Casey Stengel (1890-1970) managed the New York Yankees to 10 World Series championships during baseball’s Golden Age.
- He also managed the historically bad NY Mets for more than three 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 evening before a sizable game, he said, “Being with a woman all evening never hurt no professional baseball player, however it’s staying up all evening looking for a woman that does him in.” Stengelese works well to describe our Heating and A/C system.
It usually runs like the 1950s Yankees but at times, it stumbles along like those early Mets teams… Stengel’s quote, “Finding superb players is easy, but getting them to play as a team is another story.”, could apply to any Heating and A/C system. There are several superb brands to choose from, but a regular replacement followed by a rigid repair and cleaning program can prove difficult for some, and another bit of Stengelese is, “…there’s 3 things you can do in a baseball game: You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” With Heating and A/C, the 3 things are to heat, cool, or sit idle waiting to be repaired by a qualified Heating and A/C serviceman. Stengel is credited with saying, “No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.” In the Heating and A/C version of Stengelese, that may refer to the filtration system that “catches” dust and particulates from entering the component making it not “worth a darn”. I’ll leave any Heating and A/C repairs to Heating and A/C pros who think what they are doing. Stengelese taught me that by saying, “Occasionally it’s easier to understand things than it is to figure them out”.