My Garbage-Time Greed In Fantasy Football

by Kevin Burton    I’ve never seen the movie “Wall Street” but I’m here to tell you greed is good. Very good.    In fantasy football.    You can be excused if you didn’t watch the Thursday Night football matchup this week, between two bottom-feeder teams, Atlanta and Green Bay. Maybe you have a life, …

Road Dogs’ Story Ends In Fantasy Glory

by Kevin Burton    I was distraught, or as we say in the biz, tilted.    Spoiler alert: Colby Parkinson saved me.    And so, in the aftermath the end of the fantasy football season, I am contented, with three championships to show for my efforts (out of eight leagues), having played “Celebration” by Kool …

Quibbles And Bits: Cats, Beatles, Fantasy

by Kevin Burton    Our younger cat Lakin is a great leaper, has a good set of lungs and is eager to communicate.    And she’s wild about exercise. I should be so wild about exercise.    You share your living space with two cats, you find out a few things.    Like on a …

Please Help Support Baseball For Blind Players

by Kevin Burton    In five-plus years I have never asked you readers for anything on Page 7, except for your attention and maybe to suspend disbelief a time or two.    Today’s post is a little different. So what’s gotten into me today? Why am I asking for your help?    Well, you could …

More Musing On Life, Baseball And Pete Rose

by Kevin Burton    One day I answered the phone and instead of a typical getting I heard, “Your boy’s in jail.”    Baseball was one of the few things that my father and I could talk about peacefully. But we had a disagreement about Pete Rose.    I loved Rose, who died Sept. 30 …

What Does Blind Barbie Mean Really?

by Kevin Burton    I was on the road playing beep baseball when the e-mail notifications about the first blind Barbie doll came pouring in. And I mean they poured in, from every quarter.     I thought, that’s a story. But then I realized, I had no idea what to think or say about it. …

I Scream For This Belated Ice Cream Post

by Kevin Burton    If I  say “better late than never” do you say “amen”?      Well in this case, my wife does.    National Ice Cream month was last month, July, not August.  That I didn’t squeeze out a participatory post in honor of the occasion is a black mark against my blogging record. …

Little-Known Facts About McDonald’s

by Kevin Burton    I used to think I liked McDonalds chicken nuggets – until the time I forgot to ask for barbecue sauce.    Oops!    McNuggets are my choice at McDonalds because I hate everything else. McDonalds in not our restaurant rotation.    When we travel to beep baseball tournaments this summer we …

Let Your Work For Jesus Be Wholehearted

by Kevin Burton   Half-heartedness in the service of Jesus, makes Jesus sick.     The Bible says so. This is a message from Jesus to the Church at Laodicea:    “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot …

Wife Carrying: A New Sport For The Burtons?

by Kevin Burton    Now this one has potential.    On the Dictionary Scoop website I stumbled upon an inspired idea for a new sport my wife Jeannette and I can get involved in. The website called it “weird” and “unique” and it is both.    Wife carrying.    I am psyched!    So fortunate …