1978: Period of MLB

I liked Toni Tennille from the "Love Will Keep Us Together" start, and I have absolutely loved her once we saw her in "The Rainmaker" at Westport Playhouse in St. Louis, and now I am thrilled to discover again that she was on the mic for the national anthem on last night 1978's Game 1 of the World Series from beautiful Los Angeles ...

1978

1978 is really weird.

A big part of The Heath Post Era for me has been revisiting the years of my childhood. Versions of these posts started in May 2011. I think this was the first one, about 1975 and '74, from May 2011. By August 2011, I was starting to get pretty serious about thinking about 1974. Then a couple of months after that, I knew this whole deal was not just going to be a summer lark and figured out I was going to follow 1975 all through 2012. And then in 2013 I reset the whole clock to my birth year, 1968, and that's pretty much how things have been going ever since. There was a short period when I decided to try to flip my fake year where I'd live the old football and Christmas seasons in the first half of the real year, but that didn't take. And there was one fake year that I did twice in a row because I was disappointed in my experience the first time through--1976, I think. But, by and large, since 2011, I've been pretty consistently and increasingly systematically exploring the first years of my life again in the background of my current year.

And let me tell you that, man, I have loved it! I don't post about it nearly as much as I used to because at different points my hobby has veered on becoming a little too consuming. I'm one of those big-appetites people who have to put governors around a lot of my passions because I have a real tendency toward all sorts of giant benders that are no good for anyone. So in the same way that I watch sports mostly on mute and mostly stop myself at one pop, I also have limited my HPing about the fake year I also live in. But I'm still in the fake year almost every day. And when I do miss a day because of real-year life, I almost always go back and check out the fake day I missed. 

Anyway, what I want to say is 1978 is really weird. I know of what I speak, and what I'm saying is 1978 is really weird.

25 May 1978, Thu Desert Dispatch (Barstow, California) Newspapers.com

You don't have to read all of that. The upshot is that the A's--in the season they were supposed to now be playing in Denver, in a season a lot of people expected them to finish last in the American League West (behind even the Mariners)--are in first place, and the manager ups and quits. Weird. 

I do think you'll want to at least take the time to check out these two paragraphs, though ...

See what I'm saying? Really weird.

1978

Happy new year!

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NFL78 Update: Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath)

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Previous and future NFL78 reports:

-- NFL67 wrap (as posted Jan. 13, 2013)
-- NFL68 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2014)
-- NFL69 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2016)
-- NFL70 wrap (as posted Jan. 17, 2017)
-- NFL71 wrap (as posted Jan. 16, 2018)

-- NFL72 so far (as posted Jan. 17, 2019)

-- Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta) (as posted Jan. 31, 2019)
-- Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath) (as posted Aug. 5, 2019)

-- Super Bowl XIII revisited (as posted March 22, 2014)
-- Earl Campbell's Restaurant in the Austin, Texas Airport (as posted June 25, 2016)

-- NFL14 so far (as posted Jan. 28, 2019)

-- NFL15 so far (as posted Sept 13, 2015)
-- NFL16 so far (as posted Jan. 8, 2017)