This is the worst Mets team I have ever seen. And I’ve seen some really bad ones.
July 3- I caught a lot of flak for this one. At the time, they were coming off the worst month in their history. I stand by the fact that this was as bad as I had ever seen them play.
Great News!!
July 10- Twelve young boys and their soccer coach were rescued after being trapped in a cave for 18 days. I feel like this was the last of the good news I'd hear for a while.
Ok. It's 25-1 and Jose Reyes is pitching.
We've out-metsed ourselves.
July 31-(Keri Ann Hart)- Final score Nats 25-Mets 4.
August
August 17- E-mail to Family
FRANKFURT- Phase one is complete.
We landed in Germany and it felt like we walked about 3 miles to get to our gate. But we made it and now we are awaiting our flight to Palermo. Next flight takes off 7:05 AM German time 1:05 in NYC.
Will write more in Italy
August 18-E-mail to family
The plane ride from Frankfurt to Palermo was more cramped than the first flight, but we are here. Now it’s a two hour drive to Cefalu.
It’s a bright hot day here. Maybe in Cefalu there is no humidity, but there is plenty of it here. I’m ready to take a dip in the pool.
Will write more later on. Love to all
August 20-E-mail to Weekly Mail co-editors
CEFALU, SICILY - From a country and town I never thought I’d be in a million years.....
About a block away from Donovan’s, there is a block that is so narrow, that they only let you park on one side of it. You can barely get your car down that block. It’s like a bowling alley.
Well in this beachfront town in Sicily, every freakin block is like that. Not only that, but the hills in this town make San Francisco look like the Great Plains. I didn’t think it was humanly possible to build anything on a hill like this.
You want to know why the Andretti’s and Emerson Fittapaldi are such great race car drivers? Cuz if you can drive on these streets you can drive anywhere!
And they are all two way streets! There are no one way streets here. They ALL should be one way, but somehow these guys get through. I’d scrape the hell out of my car. Crazy!
Brian and I took Timmy and Connor to the beach on Sunday, and while there were some nice looking bikinis there, there were also plenty of dudes walking around in Speedos, and to be honest, to this day I still haven’t heard any woman say “that guy looks good in a Speedo” Why anybody would walk around in one of those things is beyond my comprehension.
We are here for a wedding, and Sunday night was the rehearsal dinner. I’ve been to weddings that weren’t as fancy as this dinner was. When we got there, the groom, Antonio, introduced me to his Dad who gave me the double peck on the cheek. This horrified Antonio, who yelled “No father! In America...” and proceeded I assume, to say that dudes don’t do that in the States. But hey I’m in his country and I didn’t mind. Besides as I explained to him, since he was paying for dinner, he could do whatever he wanted with me.
The dinner was nice, apps, pasta and dessert, but it went on forever. The wedding is probably going to be as long as The Jerry Lewis Telethon. But I plan to do some serious boozing.
It’s frickin hot here, BTW. Humid too. Sunday night there was a thunderstorm that even freaked me out. Because I’m up on a mountain the lightning seemed even brighter. I’m sure we get storms like this in NY, but this lightning was something else.
This is the first trip I’ve taken where I haven’t perused the local newspaper for the obvious reason that I don’t read Italian. But I did find some English speaking news channels on the tube. And the big story over here as it pertains to our President is his war of words with the Prime Minister of Turkey. I guess cuz Turkey is relatively close to Italy. Back home that doesn’t even crack the top 10 of people he’s pissed off. CNN and the NFL are one and two on that list. But you can’t get away from Captain Orange. He’s like dog$h-t, he’s everywhere!
OK that’s all I got for now. Take Care.
From Italy,
Wild Bill
August 23- E-mail to WM editors
PALERMO- the two days that followed Monday’s festivities were a blast. Tuesday, Tim and I went to Carlo’s barber shop for genuine Italian haircuts. I got a wash cut and shave and Tim got a wash and cut. We like our guy in Oceanside, but this guy was awesome! Tara and Joan asked him if he did ladies hair (he doesn’t) and we asked him to come to NY. (He probably won’t)
We had lunch next store and it was off the charts as you might imagine. Timmy got a cheeseburger, which I found curious, but even that was good. Tara and I had a caprice Pizza, which was awesome.
Most of the shops and stores here close between 1:30 and 4, which I find funny. We’re lucky if we get an hour for lunch.
Wednesday we headed back to the beach. The beach isn’t that big, and they pack em in like sardines. It’s 100 times worse than B116 Street. And my lasting image of the beaches of Cefalù isn’t going to be a Victoria Secret model in a bikini. No, it’s going to be a 65 year old dude in a banana hammocks, smoking a butt.
Yes, everyone smokes here in Italy, it’s a giant f-cking ashtray. I haven’t put away this much second hand smoke since Shelley’s closed down. It’s gross.
But I have to say, the water? Magnificent!
We rented a paddle boat and went out about 300 yards. It was Timmy, Brian, my nephew Connor and myself. We were in a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The water was clear and the temperature was perfect. No waves since it wasn’t the ocean, but still really nice.
I have more to report just not enough time. Plane is starting to board. This airport sucks, just an FYI. Very unorganized. I usually think every airport is better than JFK or LaGuardia, but not this one. To borrow from Captain Orange, it’s a $hithole.
From Italy,
Wild B.
Wild B.
September
I don’t know if he’s going to win the Cy Young award, but you’ll have a hard time convincing me he’s not the best pitcher in the game right now. WTG Jacob deGrom!
September 26- His last start- 8 scoreless innings against the NL East Champion Braves.
Farewell David Wright
September 29- He went through months of strenuous painful rehab to come back for one game to say goodbye to the fans at Citi Field. One game. That should go down as one of the great moments in NY sports history.
October
I’m predicting the Senate will deadlock 50-50 tomorrow and VP Pence will put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
On a related note, my predictions are usually incorrect, so there’s that..
On a related note, my predictions are usually incorrect, so there’s that..
October 5- So was this prediction. It ended up 50-48, with one vote against withdrawn and one vote for not counted (Senator was absent) Ending one of the most bitter nomination processes in Supreme Court history.
David Price is a joke
October 6- And of course no sooner had I finished typing the above statement that Price turned into captain clutch, helping pitch the BoSox to yet another World Series title. I miss the days where they couldn't win the big one.
This just proves my theory that the multi state lotteries are a scam.
October 24- One winning ticket sold. That's like almost statistically impossible. Unless of course the game is rigged....
November
Idiot
November 2- This refers to Alec Baldwin, the incredibly well off adored by the left award winning actor who got himself arrested fighting over a parking space in Manhattan. The man never ceases to amaze me.
Just voted-Hope my votes do better than my football picks.
November 6-They didn't. The House will be controlled by the Democrats and the Senate will stay with the Republicans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replaces the great Joe Crowley in the House.
WTG Jacob deGrom!
November 14- One moron in San Diego voted for Max Scherzer, everyone else did the right thing and gave their first place vote to the DeGromminator for the 2018 NL Cy Young Award, despite his only winning 10 games.
December
WTF is going on with Jason Myers today? He can kick a 65 yard FG but not an extra point?
December 15- It's a sad state of affairs when your team's MVP is the placekicker. Against the Texans he botched two extra points. Not that it really mattered...
Come on ND, at least make the game interesting!
December 29- The Fighting Irish by default are my favorite college football team, and the only one of my teams to contend for a title, but even that turned out to be a mirage as they got their asses handed to them by Clemson. Now I get to listen to all the haters talk about how overrated they are and I can't even defend them. Oh well.
July 20, 2018
And this was the day that everything I had written or posted before or since became irrelevant.
Last year I ended our year in review paying tribute to my father in law. This year, of course, I'm ending this by remembering my niece. Last year I wrote that you feel like the world should stop when someone you love passes, but we know that it doesn't. But this? Everything that has happened in the world since then, be it in sports, politics or entertainment, everything I usually enjoy writing about,
as far as I'm concerned is just noise.
It's almost 6 months later, and the words still escape me.
Legendary ABC Sportscaster Jim McKay was on the air for 15 straight hours the day terrorists took members of the Israeli team hostage during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. When a rescue attempt failed and the hostages were all killed, McKay said that as a kid he remembered his father saying that "our greatest hopes and worst fears are seldom realized. Our worst fears were realized tonight." That's as close as I can come to describing this loss.
Every year on New Year's Day we get together at my parent's house for dinner, and my brother in law hosts a Jeopardy! game with trivia from the previous year. Last year, I looked around the house and wished that everyone who was there would be here one year later, I never thought that.....
I can't even finish the sentence.
We always talk about New Year's Resolutions, what our hopes and dreams and goals are for the coming year. I just have one. One goal, one hope, one dream.
And that is that I don't have to end my 2019 year in review by remembering someone in our family that we lost.
Thank you all for you support, prayers and love this year. From my family to yours.
Weekly Mail returns next week
December
WTF is going on with Jason Myers today? He can kick a 65 yard FG but not an extra point?
December 15- It's a sad state of affairs when your team's MVP is the placekicker. Against the Texans he botched two extra points. Not that it really mattered...
Come on ND, at least make the game interesting!
December 29- The Fighting Irish by default are my favorite college football team, and the only one of my teams to contend for a title, but even that turned out to be a mirage as they got their asses handed to them by Clemson. Now I get to listen to all the haters talk about how overrated they are and I can't even defend them. Oh well.
July 20, 2018
And this was the day that everything I had written or posted before or since became irrelevant.
Last year I ended our year in review paying tribute to my father in law. This year, of course, I'm ending this by remembering my niece. Last year I wrote that you feel like the world should stop when someone you love passes, but we know that it doesn't. But this? Everything that has happened in the world since then, be it in sports, politics or entertainment, everything I usually enjoy writing about,
as far as I'm concerned is just noise.
It's almost 6 months later, and the words still escape me.
Legendary ABC Sportscaster Jim McKay was on the air for 15 straight hours the day terrorists took members of the Israeli team hostage during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. When a rescue attempt failed and the hostages were all killed, McKay said that as a kid he remembered his father saying that "our greatest hopes and worst fears are seldom realized. Our worst fears were realized tonight." That's as close as I can come to describing this loss.
Every year on New Year's Day we get together at my parent's house for dinner, and my brother in law hosts a Jeopardy! game with trivia from the previous year. Last year, I looked around the house and wished that everyone who was there would be here one year later, I never thought that.....
I can't even finish the sentence.
We always talk about New Year's Resolutions, what our hopes and dreams and goals are for the coming year. I just have one. One goal, one hope, one dream.
And that is that I don't have to end my 2019 year in review by remembering someone in our family that we lost.
Thank you all for you support, prayers and love this year. From my family to yours.
Weekly Mail returns next week
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