Hi Everyone:
If you read my Mets special earlier today, thank you. My original plan was to just put it all in one blog post, but I decided to spare the non-baseball crowd my rantings on the subject. It ended up being even longer than I thought, so we broke it up.
Hope you all enjoyed it.
I think I've discussed this before, but I am seriously considering switching to a different blog service. A few years ago, the service I use, Google Blogger, changed the way they counted how many times a blog post was clicked on. I'm not quite sure what the issue is, but where I was getting 50-60 hits a week, all of the sudden it was between 10-20.
And now, my first three blogs of the new season have only produced a total of 24 pageviews. (10 for the 9/11 Special, 8 for the Season Premiere and 6 last week.)
The issue is that I'll get 6 page views but 8 people comment on FB, or someone will stop me in the street, so I'm sure more people are reading it than Google Blogger is letting on. I know it shouldn't matter, I know its probably my ego and my insecurity eating at me, but I really would like to know a) who is reading it and b) how many people are reading it.
So I will be reaching out to some of my fellow bloggers to see what service they use and if they are happy with it. Depending on the feedback, we'll see how we handle this. I realize it's not the end of the world, but as I always say, the more readers I get, the more I can charge my advertisers, and I pass those savings along to you.
Onto the week that was...
CRIME: Foul Tempered Fowl
This sounds like the plot of a Hitchcock movie, or a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but according to News 4 NY, it's legit.
Leon Suseran a Jamaica, Queens resident was on his way to work one morning, when he was attacked by a, I say, attacked by a rooster.
Suseran told News 4 New York's Checkey Beckford "Just usually walking to go to my bus to head to work, and I felt a peck on my left hand. This thing kept coming so vicious, almost evil... blood was gushing and I was trying to apply pressure to it and it kept charging at me."
Good Lord! Queens has gone to the birds since I left (sorry-maybe that's why I'm not getting as many blog hits)
Apparently Suseran isn't the only one who has had run-in's with the angry bird. Parents have been warning their kids not to ride their scooters on 169th Street.
The Post got an interview with the rooster's owner, Miguel Contreros, who said that his rooster and the other chickens he keeps as pets, don't attack anyone. In fact the rooster in question usually cuddles with his daughter.
Well I mean if that don't sound like a crock of sh-t, I don't know what does.
I'm the first to admit I'm not a pet person. You want to get a dog or a cat or a goldfish by all means. But some people want to keep the weirdest pets. WTF do you need a rooster for, can't you spring for an alarm clock like the rest of us?
I just hope these folks in Jamaica can get some peace. Nobody should have to worry about getting attacked by a rooster in New York City, lord knows with all the other crime going up, this is the last thing anyone needs.
Where's Elmer J. Fudd when we need him?
FINE DINING: Detroit's New Italian Restaurant
The hottest new restaurant in Detroit is called Mom's Spaghetti, and it's owned and operated by one Marshall B. Mathers III otherwise known as Eminem.
The future hall of fame rapper named his new bistro after a lyric in his song Lose Yourself. Fans lined up around the corner the other day as it opened it's doors for the first time.
There is limited seating, but it's more of a take-out place than a sit down joint. Indeed, Slim Shady hisself was there on opening day, serving food out the take out window.
Amongst the items on the menu are Mom's Spaghetti for $9, Mom's Spaghetti with Meatballs for $12 and a 'Sgetti Sandwich, spaghetti on bread, for $11.
The sandwich sounds like something one would eat after a night of boozing and waking up at the crack of noon. Again this is more Sbarro's than let's say Il Vagabondo.
The reviews have mostly been positive, though I'm not sure anyone goes to Detroit for the Italian food. Also, would you want to be the one to send back a dish made at an Eminem establishment? I'm old enough to remember what he did to poor Moby at the MTV Awards in 2002. He'd make Gordon Ramsay look like Mr. Rogers.
I'm not the biggest Eminem fan, but I would try to stay on his good side. I'd tell him it was the best spaghetti I ever had, even if it tasted like that Skyline Chili slop they have in Cincinnati.
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I know I went off on the Mets in my earlier blog post today, but I think it's only fair that we review the upcoming baseball playoffs.
First of all, kudos to the Yankees for making it to the play-in game. They clinched in spectacular fashion, a walk off infield hit by Aaron Judge to win 1-0 against Tampa. If they beat the Red Sox on Tuesday night at Fenway Park, they’ll make the playoffs* and face the Rays in the ALDS.
I wasn’t necessarily rooting against the Yanks on Sunday, but part of me wanted to see this end up in a 4 way tie along with Toronto and Seattle. What a delicious mess that would have been. Alas it was not to be.Had either the Blue Jays or Mariners been in the NL East, they would have won the division. That’s neither here nor there.
But how would you like to be the Dodgers? 106 regular season wins and they could be sent packing if they lose their play-in against the Cardinals. And with the Cards being one of the hottest teams in baseball the past month, that’s a distinct possibility.
I’ll watch the Yanks on Tuesday, not sure about the rest of it. Still licking my wounds. To my Bombers fan readers, good luck.
And hey, both the Jets and Giants won on Sunday. Will wonders ever cease?
You're getting two for the price of none this week because I think we are going to take off next weekend for Columbus Day. And for those of you who think I have gone full blown left wing liberal, please be assured that I will now, have always and always will refer to the 2nd Monday in October as Columbus Day.
As always, thanks for reading
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Week
*just a reminder that although MLB classifies both the Yankees and Red Sox as having made the post-season, WM does not acknowledge the loser of the Wild Card game as having qualified for that year’s postseason. The 2016 Mets for example were not a playoff team as far as I’m concerned.
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