This commentary's title reflects more than a great song. It reflects the feeling last week following my baseball team in the NLDS. It also became the name of great song and video lists I got moved to create after the Mets clinched their divisional series at home and joined some labor colleagues outside at a fire pit. Let me start by sharing I wa …
It was not an official Gotham gathering -- as the case when many of us gathered at Citi Field last month -- when I found my way to Yankee Stadium last week; that said my "visit" to second game at the Yankees' home park was made possible via Gotham. My brother Robby, who was for a memorial service for his mom last month, attended our Citi Field gat …
Normally, I'd cover this stadium gathering the Sunday after so many of gathered in many rows at The Porch presented by Hijole at Citi Field. A memorial service covered last week pushed back this report on watching the Mets defeat the Yankees on June 26 a week. Apologies to those who expected the account then. My wife Shelly and I and our friend …
Shelly likes to ride -- a bike that is. My lovely wife started with one of this bikes you dissemble and assemble which make for easy transport. I would take her to different parks while I did my work remotely. Through our friend Brian, she recently upgrade to a regular bike. It required putting the back seats down until I ordered a removable bi …
The Football playoffs started yesterday. I barely paid attention with my team out of it. I did notice that my brother’s team did not prevail. I am in a pool with my friend Eric that started with the season and was made hard when our fave team lost its starting QB a few plays in on day one. It often put us in the hate position of picking our team’s …
This afternoon I get to run another outing to a baseball stadium. It will be the second time. First was June 14 at Citi Field, Mets v. Yankees. This one involves their high Class A minor league teams, Brooklyn Cyclones (Mets) v. Hudson Renegades (Yankees). As Friday's blogger noted on Friday (of course), we arranged to throw out the first pitch …
Yesterday's plans adjusted a bit. The rain played no role. Technology did. Any maybe the change allowed me some time to teach my grandnephew to play a simple strategic game: checkers. Simply spur of the moment after dinner, I asked the young's if he wanted to play. He expressed sufficient interest to bring up the game on my iPad. Worked out ni …
Next weekend, Saturday to be exact, after several days of team members, prospects, and some just hoping to gain a spot on my favorite baseball team gather in Port St. Lucie, actual games -- the Spring training variety -- commence. That prospect certainly excites this correspondent. How can you not after viewing that commercial during the Superbowl …
Next week at this time many will be preparing to watch and/or attend gatherings around Superbowl LVII. Many enjoy “buying” boxes around the final score or variations on it. My Knights of Pythias lodge runs a nice variant of superbowl boxes as a fun fundraiser that helps raise funds for our lodge’s foundation. Each year, FDR Lodge 613’s Kings FDR T …
We were clearing a wall unit in Marisa’s (former) room when I found my original glove (baseball mitt) and subject of a blog or two; it has been missing for sometime; I’d been using a newer glove that Marisa decided to use when she played. I thought that glove got lost several years ago. Shelly said she knew the glove was there; never thought to ask …
Gotham needs to make a choice -- and it's not Yankees or Mets but when to see these beloved and successful teams play each other (at Citi Field) in 2023. As Gotham looks forward to another successful outdoor gathering -- we get to enjoy the splendors of Alley Pond Park in Bayside Queens next Saturday, September 17 for our annual (free) Gotham Pic …
The teams I root for have not enjoyed regular and sustained success over the season they play. The Rangers did surprise in hockey and make a run of sorts but when it comes to football, hoops and baseball not much in the way of success, and you find yourself more rooting for individual players to develop. So when over the last two weeks through la …
We took over Citi Field last Tuesday. At least one section of the Left-Field Landing. Last week’s commentary concluded with a mention of Tuesday night when some 250 of my closest friends and their family, friends and colleagues would join me at Citi Field where Friday’s bloggers Yankees and my Mets previewed a later October (and maybe early No …
Depending on one’s age you may be more familiar with the baseball broadcaster/analyst than the total ballplayer many of us “experienced” after Keith Hernandez joined the New York Mets June 15, 1983. It was electric inside and outside Citi Field yesterday (July 9, 2022). The Mets emailed ticketholders to arrive early; my Mets Group Sales rep Aaron R …
It's not exactly unknown that I root for the Mets. Friends and colleagues know, I have strong opinions on personnel, staffing, who plays, player moves, even in game strategy. When first discussed last fall, I was not on board with hiring Buck Showalter to manage my Mets. It turned out what I read about him was not what he turned out to be. It st …
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