Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Cleaning out the Inbox

   Time to clean the inbox again, and we start with a crazed Woodpecker in Massachusetts!

A Pileated Woodpecker has been attacking trees and homes for years in Rockport, Massachusetts, but the woodpecker has found a new target- windshields and side mirrors.

The bird is destroying vehicle glass and has driven locals to cover the glass by whatever means they can, as the theory goes that the woodpecker is seeing itself in the reflection and attacking!

The Ringer scores with the recollections of Bret Hart, who looks back to his match at Wrestlemania 13 with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as the "night everything changed".

The Hart-Austin match is rated by many as the greatest in WrestleMania history and was recently inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as the first match to enter the Hall.

With the induction, Hart became the first person to be inducted three times- as a single, in his match with Austin, and for his tag team with Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart.

The Athletic writes of the legacy of Gregg Popovich, who recently ended his twenty-nine-season run as the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.

Popovich won five NBA titles, and his over fourteen hundred wins is the all-time most in NBA history.

Popovich deserves his spot on the NBA coaches' Mount Rushmore, but his players rave about him for more than games won.

The Big Red Zone, a site devoted to the St.Louis Football Cardinals, writes the story of former Big Red running back Wayne Morris, who played eight seasons for the Cardinals after being drafted by them in 1976.

Morris finished his career with one season with the San Diego Chargers, finished his career with over 3,330 rushing yards, and his thirty-seven rushing touchdowns are still second in Cardinals team history.

A small business owner decided to test the theory that Americans will pay more for American made products and as the Yahoo article states- the results were "sobering".

Afina tested their top product- a shower head and after finding multiple American suppliers to provide the parts to make the shower head, the Chinese-made version was priced at $129 and the American-made piece was priced at $239.

The results?

After several days (the specific number wasn't mentioned) and over 25,000 visitors to the site- Afina sold 584 China manufactured versus Zero American style.

No love for the American style there.

The added cost came through the extra suppliers rather than one in China and an American version would be three times the cost, more than simply paying the Trump Tariff.







 

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