We live on the dark side of the street in our first-ring Minneapolis suburb. Let\u2019s just consider the past decade. I\u2019m guessing the average is 4 1\/2 nights per summer when our power goes out and you look at the houses across the street and into the cul de sac, and you know what can be seen?<\/p>\n
Lights. Maybe the glow of TVs.<\/p>\n
And when it\u2019s a storm that takes out a big area for a substantial length of time, our covey of homes are always the last to have the power return.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, with the long summer days still upon us, I started watching the All-Star Game. Some rain had occurred, not an actual storm, and that had passed. As Paul Skenes was about to walk to the mound for the National League, there was the telltale flicker, then poof, there went the power.<\/p>\n
Even if I hadn\u2019t been watching TV at that moment, I would have known this from the aspersion offered by the bride from the upstairs viewing area. It was loud enough to conclude that she must have been watching an episode of \u201cThe Valley,\u201d the latest hit on Bravo revealing flaws in America\u2019s privileged youth.<\/p>\n
We can all agree on this, can\u2019t we? Major League Baseball would be much better off in its outreach if Andy Cohen had been its commissioner for the past decade and not Rob Manfred.<\/p>\n
The first estimate was 9:30 p.m., causing me to go old-school. I got in the vehicle, turned on the game and drove around a couple of lakes. When I got back, we had power and I settled in to watch the conclusion of the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We live on the dark side of the street in our first-ring Minneapolis suburb. Let\u2019s just consider the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-24362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}