Clubhouse, games under construction at Green Lakes and PGA

This hasn’t been the busiest golfing season for KP and I. My great friend and I got off to a great start, with Tater and our discount coupons from the winter Syracuse Golf Show in hand to play three of the nicest courses in the area before mid-June. Since then, though, we’d squeezed in just…

At the Blog of Funny Names, there’s a Festivus …

How often do the worlds of the New York Mets and Jerry Seinfeld collide? More than you’d think. The funny guy grew up on Long Island, a couple towns and a few years from me. He, too, has remained an avid Mets rooter. Remember first baseman Keith Hernandez showing up on Jerry’s sitcom on a…

Goodbye Frank Gifford, from A Fan’s Notes to Kathie Lee’s swoons, we knew you so well

Frank Gifford died Sunday, the voice on the TV said. I was watching the Mets broadcast. But it could have been an entertainment show, or a morning talkie, or a football game. Even a show about books, if such things even exist these days. Yes, the Giffer cut a wide swath in his 84 years,…

I’m glad there’s crying in baseball

My Mets lost last night, but even during a pennant race, that wasn’t the big story. Wilmer Flores got tears in his eyes. On the field. During the game. He couldn’t hide it from the TV cameras. There is crying baseball, Tom Hanks’ crusty manager Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own. And that…

Are you ready for some football?

NFL training camps open before the month ends. I was sent on a pigskin chase already. Yeah, I’m ready. As deadlines have it, my September story for Central New York the Good Life Magazine is in the Double-D category. Due and Done. My story will touch on Central New York football fever, Fridays through Sundays.…

Pete Rose, the sight of you makes me sad, and a bit angry

As all of baseball returns to the diamonds across America today to commence the races for division titles and wild cards and the playoffs that will lead us to the World Series, I’d like to take one more deep All-Star Break breath and ponder Pete Rose with you all. Yeah, the American League team will…

Sublimely, the seven savor the 6 p.m. sun …

Enough about the slow play and the waiting and setting sun and my grouchiness about all of the above. This week the little golf league got off on time, both foursomes from the first tee at Northern Pines on the northeast outskirts of Syracuse. Yes, there was a bit of a bottleneck at the second…

A great, beautiful, sad baseball game

I’ll call the 1 p.m. start the Syracuse Chiefs Triple-A baseball organization offered this past weekday a Business Person’s Special. My buddies Dave, Steven T. and I snuck off on Monday to NBT Bank Stadium on the north side of Syracuse to catch some increasingly rare early afternoon American pastime. Yes, call it a Throwback…

Planely speaking, Citi Field was on the right path

On the inbound path to Citi Field, my dear wife Karen and I along with fellow New York Mets lover and good friend Steve Vicik Jr. and his lovely wife Kristen passed a whole lot of access to La Guardia Airport. Yes, Flushing Meadows is right next to one of the Big Apple’s major air…

Plenty of neat places at Mets’ Citi Field

The first time my dear wife Karen and I caught a game at Citi Field, they won behind a one-hitter by R.A. Dickey, the day after Johann Santana pitched the first and still only no-hitter in our beloved New York Mets’ history. But that was on a tour bus trip from Syracuse just a little…