metropolitan misery

From the flushing files of being a tormented Mets Fan:

The incredible rash of devastating injuries continues with Zack Wheeler.......in what has become a right of spring came the news he needs Tommy John surgery....by Memorial day we'll have half the rotation and bullpen on IR.

Side note......if I read one fuckin less than enthusiastic comment from terry Collins about Juan Lagares, I may drive down to Florida and strangle him myself.

This sob is a gold glove center fielder with speed and he hits for average.... Pencil him in the lineup with a permanent sharpie and leave him alone.

cops shot in feguson

Well its been about 72 hours since those Cops were shot in Ferguson and I haven't heard their names or race description on the news.......let alone seen photos from their high school graduation and proclamations from their families about how saintly they are.

Happy Birthday

Phil Lesh = 75
Breanne O'Dowd = 23

saint Francis

Kudos to Glenn Braica for not trying to sugar coat the loss.......he was brutally honest and 100% accurate...... The Terriers lost the NEC title game because certain alumni were too preoccupied and self centered to watch the game..... Glenn showed hutzpa by calling out his old bishop ford teammate by name....."Dennis Nolan, or eggroll as some of you know him, flat out refused to watch the game" Glenn stated....." He had a meeting......not a special meeting.....but the same ol tired meeting he has been attending for twenty plus years".......,he continued... " this is a meeting he attended on Monday and will probably attend on Wednesday..... The same format and hungover rambling that plays out 179,000 times daily across the nation in churches, school cafeterias and pine rooms"....the angst and frustration was clear on Glenn's face as he struggled to continue.... " a frustrated Ford Falcon I suppose" was the only reasoning Glenn could come up with when quizzed further about the absent eggrolla...... But it was plain to all that Das Das Strovika had cost his beloved almamater a shot at history.

Stalwarts from around the tri state area ( and Staten island,) gathered in Taverns to cheer on the Terriers and attempt to out drink the coolers....I was in Brannigans of Red Bank with former Saint Franks Valedictorian Donnie Hoff as the mood swung from a new years eve gala to groundhog day.

Young Dan Woods was spotted in the Yellow Hook sipping an IPA and waxing poetically about the Trapp Bros and Joe Friesen to no avail.......as once again the college of knowledge snatched defeat from inevitable victory........."I did my part" Dano was quoted as saying as he waltzed out after the game.

Steven Oliver and Dennis McDermott were inconsolable after the loss, but Roy Dilorenzio banged to put it in perspective.... " most guys were more interested in the Rangers v Islanders to be honest"......good point Roy.....the truth shall set you free.

the Terror's of Remsen Street

Hang on to your bowler hats and skull caps.....the borough of Churches is about to erupt like never before..........Tuesday Night.....live from the Pope Center in Brooklyn Heights, the Saint Francis Terriers host Robert Morris......a berth to the NCAA tournament is on the line........buckle up for safety......this is gonna be a wild one !

Kentucky Derby

Big Day yesterday in the Derby Preps for 2015

El Kabeir won the Gotham.

Dortmund won the Santa Anita

Carpe Diem took the Tampa Bay Derby.


American Pharoh and Bob Baffert are looming on the horizon.........s/b a great next 60 days until a showdown at Churchill....

selma and louise

the 50th anniversary of the edmund pettis bridge march and selma  and all things civil rights......i swear as i watched the ceremonial walk over the bridge yesterday, i couldnt help but think that obama was BLACK....he had that old man civil rights shuffle down pat.....holding hands and talking like a southerner.......reminded me of when Hillary marched in south carolina and declared..."i aint in no ways tired" as a show of solidarity with black woman....because that's the way they talk...they dont know none good english them blackies........oh but if a white man every pandered down to this lowest common denominator....let the crufixion begin.

but seriously, the irony of a twice elected black president stating that blacks still face insurmountable odds against succeeding in America 2015 was priceless.......he and other black elected officials went on to say that some of the black kids today have NO IDEA what it was like 50 years ago in America.......well....just saying.....maybe thats because those conditions that you continue to blame for everything from unemployment, drug addiction, single parent families to not winning powerball.....are gone........but to admit that would be to surrender ones CRUTCH........to state the obvious truth that there is nothing preventing a black man from going to school and becoming President of the United States would be to accept responsibility for your own actions......AND THAT CANT IN NO WAYS HAPPEN........

nope , we have to remind these young black kids today that the white man is the devil, the cops want to murder you and you might as well crawl back into the ghetto and start shooting up and cashing your welfare check......the cards are stacked agianst you....even with a black president, we cant win......we want admittion to your country clubs, but we also want our own Kwanza Hollidays......we want to be able to live in beverly hills and Palm Beach....but we resent yuppies and fags from buying homes in the ghetto and fixin them up..........we are equal....but still oppressed....and we hate the Mexicans, Chineese and every other immigrant that has followed in our footsteps and climbed the ladder to success ahead of us.....while we still clammer for handouts, and special treatment.......and on the 100th anniversary of all this nonsens....what can we really expect to be different ?   just asking.

acting my age

Don't expect a clamer gentler blogger just because I'm fifty in dog years.