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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
Wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Is it windy enough out there for you? And let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.90 a bushel. 550lb Steer Calf not selling a lot, I'll tell you what did sell down at PAYS, three and four year old bred cows, black, black white face, $5,000 a head. Are you kidding? I'm not kidding. A butcher hog in Iowa 60ยข a pound, and a 100lb lamb that's fat is worth $2.71 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Today, baseball. Yep. You gotta know opening day for Major League Baseball is listen. The 2026 Major League Baseball regular season opens with a special opening night game on Wednesday, March 25, featuring the New York Yankees at the San Francisco Giants and the traditional full slate opening day with all the 28 other teams, well, it starts the next day, March 26.
OK Solberg:So you gotta realize that's only 2 weeks away. I haven't mentioned baseball for a while. I'm getting better, but it's time. And right after our bible verse, I'll share some more. Listen.
OK Solberg:Perfect one for baseball. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. 2nd Timothy 4:7
OK Solberg:To fight the good fight in baseball, you have to be ready to strike out, ground out, and fly out, but they just keep coming back to the plate. Listen, guys, what I found online on a warm summer evening somewhere in America, a father and son sit in the grandstand. Oh, man. The smell of popcorn, the crack of a bat, the slow rhythm of a game that has unfolded the same way for more than a century.
OK Solberg:Nine men on the field, one man at the plate, and a small white ball stitched together with exactly a 108 red stitches coming towards him faster than the eye can comfortably follow. This is baseball. Now to the casual observer, the game can seem, well, simple enough. Man throws a ball, another man swings a bat. But the truth is, well, the truth is something altogether different.
OK Solberg:Consider the pitcher. From the pitchin mound, the home plate is 60 feet 6 inches. No more, no less. A distance that was standardized in 1893 and still used today. And from that short stretch of dirt, the pitcher can hurl a baseball at 95 MPH. At that speed, the ball reaches the Batter in about 4/10's of a second.
OK Solberg:Now think about that. In those 4/10's of a second, the hitter must see the ball, judge its speed, determine whether it'll cross the strike zone, decide to sling, and move a wooden bat through the air with perfect timing, miss by an inch or a 1000's of a second, and you miss entirely, which explains why in the highest level of the game, the Major League Base ball, even the greatest finest hitters fail most of the time. A player who gets a hit 3 times out of 10, well, they're considered excellent. Excellent. Think about that.
OK Solberg:In almost any other profession, success 30% of the time might get you fired. In baseball, well, it might get you into the hall of fame. For more than the century, this game has echoed across sand lots and stadiums alike, played by boys on dusty fields and by legends beneath bright lights, nine innings, 27 outs, endless possibilities because in baseball, the next pitch could be anything, a strike, a walk, a home run, or history.
OK Solberg:And that there is the greatness of baseball. So guys, remember 2 weeks from today, full day of opening season, you gotta start early because every team has to play a 162 games. Yep. That's right. A 162 games.
OK Solberg:So until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.