JULY
July 11, 2020
Live Aid was 35 years ago this weekend.
When I posted this, I enjoyed reading my friends memories of Live Aid. Especially one friend who talked about listening to it at the park down the block from where we grew up. I never would have done that 35 years ago, but all these years later, that sounds like the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon/evening.
July 18, 2020
OK, the cardboard cutout "fans" behind the plate is just freakin' weird amirite?
It took a few weeks to get used to, but I have to admit, it freaked me out in the beginning. I can only imag9ne how the players felt having these cardboard pictures staring at them. I'd have nightmares.
July 23, 2020
Mike Francesa's Third annual retirement will be this Friday
When the FAN was looking to bring back Craig Carton in November, and were looking for someone to pair him up with, I thought maybe Mike "Sugar Ray Leonard" Francesa would be a solid choice. They ended up putting him with Evan Roberts, and the big guy stayed retired. (for now)
July 25, 2020
We folded like a $12.00 suit on this one huh?
Jamal Adams had been demanding a trade, tweeting Cowboy fans that he was trying to get traded to Dallas and just generally acting like a spoiled a-hole in the middle of a pandemic. I'd have hung the whiny baby out to dry, but they ended trading him for draft picks. Then we wondered why we lost our first 13 games of the season
AUGUST
August 4, 2020
What a waste. Why did they bother going to Toronto if they were going to play like that?
Hockey in August. Playoff hockey at that. And yes, I should have been grateful for that. But then the Rangers got swept out by the Carolina Hurricanes the night before my birthday and I lost my mind. (Some things never change) I waited 4 1/2 months to see my team play 3 games. Aggravating
August 25, 2020
Shut out by the Marlins.
Twice In the Mets defense, the Marlins did make the playoffs.
August 28, 2020
They get swept by the Marlins and then they sweep the Yankees. Go Figure.
And then on Sunday the 30th, they blew a 7-2 lead in the 9th and lost 8-7. To the Yankees. It was that kind of year.
SEPTEMBER
September 11, 2020
First Day of 7th Grade. Good luck in middle school buddy.
Timmy hadn't been in a classroom since March 13. Starting a new school is hard enough without having to navigate through hybrid learning. I really pray that all of our kids come out of this not totally ruined.
September 29, 2020- The Presidential Debate
We had to know this was going to be a shit show going in. That’s how Trump operates. In 2016, Trump and Marco Rubio we’re comparing dick sizes. Should Biden have told Trump to shut up? Call him a clown? Maybe not, but if it talks like a clown, and keeps interrupting, why not?
Should they even have the next two debates? As Joe Cabot said towards the end of Reservoir Dogs, “What the hell for? It’s just gonna be more bullshit”
I’ve said this before.... there was a time in my life where I would have found this entertaining. I remember Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quayle he was no JFK. Back then, that was considered badass. That’s tame compared to this.
A CBS News poll said that the overwhelming feeling viewers had was annoyance. The sad thing is we knew that going in. The sad thing is, no one should be
I usually try to edit the bad words if I'm posting something on-line, but this was too much. I shook my head as I read people saying how shocked they were by all of it, I wondered aloud where they were 4 years ago. It's not that I couldn't believe a candidate told the President of the United States to shut up. It's not that I couldn't believe a candidate called the President of the United Sates a clown. It's that both of those things happened and I didn't bat an eyelash. That was the heartbreak of it all.
OCTOBER
October 13, 2020
There may be more dysfunctional poorly run organizations in professional sports, but damned if I can think of any right now
Wrote this after the Jets waived running back L'veon Bell, a former all pro running back who was signed by a GM who was fired before Bell ever got to play a game for him, because the coach who didn't want him in the first place didn't utilize him correctly. Does that make any sense? Because my head started to hurt while I was typing it.
October 17, 2020
Dear Tampa Rays,
Thank you
Sincerely,
America
Wrote this after the Rays sent the lying cheating losing record Astros home from the ALCS. While the Astros going to the World Series would have been a perfect metaphor for 2020, it was a rare relief this year when they did not.
October 18, 2020
Not even a field goal? Beyond pathetic
The Jets were shut out by the Dolphins. We were on our way to 0-16 baby!
October 27, 2020
Congrats to the Dodgers, but Tampa handed it to them.
Crappy managing by Tampa (pulling starter Blake Snell after 73 pitches) and Willie Adames making like Carlos Beltran in 2006. And not that Dodger skipper Dave Roberts was reminding anyone of Miller Huggins, but despite that LA finally got over the top.
NOVEMBER
November 1, 2020
At the very least, it looks like we have a FG kicker.
Who as soon as I typed this missed a FG
November 3, 2020
The best way to describe how I’m feeling right now, it’s somewhere between Christmas Eve and the night before a liver transplant” - Jimmy Kimmel
No matter who you voted for, I would say most people felt the same way.
November 9, 2020
The Jets are going to win this game, aren’t they?
Spoiler alert-They didn't. NE 30-Jets 27
0-9
November 18, 2020
Obi Toppin!!! Woo hoo!
I can't remember the last time the Knicks did anything that got me excited. This was a rare treat from them. Let's see if it pans out.
DECEMBER
Our parents had the Heidi Game.
It looked like the Jets were going to win this game against the Raiders. I was so confident, that I went and had dinner. When I came out of the kitchen, the Raiders were celebrating a win. 52 years earlier, a Jets-Raiders game was cut off to show Heidi. The Jets were winning that game too. (and lost)
You know, I really didn’t want to go 0-16, but to go 1-15 and not get the number one pick would suck just as much.
This was being a Jet fan in 2020. Two weeks earlier, I was pissed that they lost. This day, I was kind of pissed that they won.
Heave-Ho! 2 in a row!
Break up the Jets!!!
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So the reason I was delayed in posting this is that I had a really hard time coming up with something to put in this space.
Looking back over my posts from July-December, I saw too many RIP posts, and a bunch of my political commentary. When I do my year in review, the goal is that if I read in again in a few years, I’ll have a good feel for what was on our mind that year.
This year though, no matter how one spins it, it’s going to be remembered as a year of anxiety, of angst, of uncertainty and of course sadness. Doesn’t matter what gender, race or political party you belong to. When 350,000 of your fellow citizens die that may have otherwise lived, that has to affect you.
I’m trying hard to come up with a message of hope, a message of positivity that going forward things will get better. But as these years go on, that gets harder and harder, and that was before the pandemic.
I’m glad we are going to have a new President in a couple of weeks, but we’ll still be a nation divided. I’m glad we have a vaccine for COVID-19, but that’s not bringing back those we lost.
And if heaven forbid this happens again, I mean, we turned the simple act of wearing a mask into a national debate. Is there any chance things are really going to get better?
My sister-in-law told me something on New Years Eve that might give us something to think about.... There was a deadly pandemic in 1918 that killed thousands of people. When it was over, the Roaring 20’s happened.
So maybe.......
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