went to high school here, in Parkland." "Parkland - Stoneman Douglas. That's one of the Florida high schools that's really known for baseball." Yes. It's really known for baseball.

When called, it’s your turn for service.

Sure, 3 months free rent, but you have to deal with the guy who put up the sign.

In case you young people want to know what it’s like to be almost 50 years old: I spent 5 minutes of freeway driving trying to remember the name “Judy Greer,” and then another 5 minutes trying to remember why I’d been trying to think of her name (saw an ARCO billboard with the hula girl she voices).

It’s nice there are still physical newspapers, because they make things seem more “real” than pixels on a screen.

You don’t see many official city street signs in Arial.

When I saw this "Nancy" strip, I wondered how many ballplayers actually have cash with them while they're playing - turns out it's more than you might think! www.mlb.com/news/steven-...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 22,1952

They got Yahoo to move to Playa Vista from offices in Burbank and Santa Monica in 2016. Wasn't that enough?

This baseball documentary that’s streaming on Peacock is pretty good, except for that backward apostrophe in the title.

CHALLENGERS (2024)

@omnibusooc.bsky.social If a tarantula ran at me across a field, I would not say, "Hooray, I'm in heaven!"

Vinyl albums cost FIFTY BUCKS these days?!

Sexually Suggestive

Labeled by Bluesky Moderation Service

The name of the Angels pitching coach is Barry Enright, and whenever I hear it mentioned during a baseball broadcast, this is all I can think of.

You can tell you've seen a lot of Friday night movies at the same theater when you get recognized by the woman handing out the CinemaScore survey cards.

Lightning is a different team! This is very confusing.

PLEASE INSERT YOUR OWN ‘SIRI’ PUN OR JOKE HERE

Mom, no!

This is a good article, but it kind of implies that it's hard to find pinball machines outside of people's homes these days - that is definitely not the case. They're all over the place!

www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/04/s...

Do they still make pinball machines? They do, in a huge new factory near O’Hare — with most selling to the 1 percentwww.chicagotribune.com Machines cost thousands of dollars and Stern Pinball says it can’t keep up with orders. Chicago’s century-old pinball heritage may yet avoid permanent tilt.

Today's Rays broadcast has a second color commentator stationed in the photographers' well - there's apparently no TV monitor for him, so he's following the game using the MLB app on his phone.

The Rays and Blue Jays are both on pace to go 81-81, with every game decided by an 8-2 score. #RaysUp

In honor of baseball season returning, quote skeet this with a random player My grandfather's favorite, Bob Feller (they were both Iowa boys who had moved further east)

In honor of baseball season returning, quote skeet this with a random player This photo of Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn won me a lot of money on a game show once

I guess the Rays aren't going to win the first 13 games of the season this year! Could still go 161-1, though. #RaysUp

Back in the day, this didn't get as much national attention as it otherwise might have because the media was on Mount St. Helens Eruption Watch in the other corner of the country.

On May 9, 1980, the MV Summit Venture struck the Sunshine Skyway’s south span, causing a collapse. The bridge was nine years old. No amount of infrastructure funding can stop a bridge struck by a container ship from collapsing. I’m already seeing claims to the contrary.