end of an era (parseghian)

so i am sittin in the Heidelberg Tavern, swashin down a mug of Radderberger in the tiny enclave of new jersey known as the mile squared, and word begins to spread like a cancerous wildfire that the legendary CHAR House we lovingly call Arthurs Tavern was on life support....not expected to live to see the fireworks on the 4th....THIS CANT BE....and so without a moment to spare, save 2 more reddebergers and a quick stop with the nazi in the 8th street Tavern we hightailed it over to Arthurs for the wake....one last delicous serving of Shrimp, Garlic Bread, Hot Peppers , Cole Slaw and SCHTEAK ! ! ! if this grand old dame shutters her doors this weekend, the world will be a sadder place.......happy to be there one last time, wishing only we had time to do her justice, but for the record, the final attendance was higgins, hoffman, molloy, O'Dowd and Pazarecki.......sleep easy baby, theres nothin worth stealin in here (B.Dylan)

Run for Ryan

i strongly recommend the RuN for Ryan......a 6year old boy that suffered from heart disease his entire short life and passed away, his Dad announced today that next year will be the LAST run for Ryan..... ...its a tough 5K through Horse country in Middletwon/Highlands....and afterwards you get to drink beer with real live horsies....he wanted my Hakell hat and a sip of my beer, I gave him nothing ...i recoginized him from Monmouth Park where i lost a mortgage payment on his sorry tail.

vote NO aug 1st

Enough is enough already……now comes word that the Pharmacy Killer proposed to his fiance on the jumbotron at an islander game….this Team must be forced to leave the Tris-state area before more inoocent people are killed.

hwllo darkness my old friend

as Paul Simon would concur, things have been very quiet around headquarters lately....august humidity has found us in mid june and with the stanley cup finals now in the rear view window and our good friend anthony weiner searching for a job, well we just dont have much to say ....

belmont

the pick is Master of Hounds and Stay Thirsty closes out the Exacta....

for the record

last nights OT goal was NOT the fastest in NHL Finals History, that honor belongs to Brian Skrudland for the Canadiens in game 2 of the 1986 finals at Calgary.

the day the winds of change did shift

ah poor Jim Tressel....he was riding high for a long time ..and i hated him and THE Ohio State University.....and then came labor Day weekend 2009....and they hosted NAVY...a game I was supposed to be at inside the bIG HOrshoe of Colombus Ohio ( except eggrollvika backed out at tyhe last minute.......NAVY gave em a run for the money, but that's not the story......

The story is that Coach Tressel ....for the first and only time in Ohios State History...allowed the visiting team to take the field simultaneously with the Buckeyes.....and Ohio State players carried American Flags to honot their visitors........

That is when i turned my hatred into admiration, and thus became both a Tressel and a Buckeye fan ...kinda........I rooted for them against Maze N Blue and most of the other Little Ten schools ( Never against Penn St, The Illini or NWestern...)

and that is the only explanation for why a Coach who could do NO WRONG in Columbus, had to resign the other day......the Tomcat Curse......if I like you or root for you or stop hatin ya........yer doomed...