Mark Aumann
@maumann.bsky.social
Retired sportswriter, which now means I can analyze my Detroit Tigers, Florida Gators and attend the Indy 500 every May. Spent much of my life in radio stations. #AT40 #Tigers #Indy500 #UF
The only reason to keep watching is to see if the Gators keep their scoring streak alive. It's not looking likely.
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The only reason to keep watching is to see if the Gators keep their scoring streak alive. It's not looking likely.
When I grow up, I want to be a Pip! #AT40
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
When I grow up, I want to be a Pip! #AT40
A song that gets more poignant as I grow old and gray. When you're 15, you don't even consider the fact that you and the people you know won't live forever. It's almost like Ringo was singing about John and George. #AT40
And my favorite Ringo song at #4. Photograph
I can't get used to living here while my heart is broke
My tears I cried for you
I want you here to have and hold as the years go by
And we grow old and grey. #AT40
I can't get used to living here while my heart is broke
My tears I cried for you
I want you here to have and hold as the years go by
And we grow old and grey. #AT40
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A song that gets more poignant as I grow old and gray. When you're 15, you don't even consider the fact that you and the people you know won't live forever. It's almost like Ringo was singing about John and George. #AT40
Apparently they fly to their next gig on those shirt collars. #AT40
The DeFranco Family - "Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat" inches up a spot to #3. #AT40
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DeFranco Family: Heartbeat, Its A Lovebeat 1973
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November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Apparently they fly to their next gig on those shirt collars. #AT40
Oh, the sleeveless sweater vests with the round necks! Absolutely screams 1973. #AT40
1973 church directory photo, just the kids. I am sure the boys wore those outfits exactly once to the photo shoot.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Oh, the sleeveless sweater vests with the round necks! Absolutely screams 1973. #AT40
The RV park in Palmetto, Fla., where we spend winters is right off Highway 41. Lord, I was born a ramblin' man. #AT40
Reminder that on the ( thankfully fewer and fewer days now) days I go into the office I am always rolling down Highway 41 for a bit. No unknown births in the back seat to date however #AT40
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The RV park in Palmetto, Fla., where we spend winters is right off Highway 41. Lord, I was born a ramblin' man. #AT40
As was my mother in law! Small world. We've gone back to Grand Rapids. Gwen's mother lived close enough to the Gumps where they played together before Judy moved to California.
To put everything in context I was born in the same city as Judy Garland. #AT40
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As was my mother in law! Small world. We've gone back to Grand Rapids. Gwen's mother lived close enough to the Gumps where they played together before Judy moved to California.
1973? I celebrated my 15th birthday by washing the dog. Schlitz (schnauzers need a good German name) wouldn't let anyone else pick him up, let alone scrub-a-dub-dub. I see I'm getting into my rebellious hair stage! #AT40
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
1973? I celebrated my 15th birthday by washing the dog. Schlitz (schnauzers need a good German name) wouldn't let anyone else pick him up, let alone scrub-a-dub-dub. I see I'm getting into my rebellious hair stage! #AT40
And North Gwinnett and Brookwood are about 10 miles apart. So Brookwood and Lowndes could have played near the Buc-ee's outside of Warner Robins and saved themselves the trouble. GHSAA is one stupid group.
Valdosta hammered a pretty good Brookwood team and will host a state quarterfinal next Friday. There will be football practice on Thanksgiving, an old Valdosta tradition.
Unfortunately for Lowndes the season ends against an excellent North Gwinnett squad.
Unfortunately for Lowndes the season ends against an excellent North Gwinnett squad.
Second round Georgia High School football playoffs are tonight. Our Valdosta Wildcats are hosting while our Lowndes Vikings have to make a 510 mile r/t to metro Atlanta. (Travel distances in football playoffs here are absurd). 🏈🏈
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And North Gwinnett and Brookwood are about 10 miles apart. So Brookwood and Lowndes could have played near the Buc-ee's outside of Warner Robins and saved themselves the trouble. GHSAA is one stupid group.
Crocker Bank! My first checking account was with them. And yeah, the Bay Area was a very screwed up place in the 1970s. #AT40
I realize that everyone loves We've Only Just Begun, but try to have sympathy for those of us traumatized by a local Crocker Bank robbery with Patty Hearst involved and the murder of a member of my husband's church. #AT40
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Crocker Bank! My first checking account was with them. And yeah, the Bay Area was a very screwed up place in the 1970s. #AT40
Does it feel like the first time? Are you a long, long way from home? This sounds urgent.
#at40 Doctor, I alternate between being hot blooded and being cold as ice. I also have double vision.
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Does it feel like the first time? Are you a long, long way from home? This sounds urgent.
And clips the F-word for G-rated audiences.
Like the great Who’s Next, the Who Are You long player closes with an 8 minute track, released as a single, where it would be sliced to shreds. #AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
And clips the F-word for G-rated audiences.
You and I had the same thought!
Reminiscing about Glenn Miller’s Band in 1978 is like T-Swift singing about TLC in 2025. #AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You and I had the same thought!
Well, the picture is changing now you're part of a crowd
They're laughing at something, and the music's loud
A girl comes towards you, you once used to know
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone in those
Time passages
(That verse always gets to me)
They're laughing at something, and the music's loud
A girl comes towards you, you once used to know
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone in those
Time passages
(That verse always gets to me)
And here's one of best songs ever written. Iconic. Evocative.
Time Passages.
Loved it at 12 but I didn't get it yet.
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Time Passages.
Loved it at 12 but I didn't get it yet.
#AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Well, the picture is changing now you're part of a crowd
They're laughing at something, and the music's loud
A girl comes towards you, you once used to know
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone in those
Time passages
(That verse always gets to me)
They're laughing at something, and the music's loud
A girl comes towards you, you once used to know
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone in those
Time passages
(That verse always gets to me)
Yeah, "It paid for my mansion but I cringe every time I get on an elevator and Time Passages is playing."
I saw Al Stewart a decade ago and he complained (good naturedly) about still having to sing "Time Passages," which he considered a trifle. Said it was like Chuck Berry having his biggest hit with "My Ding A Ling." #AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yeah, "It paid for my mansion but I cringe every time I get on an elevator and Time Passages is playing."
"Time Passages!" I love this song, but Al Stewart said his record label wanted another song that sounded like "Year Of The Cat" instead of his insistence of writing songs about historical events. So he wrote music you'll hear in every dentist's office today. #AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Time Passages!" I love this song, but Al Stewart said his record label wanted another song that sounded like "Year Of The Cat" instead of his insistence of writing songs about historical events. So he wrote music you'll hear in every dentist's office today. #AT40
And as a young radio guy, I got to play all the music that creates those same memories for Gen X. Music is our universal connection. Thank you for tuning in.
Getting old is not fun.
BUT, a blessing of being Gen X is that we have the full range of music we were exposed to. Because we had radio, we actually listened to the music from generations before ours. It was unavoidable, not that we wanted to avoid it.
So we got all of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s,
BUT, a blessing of being Gen X is that we have the full range of music we were exposed to. Because we had radio, we actually listened to the music from generations before ours. It was unavoidable, not that we wanted to avoid it.
So we got all of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s,
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
And as a young radio guy, I got to play all the music that creates those same memories for Gen X. Music is our universal connection. Thank you for tuning in.
Fall of 1978? I'm in my junior year at the University of Florida, finally working air shifts at WRUF-AM. And sporting serious bushy hair (shaved off the beard that made me look like the Burger King). #AT40
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Fall of 1978? I'm in my junior year at the University of Florida, finally working air shifts at WRUF-AM. And sporting serious bushy hair (shaved off the beard that made me look like the Burger King). #AT40