Q: What happened to Art “Madman” Mehring, who did traffic on WGST? He also did Z93. Is he still in town and what does he do now?
— Patrick Frossard, Smyrna
A: Mehring works for the Total Traffic & Weather Network, where he does traffic reports for 640 WGST, 94.9 The Bull, Radio 105.7, The Bear 92.5 FM, iHeart Radio and four stations in Charleston, S.C., he told Q&A on the News in a Facebook message. He also does traffic for Atlanta's 92.9 The Game, which used to be Z93. "(It's) almost like being home again," he wrote. Mehring also is a certified divemaster and volunteer scuba diver at the Georgia Aquarium, where he performs "maintenance dives throughout the aquarium and dive shows in the Ocean Voyager habitat," he wrote.
Q: Why don’t the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have their players’ last names on the jerseys, like other teams?
— Frank Gonzalez, Kennesaw
A: Tradition is the reason the Yankees and Red Sox don't put their players' last names on the back of the jerseys. Teams didn't put names on jerseys until 1960, when Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck began doing it, but the Yankees and Red Sox didn't join the movement. The Red Sox have since added names to the back of their road uniforms, but not their home uniforms. The Yankees don't put names on the back of either uniform. Like the Red Sox, the San Francisco Giants also don't put names on their home jerseys.
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