{"id":179617,"date":"2026-02-21T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179617"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:46:08","slug":"respects-to-mr-uecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=179617","title":{"rendered":"Respects to Mr. Uecker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As readers know, I had great respect to Bob Uecker, the former St. Louis Cardinal (even a World Series ring!) who announced for the Milwaukee Brewers for more years than many of you have been alive. But what puts me in mind of him today is one of his best lines from “Major League II.” Why?<\/p>\n

Now, we all know (and in many cases virulently hate) the end points of Daylight Savings Time. Unless you live in a sorta-sane state like Arizona, every spring you lose an hour of sleep and every fall get an extra hour’s sleep. The excuse is always that “we get more daylight” – sometimes attributed to timing farm kids’ day so they can do more chores during the growing season, to the more modern “we get energy savings by not running lights as long”. Whatever.<\/p>\n

The solutions proposed are pretty simple, and they are THREE. (Now did the Lord say, \u201cFirst thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out.”\u00a0\u00a0Book of Armaments<\/a> \u00a0sorry, flashback)<\/p>\n

1) Live with it, bitch if you must.<\/p>\n

2) Stay on Standard time year-round<\/p>\n

3) Stay on Daylight Savings Time year-round.<\/p>\n

Simple, eh?\u00a0 Nope… there is a fourth.<\/p>\n

Re. George Steube, R-FL (yeah, had to be Floriduh… sorry Jeff), has proposed The Daylight Act of 2026. in it he proposes a permanent shift…\u00a0 of ONE HALF HOUR.<\/p>\n

Introduced to Congress earlier this month, the bill proposes doing away with daylight saving as we know it and splitting the difference. Instead of a twice-yearly change of one hour each time, it would shift U.S. time zones forward 30 minutes from the current standard time and leave them there permanently.<\/p>\n

A 2023 YouGov poll found that 62% of respondents agreed that they want to stop changing the clocks twice yearly. A 2025 Gallup poll\u00a0found that 54% of Americans also wanted to see the demise of DST; however, 48% preferred standard time all year, while 24% wanted permanent daylight saving time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s try a poll for “Who wants to meet at the middle and throw us off from almost everyone\u00a0 at the half hour?” If I’m selling squares on THAT poll, I’m keeping 0% support\u00a0 for myself. By the way, there are\u00a0 half hour off zones are limited to India, Afghanistan, and parts of Australia (although Nepal is 45 minutes off.)\u00a0 Everywhere else is at the hour – if it’s 6 AM THERE, it’s a round number of hours off HERE. No. Some countries like China may cover multiple time zones but choose to all be in one zone regardless of where you are – fine at least it makes some sense.<\/em><\/p>\n

Heck, you can hardly get other countries to agree what a half hour IS – half nine in England means an hour different than half nine does in Germany. But at least it’s the same number of hours off. We want to be like India and Afghanistan – really?<\/p>\n

Obviously some waterhead told Steube “we should compromise and split the difference”.\u00a0 Uh, no. Keep the freakin’ times synced, keep the world on a commonly accepted standard way of doing things.<\/p>\n

But for even proposing<\/em> it, Mr. Steube gets awarded the Bob Uecker Memorial “Trojan-Enz Boner of the Week Award”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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