Uncle Gordy

Bayridge is a strange terrain, with even stranger characters that have adorned her landscape over the years. Decades and probably centuries....... Gordon Contessa was a beauty...a lot of folks probably got their ass kicked by this assassin.....some friends were swindled out of nickels for his drug habbit....and some folks he didn't know were straight out robbed perhaps....but he was good hearted , tough, mental case ......he was one of the toughest toughest guys in Bayridge in his prime..... and not to sound like Sally field , but he really, really liked me.....I always knew I had a friend in Uncle Gordy.....the more Collins broke his balls, the more Gordy liked me.....I found him in liev Erickson Park once and brought him home to live over Napper's for a few weeks...he used to order pay per view movies and swear that they came on tv free....he got locked out once and climbed up the fire scape and banged on Seamus's Window to get in......but I helped him and he never forgot that.....he always told me that he had my back....and that meant something to me.....I haven't seen him in 2 years , but news of his passing makes me sad.....you weren't a great man Gordy....but none of us are....but I loved ya , and I miss you already.

Stark realities...part 99

Don't want to leave this world behind me now,.....don't want to move to the outskirts of town..... don't want to loose the comradery of my neighborhood bar......don't want to leave this world somehow......I have so many things I've yet to do..... places and people I need to see....a thousand sunrises of brand new days.... I pray they're waiting for me......Not sure whats lying around the bend....a little further down the road I guess....don't know what happens when the lights go out, but I pray it's for the best......Never made it to that special place, where dreams and wishes all come true......they say cream and bastards rise to the top , but it's a different path I've chosen for you.......I say my prayers for other people now , can't see the point in wasting your time, I hope someday we all meet again, but in a softer world next time....(w.Stark)

All the LIEFS are brown,and the sky is grey

Well....I may have been California dreaming during the rotisserie draft, but I showed the depths of my GM savvy by dismantling and rebuilding my roster in 2 leagues and rallying to make the playoffs in both.... playoffs? Playoffs ??.....that's right Jim Mora....Wassabi#9 ....and SMALL CHANGE are both going to the playoffs.... Thanks Jay Ajay and other late additions.

Rally round the troops Duff

Jet fans...... football fans.....the entire nation couldn't help but wince in pain at the embarrassing night at the meadowlands that was jets v colts 12/5/16.....the team that brought us the butt fumble and the fake spike....a litany of H.O.F. coaches like Kotite & Hermie Edwards..... the ones that got away like Carrol & Belicheat.....a team that mastered the draft with the picks of Ron Faurot , Blair Thomas, Kyle Brady, Johnny Lam Jones and Johnny Mitchell has sunken to an unimaginable new low.....it's not right.....it's not fair.....they need a boost....a metaphorical shot in the arm.....and I know just the man to do it....your favorite Battalion chief and mine needs to bleed green for j-e-t-s nation....and I know just the gesture....I call on you Mister Duffy to pick up Bryce (even the losers get lucky sometime) Petty in rotisserie football and start him this Sunday....who cares who you are playing ( Wasabi#9 for those keeping score at home) stand for the anthem and stand for the Jets......

Payback

And so 75 years have passed since the dirty yellow Japs executed a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, killing 2400 Americans.... despite all the horseshit that passes for "history" that is being force fed to kids in school... they thought that they had won the war that day.....they thought they had crushed the United States Navy and would enjoy Naval supremecy in the Pacific....they thought they would rain terror on the shipping lanes and soon it would be the Americans that would surrender....they were wrong..... The United States Navy collectively stood up , brushed off and went about the business of making America Great Again......and in the end.....when the yellow menace was forced to their tiny knees to beg for an end to the war...... fittingly it was onboard the USS Missouri that the agreed to an Unconditional surrender.....let's teach that lesson today... instead of apologizing for winning you self loathing miscreant spoonjiah.

A rifle on my shoulder , 6 shooter in my hand.

" Lord I've been all around this world"............and yesterday came a surprise phonecall from the suburbs of Mosul in the sandstorms of Iraq....from my original shipmate on the good destroyer Luce , who will not be named here for privacy protection.....and as we rehashed the olde and made plans for mugs raising in the future, he mentioned that he has been checking out the BLOG.......better than AFRTS.....sweater Nite now brings updates from the taverns to the troops on the Frontline.......as John Lennon would say " we're bigger than Jesus"............. And in the spirit of the military, a great story making the rounds about an American hero....Ray Chavez....he turns 104 tomorrow.....he is the oldest known living Navy survivor from the Pearl harbor attacks....he lives in San Diego and works out on a treadmill every week.....the other gym members raised money to send him to Hawaii for the 75th anniversary observance on tge 7th....he said he's excited to go , but worries that it could be his last time going...and then he laughs....he didn't talk about that day after....he only broke his silence on the 50th Anniversary.... because he thought it was important to talk about....that's an American.....that's a HERO...God Bless Ray Chavez....God Bless our U.S.A.