As a life-long fan of the New York Mets, I have been through the ups and downs with that team, lasting through some terrible times in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s […]
Weekly Round-Up: April 10, 2022
This week was a bit of a challenge. I am still healing from my appendectomy and the ensuing complications, but the nice weather is calling me. I want to go out and […]
Book Review: If At First by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan – Game By Game
As the baseball season winds down, and my team is no longer competing, I look for ways to keep myself connected to the game while I wait for “next year.”. That usually […]
A Life-Long Mets Fan Visits Citifield for the First Time
I lived just outside of NYC for the first 39 years of my life. We moved away 16 years ago this October, and I haven’t been back much since then. Through it […]
Satisfying My Wanderlust: Summer of Travel in a Post-COVID World
As we rang in the New Year in St. Augustine, FL this past January, I didn’t think there was going to be much travel this year after that trip to Florida. COVID […]
Book Review: One Pitch Away by Mike Sowell – What Happened During & After the 1986 Baseball Season
Being a New York Mets fan, the 1986 baseball season was the ultimate high in my life. I say that even having had three children, that’s how much of a fanatic I […]
Book Review – Doc: A Memoir by Dwight Gooden and Ellis Henican – A Mets Fan’s Reflection on Dwight Gooden’s Struggles
I’ve been a Mets fan for as long as I can remember. I have a vague memory of watching a baseball game very young, on my parents’ black and white television in […]
Tom Seaver 1944-2020
Our heroes are slowly dying. I guess I’m at that age where that’s starting to happen. There have been a few deaths over the years that have left me stunned; people who […]
Corona Virus Diaries – July 24, 2020
We had our first Corona Virus death in the county on Wednesday. All we know was it was a male under 60 years old and not connected to a nursing home. Our […]
Musings for a Hot Afternoon: Sunday, July 19, 2020
We have a heat advisory here in the mountains – something that doesn’t happen too often. It’s 93°F here right now with only 43% humidity, so it actually doesn’t feel to bad […]
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