I consider today the start of the college football season. That makes me happy. The hometown team, the Syracuse Orange, starts on the road. No trip up to the Carrier Dome for my dear wife Karen and I. But we do like the spirit show around our home digs. May your team have good fortune.…
There’s something about seeing the Mets and the Yankees get together. Even when the Mets are struggling badly, losers of eight straight, and the Yankees could be the best team in baseball. On Sunday night in the Mets’ house, there were still more Mets fans in the joint than Yankees fans. I’d call the Citi…
So how did I prepare in the final run for today’s start of the new golf league that KP and I will play in for the first time at Foxfire Golf Course? Did I practice for hours at a driving range? Find a grassy patch to pitch or putt? Imagine the perfect swing plane in…
Tuesday was sunny and warm, so we stood by the first tee of Timber Banks ready to play spring golf in Central New York again. Never before had we started our golf season off with two rounds on consecutive days, I thought as KP and I prepared to hit our first shots on the Jack…
Don’t think that I skipped bowling this season. I just haven’t shared about the exploits of our Limp Lizard squad in the Thursday Night Men’s League at Bowling Green in North Syracuse, N.Y. You see, I got off to such a bad start way back in September … Putrid, really. As in, after the first…
The 2018 baseball season starts today. My New York Mets open at home in CitiField against the St. Louis Cardinals. That familiar feeling of hope washes over me again. Can this be our year? From my dear wife Karen and I’s visit to Cooperstown, I bring you a doggone good memory above … And then…
The big boss was smiling, with a well-loved red book in her hand. The director of the library had spied it in our lobby used book sale and bought it for me. The precious edition came out in 1965, when the New York Mets were 3 years old and I was 8. I loved them…
Surprise, said the text from my dear wife Karen. She’d purchased me a gift to kick off my Birthday Week celebration in very big style. This year’s edition of the Syracuse Chiefs Hot Stove Dinner would feature a visit of some very special New York Mets. And I was now the proud owner of a…
The five-buck ticket was worth it. My fantastic daughter Elisabeth, her sensational significant George Three and I had a fine time for the season finale at the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon. We started with a visit to the quad, watching a bit of the Pride of the Orange marching band and scoring some free chocolate…
The sign I spy every day while I walk from my workplace at the library for my second cup of coffee from Nichols across First Street finally pulled me in last Saturday. My old pal first met at the big daily, Bake, met me a few minutes before game time. My dear wife Karen joined…
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