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Regarding today's "real game." #MetsSky. This word, "real," I do not think it means what you think it means.

I'm excited; we're all excited, but let's keep it "real." The only real thing about today's game and the next 20 or so is the regular season pricing of tickets and concessions.

#Mets #LGM

Bosque Trail: The Night Time is the Right Time Each personal social circle is different; the folks/family with whom I spend time generally think I'm at least a little crazy for riding my bicycle places. That sentiment of crazy is pretty much never expressed until it comes to me riding at night. Then the "I can put your bike in my truck and take you home" question/suggestion is sure to arrive, like nocturnal clockwork, every single time.

Bosque Trail: The Night Time is the Right Time

Each personal social circle is different; the folks/family with whom I spend time generally think I'm at least a little crazy for riding my bicycle places. That sentiment of crazy is pretty much never expressed until it comes to me riding at night.…

Free Walking/Rolling at Winrock Mall I'd like to report this as "Winrock Mall closes street to vehicular traffic to create pedestrian mall," but the fact drivers can't turn from Pennsylvania NE into Winrock isn't about us/that. Well, at least directly. While I very much enjoyed seeing drivers prevented from turning off Pennsylvania NE into Winrock while I took this photo yesterday, the reason for closure is…

Free Walking/Rolling at Winrock Mall

I'd like to report this as "Winrock Mall closes street to vehicular traffic to create pedestrian mall," but the fact drivers can't turn from Pennsylvania NE into Winrock isn't about us/that. Well, at least directly. While I very much enjoyed seeing drivers…

If you've never had the patronizing, soul crushing experience of being in a Special Education classroom, watching Peacock announcers of mixed doubles curling right now is an excellent example of what it's like. #curling #olympics

Roadways and the Two Types of Presidential Protest For reasons that are all too painfully needed, everywhere you look these days there seems to be another protest of the worst president ever. I support them all and have attended a few so far, looking forward to both the next one and the time, seemingly way, way down the road these days, where we don't need to have these protests anymore.

Roadways and the Two Types of Presidential Protest

For reasons that are all too painfully needed, everywhere you look these days there seems to be another protest of the worst president ever. I support them all and have attended a few so far, looking forward to both the next one and the time,…

Btw, here's the link to the White House Correspondents' Association contact page: whca.press/contact/?

Cycling at the edge of the Paseo/Unser Universe Apologies to folks who consider the edge of the universe home, but riding buddy and I rode bicycles out to the edge of the universe yesterday, i.e., Paseo del Norte and Universe/Rainbow/Unser. The route went something like this: No, we were not drunk (thanks for asking), riding buddy and I just tend to ride crazily inefficient routes for a number of reasons not including inebriation.

Cycling at the edge of the Paseo/Unser Universe

Apologies to folks who consider the edge of the universe home, but riding buddy and I rode bicycles out to the edge of the universe yesterday, i.e., Paseo del Norte and Universe/Rainbow/Unser. The route went something like this: No, we were not drunk…

Ode to Silver Bike Boulevard Your humble blogger told an outrageous fib the other day. I declared that the City of Albuquerque has zero bike infrastructure signs pointing out landmarks and such. Not true! As shown in this horribly out-of-focus photo I took yesterday, the City's Silver Bike Boulevard has the occasional sign such as this one. We could point out that the info on the sign above isn't terribly important, particularly for cyclists and that the sign was obviously created and installed by people who don't ride bicycles, but we're not doing that.

Ode to Silver Bike Boulevard

Your humble blogger told an outrageous fib the other day. I declared that the City of Albuquerque has zero bike infrastructure signs pointing out landmarks and such. Not true! As shown in this horribly out-of-focus photo I took yesterday, the City's Silver Bike…

This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.

Wonder why that is.

That Wacky Bike Lane at San Mateo and I-40 Here's something you probably don't hear much in coversations between Albuquerque cyclists... "Yeah, yesterday I was out for a ride and took that bike lane on San Mateo at I-40." Did you know there's a bike lane on San Mateo Blvd.? I only know because I was staring at the .pdf version of the City's bike map last night and came across:

That Wacky Bike Lane at San Mateo and I-40

Here's something you probably don't hear much in coversations between Albuquerque cyclists... "Yeah, yesterday I was out for a ride and took that bike lane on San Mateo at I-40." Did you know there's a bike lane on San Mateo Blvd.? I only know because I…

Newbie here. Does team not throwing rock have brushing dominion once rock is past the T-Line? Or is it up for grabs as seen here?

I'm rooting Einarson, right down to the letter "a."

Fangraphs has Benge, the biggest unknown, at an OPS projection at .622. Even if Robert Jr. (and Semian) reverted significantly back to their glory days, this lineup is NOT better than in 2025. It's just not. Given the unknowns, I'm not even sure the fielding will be better.

News Not Found in the “News” As it appears, again for the billionth time, that a statement by our current president will not be passed along by any major news organization in this country, BB will fill in the gap by passing it along to the seven, eight on a good day, readers of this blog. Trump: "Somalia -- they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought.

News Not Found in the “News”

As it appears, again for the billionth time, that a statement by our current president will not be passed along by any major news organization in this country, BB will fill in the gap by passing it along to the seven, eight on a good day, readers of this blog. Trump:…

El Paso Signage Every time I visit a city, I take a picture like this one and wonder, again, for the umpteenth time "Why doesn't Albuquerque have signs like this?" It really isn't that hard or expensive, folks. We can do this. And yes, if you squint you can see that the "Murchinson Drive Bikeway" doesn't really have the greatest bike lane and I experienced some of the same infrastructural shortcomings this weekend in El Paso that we have in Burque. But El Paso has these signs and we don't. Put your ideas for best ABQ places and landmarks noted via such signs in the comments.

El Paso Signage

Every time I visit a city, I take a picture like this one and wonder, again, for the umpteenth time "Why doesn't Albuquerque have signs like this?" It really isn't that hard or expensive, folks. We can do this. And yes, if you squint you can see that the "Murchinson Drive Bikeway"…

New Mexico Oil’s Boomiest Boom As my friends will tell you, I spend WAY too much time looking and obsessing over how much crude oil is produced in New Mexico. Hey, we all need hobbies. from the U.S. Energy Information Administration Neighbor Texas continues to dominate in terms of totals, but let's look at oil production per capita. Barrels produced per day per person by selected States:

New Mexico Oil’s Boomiest Boom

As my friends will tell you, I spend WAY too much time looking and obsessing over how much crude oil is produced in New Mexico. Hey, we all need hobbies. from the U.S. Energy Information Administration Neighbor Texas continues to dominate in terms of totals, but…

Larry Stoehr and Claremont NE at San Mateo Blvd Larry Stoehr was killed while cycling at Claremont and San Mateo last November 14th. I didn't know about it for several weeks, as I've been practicing the same form of mental health news curation many of us have chosen to remain at least somewhat sane in these extremely challenging times. Not to make this about me, merely to explain gaps in my keeping up with the news, I also only very recently discovered that a HAWK signal was installed on Gibson Blvd in front of the new Gateway Center back in 2024.

Larry Stoehr and Claremont NE at San Mateo Blvd

Larry Stoehr was killed while cycling at Claremont and San Mateo last November 14th. I didn't know about it for several weeks, as I've been practicing the same form of mental health news curation many of us have chosen to remain at least somewhat…

Just wondering. Did we fix the ACA subsidy thing yet? Or release the full Epstein files? Because otherwise this invade this and credit card that are the very Reality TV president bullshit they are intended to be.

@zzbenz.bsky.social & Santa Fe friends...

Protestors, ICE clash at Albuquerque DHS facility • Source New Mexico An Albuquerque protest Friday over the death of Renee Good at an ICE facility turned physical and resulted in detention for two protesters

At a small demonstration in Albuquerque protesting the death of Renee Good at a federal immigration facility, two people were detained, an agent used pepper spray and the crowd of about 20 was declared an "illegal assembly" and ordered to disperse or face arrest.

Visiting El Paso and Streetcar-Oriented Tourism Getting out of town over MLK, Jr. Weekend and heading down to the West Texas town of El Paso (cue Marty Robbins). My first visit of substance and I'm really looking forward to riding this: Courtesy Creative Commons creator "B575" That's an El Paso Streetcar. Whenever I drive someplace, I'm a park the car and forget it kinda person. Bringing the bicycle, of course, to El Paso and will walk plenty of places there, but our neighbor to the south also has these streetcars, and I naturally am staying about two blocks from a streetcar stop.

Visiting El Paso and Streetcar-Oriented Tourism

Getting out of town over MLK, Jr. Weekend and heading down to the West Texas town of El Paso (cue Marty Robbins). My first visit of substance and I'm really looking forward to riding this: Courtesy Creative Commons creator "B575" That's an El Paso…

That “No E-Bikes” Sign in the Bosque Deciding to obtain and ride an e-bike adds a plethora of legal, moral, ethical, and sociological complexities to one's life. That is to say e-bikes are heavier, and not just because the battery weighs ten pounds. One of those trillion legal, moral, ethical, and sociological considerations is wordlessly expressed on this recently spotted sign:

That “No E-Bikes” Sign in the Bosque

Deciding to obtain and ride an e-bike adds a plethora of legal, moral, ethical, and sociological complexities to one's life. That is to say e-bikes are heavier, and not just because the battery weighs ten pounds. One of those trillion legal, moral, ethical, and…

Wanna Read a Really Good Book About Albuquerque? I believe the current parlance for the following statement seems to be "saying the quiet part out loud." Statement: Why aren't there any really good books about Albuquerque? Up to now, pretty much every book about Burque or New Mexico is either one of treacly, rose-colored "history" non-investigations into "colorful" (that word is very popular in this genre) folks/cultures like Elfego Baca, Clyde Tingley, Billy the Kid, or "The Wild West," or a sober analysis, either fictional or not, that reads like a phone book or instructional manual and has the analytical depth of the Rio Grande in August 2025.

Wanna Read a Really Good Book About Albuquerque?

I believe the current parlance for the following statement seems to be "saying the quiet part out loud." Statement: Why aren't there any really good books about Albuquerque? Up to now, pretty much every book about Burque or New Mexico is either one…

Best Rides of ’25: LA and L. Ron Hubbard Way So very often the best bike rides are also the most ill-considered. After 16 straight hours of sitting on Amtrak from ABQ to Los Angeles, I decided to eschew sanely putting the loaded bike on a Metro train out to my AirBnB in Santa Monica and, instead, rode the damn thing straight from Union Station thus: Pretty much no sleep on the train overnight, riding streets I've never traveled (in any form of transport), and in a town as renown for car-centricity as any on Planet Earth.

Best Rides of ’25: LA and L. Ron Hubbard Way

So very often the best bike rides are also the most ill-considered. After 16 straight hours of sitting on Amtrak from ABQ to Los Angeles, I decided to eschew sanely putting the loaded bike on a Metro train out to my AirBnB in Santa Monica and, instead,…

Living in the Present with John Prine "I'm leaning against a cherry-red 1977 Coupe de Ville at a Citgo station in Gulfport, Florida, waiting for the car's owner to emerge from the attached convenience store." Thus begins Tom Piazza's slim, yet rich time spent with American treasure John Prine. In 184 pages, Piazza gets to the heart of many things in retelling his painfully brief tenure as authorized Prine biographer before the subject left us in 2020.

Living in the Present with John Prine

"I'm leaning against a cherry-red 1977 Coupe de Ville at a Citgo station in Gulfport, Florida, waiting for the car's owner to emerge from the attached convenience store." Thus begins Tom Piazza's slim, yet rich time spent with American treasure John Prine. In…

This Past Week’s Public Meeting on Lomas Blvd. In the good 'ol Pandemic Days of 2020 we would have called this week's Lomas Blvd. Safety Improvement public meeting a "COVID Party." About 100 folks were crammed into the small "Learners' Chess" board game training center to see some info boards, try to talk/hear some consultants and City folks, and regret somewhat having left their N-95 mask back under a pile of other discarded items back at the house.

This Past Week’s Public Meeting on Lomas Blvd.

In the good 'ol Pandemic Days of 2020 we would have called this week's Lomas Blvd. Safety Improvement public meeting a "COVID Party." About 100 folks were crammed into the small "Learners' Chess" board game training center to see some info boards, try…

My New “Free” Membership in El Pueblo Train Track Crash Club Grouch Marx famously said he'd never join a club that would have him as a member, and it was my strong intention to never join this one. But yesterday afternoon I made a bad decision that left me joining the very large number of cyclists in Albuquerque's informal El Pueblo Train Track Crash Club:

My New “Free” Membership in El Pueblo Train Track Crash Club

Grouch Marx famously said he'd never join a club that would have him as a member, and it was my strong intention to never join this one. But yesterday afternoon I made a bad decision that left me joining the very large number of cyclists…

C'mon Stearns there are still plenty of Yankees players, managers we haven't got yet. Collect them all! Because we Met fans can never have enough Yankees.
#mets #lfgm

/sarcasm

Looking West atop Nine Mile Hill The road goes on *forever. Enjoy. *Actually, this road ends at the Rio Puerco about three miles west of this spot. But you get the idea.

Looking West atop Nine Mile Hill

The road goes on *forever. Enjoy. *Actually, this road ends at the Rio Puerco about three miles west of this spot. But you get the idea.

Importance of Underground Trails Residing in the far South Valley hinterlands beyond Rio Bravo Blvd, we locals go "to town" quite a bit, as the far South Valley doesn't have much in the way of "town." Myself a cycling local, the photo above shows an extremely important bit of active transportation routing that I take two or three, sometimes four times a week. No, I'm not referring to eastbound Rio Bravo Blvd., empty of vehicles in the photo above but usually chock-full of drivers treating the Boulevard as a highway or raceway.

Importance of Underground Trails

Residing in the far South Valley hinterlands beyond Rio Bravo Blvd, we locals go "to town" quite a bit, as the far South Valley doesn't have much in the way of "town." Myself a cycling local, the photo above shows an extremely important bit of active transportation…