So I went back through my Facebook posts to try to put together a year in review. Here's what I came up with
January 3- I believe the children are our future...and that we are screwed (Keri D'Angelo)
This bleak look at tomorrow was inspired by a bunch of tweets from Kanye West fans who supposedly had never heard of his collaborator on his single Only One. It was some guy named Paul McCartney. Some of these dimwits actually suggested that thanks to the kind heart of Kanye, that this McCartney fellow would rise to fame. Well, one can only hope.
January 11-The Lions got robbed last week, the Cowboys got robbed this week, so does that mean the Packers get robbed next week?
If only sloppy officiating was the only problem facing the NFL. Wife beating, child beating, drunken driving, concussions etc, I was never more turned off by a sport than I was after the NFL's 2014 season. Little did I know when I posted this, that the worst was yet to come
January 27- And while I'm riled up about what the Islanders did to my Rangers tonight, I'd like to send a shoutout to all those "meteorologists" who told us that we were going to be buried in 6 feet of snow today. Seriously in my next life I'm coming back either as a weather person, GM of the Knicks, or WFAN afternoon drive host.
They were predicting the storm of the century. They closed down schools, even considered postponing that night's Islanders-Rangers clash at the Coliseum, but it was all for naught, we ended up with hardly anything. I suppose it's better to over estimate and be wrong, than underestimate and be wrong, but this was outrageous. These guys didn't leave any room for the possibility they might be off. These guys have no shame. At least when I make my sports predictions, I leave open the possibilty I may be wrong. Which as you will see, happens more often than not. (I also don't get paid millions of dollars to be wrong or right for that matter.)
February 1- In many ways it was the perfect end to a horrible football season. The most despicable team in football, if not if not all of sports, walking off with the championship trophy. A season in which the NFL suffered more off the field embarrassment that usually does. Another season where Bill Belichick reminds us that little things like contracts and rules don't necessarily apply to him. The season in which the Giants were bad and the Jets were awful. In the Post today, Mike Vaccaro wrote that no matter how bad things get, America will never get off its football jones. That's something to think about, after season like this what's the point?
And has it gotten any better? This year we had Dallas Cowboy Greg Hardy, who was arrested for domestic violence only to be praised by Cowboy owner Jerry Jones as "one of our leaders." But as Mike Francesa always says "as long as they keep growing the brand" it probably doesn't matter.
Sad.
February 7- With the possible exception of my sister Katie, no one hates Chipper Jones more than I. But when I saw this this morning, I said to myself "Someone HAD to have hacked his account." And now he admits he tweeted it? Wow. What a POS.
This one is almost too painful to write. Chipper Jones is someone to thinks that the massacre at Sandy Hook in 2012 was a hoax. I thought John Rocker was the biggest POS of the Braves in 1999/2000. What a creep. The Yankees and the Cardinals did the world a favor by making sure those dicks didn't win the World Series in those years.
February 17- This makes me proud to have moved to Nassau County.
Joy Rosen, an original Islander season ticket holder, actually went on TV and said the following...
“Back in 1982, my son was conceived back in that parking lot here at an Islander game,” “I went into labor during the Stanley Cup game [during] the 1982-83 season. [I] forced labor and was able to come back for the last game and watched the Islanders win their next Stanley Cup.”
I'll take "Information I didn't Need to Know" for $500 Alex. Can you imagine how that now 33 year old man feels about Mom telling the world she was doing the nasty in the Nassau Coliseum parking lot? For crissakes, there are a ton of hot sheets motels right down Hempstead Turnpike she could have gone to if she was that horny. (not that I know anything about them) Maybe I'm becoming a prude in my old age. More likely, I think some stories are better left unsaid.
March 21-Congratulations to my cousin Deirdre Name-Was Cassidy and her new husband Chris and thanks for an awesome wedding!
What a blast we had at this wedding in Fishkill, NY. We drove up in the middle of a blizzard on Friday night, did a shopping spree at Wal-Mart Saturday morning, followed by breakfast at Cracker Barrel and a long dip in the hotel pool. Oh, and besides all that, my cousin Deirdre got married. An awesome wedding. Timmy stuck it out to the end, but had the line of the night when they brought out the Venetian Hour. "More food?" he asked incredulously.
April 4- OK folks there are two things I don't believe we will ever see in our lifetime..1)A triple crown winner in horse racing and 2) a undefeated team in men's college basketball. If ever a team was going to run the table, it was this Kentucky team. Robert Montgomery Knight and his 76 Hoosiers can rest easy, they're the last ones you'll ever see.
I'm standing by the latter statement. The former...?
April 24- Someone asked me today if I was going to watch the Bruce Jenner interview. I told them that my Rangers have a chance to send Sidney "the crybaby" Crosby home from the playoffs, the Mets and the Yankees are battling in the Bronx, then I plan to watch Steve McGarrett shoot bad guys in Honolulu, and Frank Reagan and his family defend our fair city. Whatever Bruce has to say to Diane Sawyer , I'll read about it in the paper tomorrow.
People may be offended by my lack of interest in Bruce/Caitlin Jenner, but I think I'm actually doing him/her a tremendous service. If all he/she wants is to be accepted, than fine, consider yourself accepted. I consider Bruce Jenner one of the greatest athletes in American history. I actually cringed the few times I saw him on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, seeing how poorly those bimbos treated him. "He's the only one on that show that actually accomplished anything, and they treat him like a freakin joke" I complained to my wife one night. If this transition is going to bring inner peace for Jenner, than that's fine. But if Jenner wants to parade all over the media and make herself a reality show, I'll take a pass.
April 28- Friends will come, and friends will go... But the St. Mary's survivors will always have your back! No matter how many years have gone- we will always be there for each other! (Jenn McGowan)
I don't want to re-hash this too much, but I felt like I had to stick by big beak into a debate, where someone in an attempt to discredit Autism Speaks, took a shot at the daughter of a gal I've known since I was 6 years old. I always say You can say what you want about me, but don't f-ck with my kid. And while your at it, don't f-ck with any of my classmates kids either, especially one who is trying to make a difference in this world. "I only regret that I had but one opputuinty to tell her off".-Keri D'Angelo
April 30-Tim took it upon himself to forge Tara and I signatures on his homework.
Now as my sister Kris Eller points out, he didn't forge our signatures, the line said Parent's Name, and he simply wrote Tara and Billy on the line provided. His explanation was that he was saving us the trouble, but either way, it made for a funny picture. I remember back in St.Mary's, the teachers saying to us "Maybe your parents think your cute, but I don't." While I still think that'a a rotten thing for a teacher to say to a kid, I never understood what they meant by that. Till I became a parent.
May 22- Tara, her parents, Timmy and I went to a hibachi restaurant in Lynbrook to kick off Memorial Day Weekend. Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals was about 2 hours away and the Rangers were in a must win. I was a bit edgy, a lot like Howard Hessman in this classic clip from Police Academy 2...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPGIlBV8HI&sns=fb
May 30- Of all the people I've had the pleasure of working with at the Post, few were as enjoyable to be around as Rob Walsh was. Anytime someone would comment on a good Post headline, I'd think of Rob. Even though I only work there on Saturdays, Rob always made me feel like part of the team, always asked for Tara and Tim, and just always put a smile on my face. RIP my man, you left way too soon.
Too many people died this year. Maybe statistically it was like any other year, but I just felt like more people I knew, either personally or in the celebrity world, died in 2015. Going through my FB page, I saw how many people I saluted with an RIP. The first week of January alone someone I knew died each day.
This one though hit close to home. I had many a good laugh with Rob Walsh, and while there were many awesome people at the Post (as well as a couple of real lousy ones) Rob was one of the best there was. After I hadn't seen him for a few weeks, I asked someone who worked during the week, and they assured me he was still here, just not working on Saturdays. While I was watching the Rangers getting eliminated by the Tampa Bay Lightning, someone posted on FB they heard a rumor that Rob had died. I tried to get more info, but couldn't find anything on line. The next day I went to 7-11 and picked up the Post and there it was. And I thought that was going to be the worst thing that happened to me that week....
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