Weekly Mail May 5, 2019

Happy Cinco de Mayo!


Last August, I took Tim to a taping of Wonderama.  They brought Wonderama back in early 2017, and Timmy had told me he'd love to sit in the audience and perhaps play in one of the games they have. Last summer, I saw an ad on Facebook saying they were going to be taping and to send an -e-mail if you were interested in attending. I chose a date and lo and behold they e-mailed me a waiver and a ticket.

They tape the show at Baruch College down on 28th Street. Parents don't get to go into the studio, but the cameras are on all the time so you can watch in the waiting room. Tim said he had a good time, though he didn't get to play Circle of Pies or the Dog game. He got to meet the host, David Osmond (Donnie and Marie's nephew) and it was a fun day for us.

On the first episode of the season, there was a quick shot of Tim in the audience, but it wasn't the show we saw. To be honest, I thought that they may have sent the tape to the scrap heap. But this past Saturday, they aired the entire episode, with multiple appearances by our main man.

If you want to have some fun, get yourself a bottle of Fireball, click on the below link, and take a shot every time the Timster comes on the screen.


Timmy on Wonderama




HOCKEY: Isles be seeing ya

The more I thought about it, the less appealing the idea of the Islanders skating around the Barclay's Center with the Stanley Cup had become. I have watched the Yankees win 5 World Championships since the Mets won in 1986. I have seen the Giants win 4 Super Bowls since the Jets last won 50 years ago. (4 years before I was born) It's bad enough I had to watch the Devils win 3 cups since the Rangers won in 1994, to have the Islanders win....that might be more than my system can handle.

But yeah, despite that, I found myself pulling for them against Carolina. I wish I could say it's because my wife is an Islander fan, but she's also a Yankee fan and I'm sick of the Yankees. Maybe it was because they played the first round at the Coliseum, and that sounded the way the old Garden used to sound. Maybe it is because as a Met and Jet fan, I know the pain the Islander fan knows.

I realize this makes no sense, dreading the thought of the Islanders winning a Cup, while simultaneously rooting for them. I'm thinking as they got further along, and their fans went from grateful to obnoxious, I would have changed my tune.

It's all academic now anyway, as the Fishticks were swept by a Carolina team that quite frankly I thought the Islanders were better than. It was easy for me to be diplomatic too, telling my Islander fan friends that they had a great year, a year that was unexpected after their best player left them in the dust.  I of course would have pitched a shitfit if my team got swept like that.

A bunch of my fellow Ranger fans on some of the Ranger pages I belong to on FB were giving the Isles a lot of guff for getting swept. I held my tongue mainly because having not made the playoffs, I didn't feel like I was in a position to say anything.

But for a team that didn't make the playoffs, the Rangers are having a pretty good off season. They own the number 2 pick in the draft, and the other day they acquired a top defensive prospect named Adam Fox. Of course these picks and prospects have to turn into something, but it's nice to see the direction they are moving in.


HORSE RACING- Now I've seen everything..

When I worked at OTB, every once in a while, there would be an inquiry or an objection, basically the horse racing equivalent of a coaches challenge. Sometimes it would change the outcome of the race, but not too often.

I've never seen it happen in a stakes race.

And I've never seen it happen where a relative favorite ended up surrendering their victory to a complete long shot.

Such was the case on Saturday's 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at soggy Churchill Downs.

Like I did after I thought Auburn had beaten Virginia in the Final Four, I walked away from the TV thinking "That's going to be some Triple." I had no idea just how big that triple was going to be.

Unreal.


POLITICS: Throwing his (dunce) hat in the ring

I had heard the rumours that Mayor DeBlasio was considering entering the 2020 Presidential race. If ever there was fake news, this had to be it right? I mean, I'm still trying to figure out how the Dope from Park Slope won re-election as MONY, (no- I don't think it was voter fraud or any hanky panky like that) I can't imagine anyone outside the city voting for him.

And yes, I never thought we would have the likes of Captain Orange in the Oval Office either, so you want to tell me anything can happen, I'll buy that to an extent. But I'm figuring it's going to be a LONG time before anybody from our state gets elected President again, that goes for Angry Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer too.

Of course in 5 years, the legendary Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be old enough  to run for the White House. But now I'm getting off the subject. My main point is, if DeBlasio thinks anyone outside New York City would elect him dog-catcher, he's out of his mind.

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There is something about this dude that is racking up all these big wins on Jeopardy that I don't trust. Maybe it's the fact that he lists his profession as Professional Gambler. (The streets of Atlantic City are alive with professional gamblers.  Maybe its just how weird looking he is, I don't know. When Ken Jennings was racking up all those wins, I was impressed and thought nothing amiss.  I realize I have zero proof that this guy is anything but on the level, it's just a weird feeling I have.


And once again with the Mets, when the hit, they don't pitch, when they pitch they don't hit. Seasons change, the story stays the same.

If you get a chance, google up Adam Sandler's tribute to Chris Farley on this past Saturday's SNL. Very funny, and very moving.


Have a Great Week