Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Sports Nadir (non-Abed) Edition

Okay, quick ramblings that would make Rascal Renegade proud (who gets a shoutout because he’s getting married on Saturday—I tried to see if they could use a string quartet while figuring things out for my performance a few weeks ago, and while they were interested, they didn’t have the budget for it, and I’d never be able to get three other musicians to play an event an hour and change away, where there’s bridge tolls involved, for exposure. Senorita Weaselo is baseballed out from the game we went to at Fenway. No way she’s doing it for no money.)

I was thinking of this one as I traversed the George Washington Bridge for the third of four straight days. This is widely regarded by me as too many days in a row. But, as maybe like three of you know, the exits getting onto and off the bridge are numbered 70–73, with the exit to I-80 being exit 69 (yeah, yeah). These exit numbers then proceed to be… the I-80 numbers, not the I-95 numbers as you get to the NJ Turnpike. So, whose bright idea was that? Oh believe me, I have others in the New York area, such as:

-The exit numbers on the Cross Island Parkway follow the Belt Parkway numbering system (probably enough to cause a debate on whether it should have been the Cross Island getting the numbers or the Southern State, but that’s neither here nor there). But the just-mentioned Southern State starts at like exit 13, and I don’t understand that one. If it was 1, I’d get it. (The reason is because the Cross Island used to be numbered north to south, 1-12, instead of south to north following the Belt. Those exit numbers then carried over to the Southern State. Regardless, this has to be 30+ years old in terms of inconsistent numbering, as it’s been like this the entirety of my memory.

-Speaking of, they recently “fixed” the numbers on the Hutchinson River Parkway so it matches the mileage. First off, this is why you have 1A, 1B, 1C and so forth in the Bronx, though it did fix giving the ramp to 684 an actual exit number, so that’s nice. But second off, it continues to not fix not-New York’s problem, which is why the Merritt Parkway starts at Exit 27. My guess is exits were added to the Hutch and Connecticut couldn’t be bothered to update the numbers, but come on, new state, feel free to start back at 1.

Okay, got that off my chest. Now for… sports? Ha, SPORTS? We got summer league basketball, and if you’re watching that you’re either a) in a place where even GAMBLOR would be worried about you or 2) hate-watching Bronny.

Actually, there is WNBA on ESPN (Indiana Caitlin Clarks vs. the TV Land Crew, the Dallas! Wings). “But Senor,” someone said, “there’s MLS.” Wow, like you think we care about MLS when we were spoiled with all the international footy that already occurred AND is still to occur with the Olympics later on!

So what is there to watch, then? Well, I probably should watch the things I say I’m going to watch on Netflix (like Bojack, which I still haven’t watched, or the Scott Pilgrim anime, or the other host of shows).  Or Taskmaster. Or the current season of the JMR Sand Marble Rally—for those not aware, it’s an entirely different set of marbles than the Marble League groups, as solo marbles race through various sand courses. I also need to do laundry, so that’ll be there too.

Good, I shattered word count and it is now 7:15 local time, so this better go up! Here’s some music for Fascismpalooza. I’d embed it, but WordPress is deleting the whole article rather than letting me post a second Youtube link.