Carol ReMarks
Carol reMarks on glamour, pop culture, and front-page news. Join me. I'm not a traditional podcast. Most of the time I am recording on-the-go with my iPhone voice memo app. Come along with me.
Carol ReMarks
Pete Rose's Legacy, Lake Michigan Craters, and NYC's Smart Hoop Controversy
Ever wondered if a sports legend's controversial past should overshadow their undeniable talent? Join me, Carol, as we reflect on the fascinating life of Pete Rose, who recently passed away at 83. We'll look back at his stellar career with the Cincinnati Reds and tackle the lingering debate over his lifetime ban from the Baseball Hall of Fame due to gambling. Relive those nostalgic moments cheering for Rose with my family and consider if his achievements should earn him a spot in the Hall despite his gambling history.
But that's not all! Brace yourself for a journey beneath Lake Michigan, where the discovery of enormous underwater craters has left scientists baffled. We'll explore the leading theories and the captivating mystery that still surrounds these formations. Then, head to the streets of New York City with us as we uncover the tale of the city's first smart basketball hoop. Hear about the public outcry over its internet features and why they were removed. Plus, I’ll share a personal story about my first significant trip away from home, the mixed emotions it stirred, and the anticipation of upcoming post-debate recaps. This episode promises a blend of sports nostalgia, scientific mysteries, and urban innovation that you won't want to miss!
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Hello, good morning. Welcome one and all to the podcast. My name is Carol, and this is where I remark on glamour, pop culture and front page news. Today we have three different stories that are not related to politics at all.
Speaker 1:Alright, first up, though, we hear about Pete Rose has died about, uh, pete rose has died. They have not given the reason why, although he is 83 here, he was 83 years old. I still think that is way too young to die of natural causes. But maybe he didn't take care of his body after he quit playing baseball. I don't know he, I don't know. I don't know. Let's see. Baseball legend pete rose died on on Monday at the age of 83. The Reds confirmed. The 17-time All-Star owned numerous Major League Baseball records during his playing career that spanned 24 years and included time with the Reds, phillies and Expos. Now I only know him from the Cincinnati Reds the big machine, right, big red machine, I think that's. I don't know. I don't remember him playing for Phillies or Expos.
Speaker 1:News of Rose's passing was first reported by TMZ, and the outlet revealed that he had died at his home in Las Vegas. I did not know. He lived in Vegas, which kind of makes sense if you know his background in gambling and betting. Rose's agent, Ryan Feiterman of Feiterman Sports, told TMZ the Mell Great's family is asking for privacy at this time. I'm sorry I'm talking about it on the podcast. Details about Rose's passing are limited, but ABC News reported that Rose had been found by a family member and that the scene is being examined. There were no signs of foul play. Now maybe he had a heart attack, I don't know. The coroner will determine the cause and manner of Rose's death. Of course they will Known as Charlie Hustle. I did not know him as Charlie Hustle For his play on the field.
Speaker 1:Rose will be remembered as MLB's hits king, as well as for his gambling on baseball that led to a lifetime ban from the game. Rose is one of baseball's all-time greats, having won three World Series titles two with the Reds and one with the Phillies and the 1973 National League MVP, while hanging up his cleats with records in a number of categories. When Rose retired from the baseball diamond in 1986, he ended his playing career as Major League Baseball's all-time leader in hits 4,256, singles, 3,215 games played and 3,562 at-bats, and the next one is 14,053 at-plate appearances. And this last one well, 15,890 was at the bat was at the plate appearances. Additionally, he captured three batting titles and two gold gloves. There's more to the story. You can go read all about it. I'm sure they talk about his gambling, uh, why he's, why he was banned from the baseball hall of fame and all of that. Uh, he needs to be put in the baseball hall of fame.
Speaker 1:Quite frankly, I remember my grandfather. He was a huge. I mean, the last two years of my high school I lived with my grandparents, kate and jack, in west portsmouth, ohio, and anytime the reds were playing on tv, he had it on if it. If it wasn't on tv, he was listening to it in his head in his earbud. He had an ear, he had earbuds before earbuds were popular. He has a little transistor radio or whatever you call it, I don't know what you call it Little hand like you could carry the radio with you, plug in your earphone and listen to it. He would sit in his recliner and just listen. He loved the Reds. My mother loved the Reds. My mother loved Pete Rose, uh. So, yeah, rest in peace, pete rose. Uh.
Speaker 1:We're gonna move on to the next story, which is um, dozens of huge craters discovered at the bottom of this great lake. Scientists want to know how they got there. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. A Great Lake has an even greater mystery. For the New York Post, dozens of massive 600-foot-wide sinkholes have recently been discovered 500 feet below Lake Michigan, but how they got there remains a head-scratcher. Back in 2022, the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary detected the anomaly through sonar. Last month, a new remote expedition was sent to its section of water 14 miles southeast of Sheboygan, wisconsin. There's now a geological question in mind how did they form? Why are they there, specifically in the bedrock? We're all scratching our heads wondering what could these things be? Well, they're sinkholes, they just told you. Right now.
Speaker 1:Cullen, who noted a slim 10 to 15 percent of Lake Michigan's massive floor has has been explored, pontificates a potential connection to the underwater gorges being formed by glaciers century ago. Centuries ago, however, local shipwreck hunter brendan boylan told live science he isn't ready to call the underwater phenomena sinkholes just yet. I think they might be more accurately called craters, he said, explaining that they may be the result of trapped gas or water upwelling toward the surface. Wow, that would be interesting. Don't you think these things gonna blow? I don't know. Uh, so there you go. There's some. I think they found some other ones in Lake Huron as well. Interesting indeed.
Speaker 1:All right, here we go, the last topic for the day. You can't have anything nice. New York City's first smart basketball hoop stripped of internet features for this reason and you can guess what reason that is. First of all, why is there a? What is a smart basketball hoop and why is there one in New York City? Well, I guess hopefully we'll find out in this story from the New York Post.
Speaker 1:The city's first public smart basketball hoop has been stripped of its internet live streaming feature, at least partly because New Yorkers can't be trusted not to do something obscene for the camera, of course. A hoop H-U-U-P-E donated by its manufacturer to Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park last month had to be disconnected from the net under its agreement with the city, because of concerns over content streaming. Hoop CEO Paul Anton said well, what did you expect? Come on, the move comes. A couple of months after a virtual portal, gizmo, set up in Manhattan's Flatiron District, linked New York City to Dublin, ireland, through a 24-7 live stream and had to be shut down in less than a week over some user's raunchy behavior. People don't know how to behave. They think that's funny and hilarious to do something raunchy and lewd and obscene. This is the society we live in. This is the culture. Now, in the case of Hoop, the streaming shutdown also means users are blocked from using its backboard screen.
Speaker 1:Unique functions such as watching youtube, receiving on-demand training and playing with others from world, from around the world. The main point of the hoop is shot tracking above all else, so there was a desire to focus on that for kids and athletes, as the shot tracking really promotes physical activity more than anything else. Company CEO Paul Anton said Not that many Tompkins players notice the feature. They don't have access to anyways. The hoop hasn't been wildly popular for a myriad of reasons. Locals say the East Village Park was chosen to house the hoop because of the green spaces, electrical access near the courts, a rep for the city parks department said, and Anton insisted. The device sees thousands of shots made per day, mainly from young players.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's kind of creepy, though if you're watching kids. Oh, I don't know that this is a good idea, probably not. I mean, come on, just give them a freaking basketball hoop. That's all they need. They know how to play basketball. Oh, whatever, all right. Well, it's october first. How about that and you know what that also means.
Speaker 1:The big debate tonight oh, I'm so excited over this damn debate and tim walsh is already putting stupid statements out there about oh, I've never done anything like this before. I'm nervous, I don't want to let my boss down. Blah, blah, blah, shut up, you old buffoon. You tampon Tim Tinaman, tim, ridiculous, flamboyant, stay away from the kids, tim.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I cannot stand this man. I wish I could really describe how I feel about him. I really dislike him a lot and I hope JD does not fall for this crap. Do not hold back JD. Hammer, hammer, hammer the F out of this MF-er. Just send him to his room. Okay, do it. Do not back down from him. Do not take it easy on him. I need you, jd Vance, to make masculine men great again. Screw him, do it. I am so excited. I've never been so excited over a damn debate than this one.
Speaker 1:I hope JD does well, I feel very confident today, but I'm starting to feel a little nervous. I hadn't felt nervous until just now. I felt very confident in JD about this debate coming up, but now that it's here, I am starting to get a little nervous. But I think it's going to be fine. I think it's going to be great. I think JD is going to be well prepared and I hope, I hope, I hope he slams the crap out of this Tim Walls character.
Speaker 1:Oh, he is just ridiculous. He's just ridiculous. People keep calling him flamboyant and that he's gay, and you know, fine, I don't care about people being gay. I think it's quite offensive to the gay people to call Tim Walls gay, because he's way more than gay. I get the feeling and I trust me, I know my feelings I get the creepiest feeling vibes from him. You just, I'll just say this keep him away from the children. Okay, If you know what I'm saying and I think you do. All right, I have to go. Oh, wait, wait, wait. We have a question of the day because Mr Sean's submitted a fantastic question of the day. I just need to just ask you guys for the questions of the day, because you come up with some great ones, mine I struggle with. All right, here is Mr Sean's question of the day.
Speaker 1:When was the first time you spent at least three days away from home without your parents, and where did you go and did you miss them? All right, I think the first time I spent three days away from my parents is when I went on a field trip to Washington DC. I was still in elementary school, so that was what maybe fifth or sixth grade, and we went to Washington D, washington DC. I don't remember much about the trip except that I got to wear a safety Remember those orange safety belt things that you could wear Cause it was like the safety patrol, I think that was it. I think when I went with the safety patrol group and we got to wear a little orange belt things.
Speaker 1:And what I remember most about the trip is when we went about the trip is we went to the Capitol. We went inside the Capitol, took a tour. We got to see the floor where the president gives the State of the Union, where the Congress people meet, where the senators meet I guess that's what it's called. I don't know what that room is called, but you know what I'm talking about where they give the State of the Union. We got to go in there and see that room. I remember that as a kid and that's the first place I visited. Once I joined the Navy and was stationed in DC. When I finally got settled in DC and got my rhythm and whereabouts of the DC area. That's one of the first places I went to go visit again and it was just amazing, if you ever.
Speaker 1:I don't know what DC is like now, but if you can make a trip there, go. If you can make a trip there, go. Just be safe and careful. You know, research, where you need to stay and all that, uh, but, yeah, and pay a little extra money to stay in the extra to stay in the better part, okay, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1:But when I was there, 18 years old, that was a long time ago, 40-something years ago, gosh, and it was fine. It was fine. We didn't have, there was not a lot of crap going on. I felt safe. But then again, I was 18 and probably stupid, not paying attention to my surroundings. But, uh, yeah, it was fine. All right, I have to go.
Speaker 1:That was, oh, the other parts of the question.
Speaker 1:Well, you know where I went?
Speaker 1:Uh, that was the first time. And did I miss my parents? I missed, I'll say this, I missed aspects of my life, my life maybe I don't think I was aware of, of I, I don't. It's kind of weird to explain. I don't even remember the hotel we all stayed in. I don't remember who I was, who we went with. I mean, obviously I went with my safety patrol. I don't remember the teachers, so I don't know. I felt, I felt like I missed my home, my, my, my familiar surroundings is what I kind of missed the most, probably. I know that sounds weird, but I don't think I was gone long enough. We were gone for three days, obviously, but because the travel, the tour, then travel back, cause we went via bus, it was three days. Um, so, yeah, that well, that's my answer. That's what I'm sticking to. All right, thanks for listening you guys. I'll be back tomorrow with post debate recaps, even though you're going to hear it all over the news. I'm excited tonight. Um, all right, got to go. Thanks for listening. Bye.
