Another year has come and gone, and we find ourselves arriving at June 4 of the year 2023. It is the 14th anniversary of Randy Johnson's 300th career win; the holiday I've been celebrating ever year on this date. Well, I personally spent the day hanging out at a My Little Pony convention in Chicago. It was great fun, but now I'm writing this in the O'Hare airport watching as my red eye flight out of Chicago get delayed already over ten hours out. Hooray!
Meanwhile I still have the losing pitchers of Randy Johnson memorized, as I keep refreshing my memory by reciting the wins every time I harvest fruits in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. (I have 620 fruits to harvest, which is enough to go through each of Randy's wins twice through. I recite the final score the first time around then the date the second time around, while naming the losing pitcher every time.) My journey to get the autographs of the losing pitchers on their cards have definitely slowed, as private signings rarely include these losing pitchers and my autograph by mail attempts have hit dead ends. I did manage to get the autograph of Ricky Bones (win number 117 on July 18, 1997) in person at a Nationals vs. Mets game. I have also passed the halfway mark as I now have 164 signatures, although the last half is going to be so much harder.
