The Sheila Variations

JLTA

Somehow, we cannot trace our steps, we made up a story that Julio Lugo has set up a tango school in the Dominican Republic, called The Julio Lugo Tango Academy. But you can just call it "JLTA". I have no idea how this joke came up but at some point we all were just crying with laughter about it. Saying to Julio, hesitantly, "You know, Julio, it's really great that you're so committed to tango ... it's really awesome to have outside interests ... but ... uhm ... don't you think you should concentrate on your game??"

But no. He cannot stop tango-ing. Tango is his life.

"I must pass on my love of tango to the younger generation."
"Yeah, but, Julio ... you've been making a lot of errors ... maybe you should put the tango on the back burner for a bit?"
"Tango is my life."
"Uhmmmm, okay, Julio, whatever you say."

We love our stupid jokes. We get so much mileage out of them.

Similar to the "Keep it goin' Dougie Fresh" 4-part harmony we would sing anytime Doug Mirabelli would come up to bat a couple summers ago. We still sing "Keep it goin' Dougie Fresh" ... because it is still funny to us. And yes, we all are still convinced that it was our singing that caused him to get a home run that sweltering night years ago. I mean, if you heard 4 siblings singing "Keep it goin' Dougie Fresh" in staggered harmonic lines of melody - wouldn't YOU hit a home run (even if it was just to make us stop??)?