Hi Folks:
So we have made it to our Fall Finale. Seems like Labor Day Weekend was just a couple weeks ago and I was mourning the end of summer. Now Christmas is a tad over a week away.
And we will have a Christmas Eve Special coming out next Sunday at 8 PM, though I'm still not 100% sure what it will fully entail. I guess we'll all find out together. Again, I'm open to any and all suggestions.
If you're feeling down and out this holiday season, (and I know that people do) maybe you can take solace in the fact that you don't owe anybody almost $150 million like Rudolph Giuliani does.
POLITICS: Rudy's bad day
The former mayor of NYC and one time consigliere to Captain Orange was ordered by a jury in Washington DC to pay two Georgia election workers a total of $148 million. Earlier, he had been found liable for defamation after he made false statements about them both in the wake of the 2020 election.
Now, I wasn't foolish enough to think that after all this that Rudy would apologize for what he said or walk any of it back, although I think he may have gained back a bit of the creditability he had before he hitched his wagon to the former president. The best any of us could hope for was that he would keep his big mouth shut.
Instead, he essentially doubled down on what he said about them in the first place, claimed that he didn't get to present his own evidence, and he also claimed that the court system has been weaponized against him. Yep, when in doubt, blame it all on Joe Biden
Or better yet, Hunter Biden.
I'll never take away from him how he stepped up for NYC after 9/11. How he stood and tried to answer questions there were no answers for, how he went to all those wakes and funerals. At one time, the man had a soul.
Now, he's just a sham. What he did to those two women who were just trying to do a service for their community by working the polls is a disgrace. He deserved what he got the other day. If he’s wasn’t already broke, he is now.
Hope it was worth it.
OK enough of that. It's time for more uplifting news..
FOOTBALL: Can you guess who were last weeks AFC and NFC Offensive Players of the Week?
Yes indeed it was none other than our very own Zach Wilson and Tommy DeVito. I wonder what odds Fan Duel would have given you on that?
Wilson showed what he can do when 1) he gets time, 2) his receivers don't drop passes and 3) the coaches let him throw the ball. No, I'm not saying his struggles are all the fault of others, his decision making is still not good. But given what he was given last week, he looked like a good NFL QB.
But the story around these parts is Mr. Chicken Cutlets himself as it should be. In a year where all of our teams have spit the bit in one form or another, DeVito is by far our feel good story of 2023.
The local kid who made good. The underdog who made it big. A 25 year old whose mom still cooks dinner after practice. I'm a Jet fan with quarterback issues of my own and there I was last Monday night rooting as hard for the Giants against the Packers as I was the day before for my Jets against the Texans. How can you not root for this guy? Add to that his agent, who dresses like Joe Pesci's character in My Cousin Vinny and you can make a freakin sitcom about it right there.
Of course all good things come to an end, and around here they come much sooner than later. The Jets no-showed against Miami, their offensive line getting Zach Wilson hurt, and the Giants were only slightly better, at least they got on the scoreboard.
Sunday’s game notwithstanding, Tommy Cutlets is still the best story we have.
COWS MY COME COWS MAY GO, BUT THE BULL IN THIS PLACE GOES ON FOREVER-a sign over the bar at Peggy Gordon's Pub, circa 1993...
Riding the subways for as long as I did back in the day, I got to see some pretty unusual things on the tracks. They were mostly of the vermin variety; rats, mice etc.
But imagine waiting for a train and seeing a bull running up and down the tracks? I couldn’t.
But that’s what happened at Newark-Penn Station on Thursday morning.
It’s still not clear where “Ricardo” the name given to the bull by the Port Authority cops who helped corral him in, escaped from, though Newark apparently has several slaughterhouses nearby.
But Ricardo caused hour long delays on NJ Transit. Fortunately that was the only real issue. Nobody got hurt, including Ricardo, who was tranquillized and taken to an animal sanctuary. Think about how bad this could have gone…Ricardo could have turned Newark into Pamplona, or Ricardo could have been hit by a train, free chop meat with the purchase of your NJ transit ticket.
But I digress. It was a happy ending for everyone. And isn’t that what the season is all about?
Thank you everyone for reading and liking and commenting on this. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. And I wish everyone a safe, and enjoyable Holiday season.
Christmas Eve Special next Sunday at 8 EST.
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Week
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