Casey Stengel (1890-1975) managed the New York Yankees to 10 World Series championships during baseball’s Golden Age. He also managed the historically bad NY Mets for four seasons of last-place finishes. During interviews, Stengel conversed using “Stengelese”, a “dialect” described as “utterances that concealed nuggets of wisdom in a dense matrix of dizzying gibberish.” On players having sex the night before a big game, he said, “Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.” Stengelese works well to describe my HVAC system. It usually runs like the 1950s Yankees but at times, it stumbles along like those early Mets teams. Stengel’s quote, “Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.”, could apply to any HVAC system. There are many good brands to choose from, but a proper installation followed by a rigid maintenance and cleaning program can prove difficult for some. Another bit of Stengelese is, “…there’s three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” With HVAC, the three things are to heat, cool, or sit idle waiting to be repaired by a qualified HVAC technician. Stengel is credited with saying, “No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.” In the HVAC version of Stengelese, that may refer to the filtration system that “catches” dust and particulates from entering the unit making it not “worth a darn”. I’ll leave any HVAC repairs to HVAC pros who know what they are doing. Stengelese taught me that by saying, “Sometimes it’s easier to understand things than it is to figure them out”.
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