Weekly Mail July 30, 2017

Hello All:


Last Tuesday night, I took Timmy to see our first Long Island Ducks baseball game. I've been a Long Island resident now for 8 years. I will always consider myself a city kid, and Queens kid, but I'm enjoying the perks of living on the Island. This was one thing I had always been curious about.

So we drove out to Bethpage Ballpark in Central Islip. Now I'm used to taking the LIRR/7 Train to Citi Field, or the 4 train to Yankee Stadium and haven't driven to a ballgame in years. I remembered why the other night. Traffic out the wazoo. Parking was free, but we had a hike from our spot to the ballpark, and then we had a long wait to get inside.

Once inside though, it's a beautiful place to see a game, and there is not a bad seat in the house.  I would tell you the quality of baseball isn't that great, but that would be rich coming from a Met fan like myself.  It was entertaining enough, and I would definitely do it again.

But one more beef I have with the place was the prices of the food. They were pretty much Citi Field/Yankee Stadium prices! The game tickets themselves were more than reasonably priced, but next time, we eat before the game.

I couldn't even tell you who won.



POLITICS: Mccainiac!!!

I can't remember the last time I saw a politician have such a roller coaster week as the one Senator John McCain just had. He was diagnosed with brain cancer (bad) came back to a raucous ovation on the Senate Floor (good) gave a fiery speech about bipartisanship (good) voted along party lines to reopen the process to repeal Obamacare (bad) then topped it off by being one of only 3 GOP senators to vote against the so called skinny bill that would only repeal certain parts of Obamacare. But those 3 defectors were enough to kill the Republicans latest attempt to repeal and replace.

McCain now of course is getting clobbered in conservative arenas, but shoot, this is what I liked about him in the first place. I'm not going to rehash the Obamacare debate, you all know that I think it has its good points and bad, but the stuff that can be fixed can probably be fixed without burning the whole thing to the ground.

I'd like to think that John McCain, in what may be the last we see of him, thought the exact same thing.


BREAKING NEWS (Kind of)

Because I was lazy in getting out this edition on time, I can report that President Trump's new mouthpiece is now his old mouthpiece. Anthony (the Mooch) Scaramucci, whose appointment as Trump's head of communications forced the untimely end of the Sean Spicer era, himself stepped down after 10 tumultuous days on the job. Amongst his highlights or lowlights as it were was a obscenity laced tirade he gave in an interview with the New Yorker. When even a foul-mouthed lout like Donald Trump thinks you went over the line, that's something to ponder.

that's all i got folks.

have a great week