JULY
July 7-Let's Go Mets! With Dad Bill Gallagher
Great time. Great game
July 12- And there ends another insomnia curing All Star Game.
They tried to make the baseball game more interesting by making it count towards home field adavnatge for the World Series. It's still the most dull thing to watch. At least I thought it was going to be the most dull thing to watch....
July 21- Keri-Ann Hart: This is why I don't watch these things. It's excruciating.
Keri was referring to Donald Trump's GOP acceptance speech, which in contrast to his debate performances, was ridiculously dull. I fell asleep about halfway through it. It made the All Star game seem exciting.
July 25-Damn, Cory Booker can give a speech huh?
Get a good look at him folks. If the Democrats are smart, they'd run him in 2020. Young, talented and smart. I think he wipes the floor with the GOP candidate in 4 years.
July 25- 27 dollahs! LOL!
Bernie Sanders asked the crowd at the DNC what the average contribution to his campaign was. They shouted back the answer at him and he repeated it.
July 26- Woodside in da house at the DNC
Congressman Joe Crowley gave a speech at the DNC. My very first CYO basketball coach, Joe is one of my favorite people, never mind politician. Even though he was hyping up Hillary, I didn't even hold that against him. Joe Crowley is good people.
July 28- I blame the lineup, without question. All Familia did was save 50 games in a row. The lineup (especially Curtis Granderson) are the ones who left the bases loaded and couldn't score
The question was Who do you blame for the Mets loss to the Rockies in a Thursday afternoon game. It was La Familia's first blown save all year, and the Mets left a truckload of runners on base.
AUGUST
August 10-Sad news. One of my favorites. RIP.
John Saunders was the host of my favorite Sunday Morning talk show, ESPN's Sports Reporters. The deaths of people I really dug continued to pile up as 2016 rolled along. And it would only get worse.
August 10-Steve El- Becky's happy to be with her buddy Timmy for his first Met game.
Tara, Timmy and I had the honor and privilege of attending the Mets-D-Backs game with Uncle Steve, Grandpa and Aunt Kate. We had to leave after 5 innings or so, and they ended up losing in 12, so I didn't feel so bad. The important thing was I got to take my son to his first ball game. And my Dad was there to boot! Hopefully next year, a Yankee game with Pop and Aunts Kerry and Megan. (and Uncle Brian)
Tara, Timmy and I had the honor and privilege of attending the Mets-D-Backs game with Uncle Steve, Grandpa and Aunt Kate. We had to leave after 5 innings or so, and they ended up losing in 12, so I didn't feel so bad. The important thing was I got to take my son to his first ball game. And my Dad was there to boot! Hopefully next year, a Yankee game with Pop and Aunts Kerry and Megan. (and Uncle Brian)
August 11- Put a fork in 'em folks. They're done.
And I vowed, if they made the playoffs, I'd eat crow. But I figured if they couldn't beat Arizona, how were they going to beat anybody good? Their pitching staff was tattered and their lineup was anemic. I know I wasn't the only one who thought they were toast.
August 12-Keri Ann Hart-I hope you are out having dinner with you wife. Keep the radio and tv off.
Ironically enough, I was out to dinner, but not with the Missus. I was out with Karl, Ray and Auggie, to JPaul's. The Met game was on every TV and they were getting destroyed by the Padres, another $h-tty team. Mericifully, they put all the TV's on the Yankee game, which also happened to be A-Rod's final game in Pinstripes.
August 17-Does anybody honestly think Ellen DeGeneres is a racist? I mean c'mon
Ellen DeGeneres posted a meme with her being photoshopped on the back of Usain Bolt as he was winning the 100 meter dash at the Rio Olympics. She added that this was how she was going to be running her errands from now on.
I could see how some people might construe this as racist, but lets put this in perspective. I don't know deGeneres personally of course, but I don't know of too many people who don't think she's a wonderful person. And I'd pretty much bet everything I own that she's not a racist. She can get away with jokes like that because she's an equal opportunity jokester, and she tends to talk people up rather than put them down. I have no doubt she was complementing him on his amazing achievement rather than making fun of the color of his skin.
SEPTEMBER
September 1-He goes back today. I stand by my statement from last year. I'm sure Mrs. D stands by hers. With Keri-Ann Hart
I graduated from grammar school 29 years ago and from high school 25 years ago. I still get depressed when the summer ends, and it's now worse since Timmy started school. In late August, as summer camp was ending, I was talking to a friend of mine whose daughter went to school with Timmy, and she was saying how sad she was to see her girl go back to school. Ironically, Timmy and my friend's daughter seem to handle back to school better than we do.
September 9-Our moms go to Savannah and this happens?
My mother had the right idea to beat the end of Summer blues, she took a trip with her friends from Rockaway to one of my favorite places in the USA. Savannah, GA. While she was there galavanting with her gal pals, The Lady Chablis, the transgender performer who put Savannah on the map with the book/movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, passed away at age 59. I guess the Lady couldn't handle the Rockaway crowd who can party with the best of them.
September 17-I take back all the bad stuff I said about Curtis Granderson
It was starting to look like I was going to be having a big plate of crow in October...mainly because the Grandyman was starting to hit again. Also because Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo were pitching like the guys they were filling in for had pitched in 2015.
September 17-It was intentional but not terrorism... What the fudge does THAT mean?
This was a quote from your fearless I mean clueless mayor Bill deBlasio (or as Razor Ray McGarvey called him The Dope from Park Slope) after an explosion rocked a Chelsea sidewalk, injuring 29 people. Maybe he meant to say it wasn't Islamic terrorism or international terrorism or most likely, he's just an idiot who doesn't know what the bleep he's talking about. I would go with choice C.
September 25-Oh don't take a knee KC, give Fitzpatrick the ball back so he can throw another pick!
I got stuck watching the Jets at my in-laws house this day.. Has it ever happened to you that you are watching a football game and you know the QB is going to throw an interception before he even releases the ball? That happened to me sevweral times in this game. I'm not clairvoyant, Ryan Fitzpatrick is just THAT bad.
OCTOBER
October 5 The answer is no
The question was, If your team loses the Wild Card game, does it still count as "making the playoffs? I say no dammit it doesn't. According to MLB, the Mets were a playoff team, according to me, they weren't. Still, I didn't even think they'd get THAT far, so hats off to them.
October 9 I don't know anything about Russia.
Right?
October 22-WTG Cubbies!
Tara and I were in Connecticut when the Cubs beat the Dodgers to advance to their first World Series since the end of WWII. We were watching with a couple from Kansas City, who when they found out I was a Met fan, showed me pictures he took at the 2015 World Series Championship Parade. If they weren't such nice people, they'd be a$$holes.
November 2, 2016-....and now that the Cubs have battled back to force game 7, it just makes me ask again why we couldn't do the same thing?
November 2, 2015 was a rough day. Earlier that morning, the Mets had blown another lead and lost the World Series. I got about an hour's worth of sleep and then spent the morning at work seething. Then I started reading some of the responses to my venting after the loss and decided I was going to respond once and for all to the criticsm. It was a long day.
Fast forward to exactly one year later and the Cubbies had battled back from 3-1 down to force game 7 in Cleveland. I was happy, I wanted to see them win, but it got me to thinking about why or boys couldn't do the same thing last year.
November 3-2016 World Champion Chicago Cubs, words I never thought I'd type
And Cubs manger Joe Maddon and Mather Nature seemed determined to make sure I never would. Maddon went through his bullpen like sand off a beach, and a rain delay caused the game to stop for about a half hour. Stuill, in the wee hours of the morning, the North Side of Chicago got to celebrate like mad for the first time in over a century. Speaking of words I thought I'd never type......
November 9-2 AM. Speechless. Turning in.
Stunned.
DECEMBER
December 10- Should be a fun trip home tonight...
Santa Con. Dress up like Santa, tie one on. Fight, puke and make a general a-hole of yourself. Weekly Mail co-editor Karl (The Ace) Ludwig suggests I'm just mad because if they had Santa Con during my Halcyon Days of drinking and debauchery, I'd have been the first one in the Santa suit trying to pick up drunken chicks on 2nd Avenue. Maybe. Fact of the matter is I'm a married father now, and I need my seat on the LIRR on Saturday Night/Sunday Morning. Don't need to share it with someone like me from 15-20 years ago.
December 11-Who knew that Linus of all people invented the mic drop?
The mic-drop. When someone takes the microphone, says something profound to end an argument, and then drops the microphone to the floor to declare themselves the winner.
Linuis Van Pelt was the original mic dropper.
Way back in 1965, during the Peanuts Christmas special, when Charlie Brown asked if anybody knew the true meaning of Christmas, Linus stepped up to the mike and began quoting Luke 2:8-14
Specifically verse 10. Fear not.. when he says fear not, he drops his blanket, something he never does, He doesn't need his blanket when he talks about the birth of Christ. This was actually brought to light by radio airhead John Tesh.
That ABC is still allowed to show this clip in the days of avoiding any mention of the little baby Jesus at all costs is remarkable. But that Charles Schultz was able to sneak that in there was even more so.
And a couple of final RIP's
George Michael-December 25. He was one of the main voices in the greatest Christmas song of all time Do They Know it's Christmas Time. He also had an almost as famous (and 100 times more annoying) Christmas diddy Last Christmas You Gave me your heart. That he died on Christmas day is one of those sad ironies that happen in life. Next year both of those songs are going to take on a more solemn meaning.
Carrie Fisher- December 27. Steve Martin caught flak for tweeting out this upon hearing of Carrie Fisher's death. "When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well." He was criticized for objectifying Fisher.
Well here's my take.
Carrie Fisher, when she first played Princess Leia in Star Wars, WAS stunningly beautiful. Looking back at pictures of her from that period, I almost forgot how pretty she was. Why pointing that out is a crime I have no idea.
And if you were pissed off about what Martin tweeted, you're probably going to be apoplectic about what I'm going to write about now.
That Fisher didn't age well. That by drinking and smoking and taking pills, she aged faster than she should have. Yes, she was brave to come out and admit she had some issues, and if by her doing that others were able to save themselves, then more power to her. And yes, she was sharp and funny and talented. But take it from someone who has heart issues, she didn't take care of herself. Not saying she had it easy because she didn't. But she also had a loving family and tons of friends. Count me amongst her admirers, but also as someone who thinks she could have accomplished a lot more.
Debbie Reynolds-December 28. The most heartbreaking aspect of Fisher's death was that it ultimately led to the death of her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds. I believe 110% that it's possible to die of a broken heart. I've seen it happen in my own life. We may not all be parents, but we are all somebody's kid. And no child should go before their parent does. Timmy has goten to watch Singing in the Rain in his music class, and he loves it. Sad to see that the last of it's living stars left us in a year where so many other stars did as well.
Thanks to my brother in law Steve Eller for providing this link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1mxPBHqc4
Here's to a Happy and Healthy 2017
Weekly Mail Returns January 15.
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