dick enberg

this morning i saw something online how sports broadcaster dick enberg had died. i have his book, called 'oh my!' he liked to say that while calling a game. i liked how he was well-spoken while calling a game, and his auto-bio seemed to say why. he earned a doctorate and was an instructor before he decided to be a broadcaster full-time. i was wondering what kind of awards he had received, found out he has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. already knew he was inducted into the baseball hall of fame, and i have a trading card from his time at NBC. he announced the rose bowl, a college football bowl game, for a while, but was not the grand marshal. also not yet a recipient of the president's medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. another broadcaster, vin scully, has been given this honor. though this award is sometimes given posthumously. kind of odd how none have been awarded yet by mr. trump, though it sounds like Obama awarded one to his v.p. in January, with about a week left in his term. i know enberg had some movie roles, usually playing himself, a sports announcer. one of these was 'mr. 3000', i had written about it in early 2013. there was something on the CBS evening news, though i don't understand why a clip from announcing football wasn't from a super bowl as he called some super bowls. sounds like he stayed active after retiring from broadcasting last year, doing a podcast. i decided to re-tweet tom brokaw, who reacted to enberg's passing. and it led to me deciding to follow enberg's account. just as important, it was long overdue to do a cleanup of my twitter account. i have cut back on what accounts i was following, cutting about 100 and now i am down to less than 300. my number of followers is under 300 as well.
  i performed at two different karaoke venues tonight. i did one song at the first, 'everybody is free to wear sunscreen' by baz luhrmann. at the second venue i did two. it was 'crazy times' by jars of clay' and 'king without a crown' by matisyahu. it led to a weird interaction with the general public. i leave my coat on the back of a chair and go get beer, choosing that table as i briefly talked with a lady there who recognized me from a different karaoke venue. i see how a man decides to sit there, so i move the coat to another table. he still wants to talk to me, i say i prefer to sit by myself, it is fine, we are cool. not good enough for this dude. OK. so he sits down at my table, we talk things through, covering various subjects, and i end up going back to the first table! not the ending i had expected, as people usually leave me alone after i rebuff them. but i tend to respond well when somebody shows that they want to be diplomatic to me.