bold face prediction

I don't like either team.......will be difficult to see one of them win.....i'll be rooting for my Boxes.....but my prediction is

Patriots        27
Seahags       19


I think Gronkowski is the difference maker and has a day big enough to win MVP.....but they will probably give it to pretty boy Brady.....or the lockerroom attendant.

somber goodbye

I started my Wall Street career on October 9th 1989 for Waterhouse Securities in 77 Water Street 4th floor.......there were 4 Margin Clerks, 2 Acat clerks, one wire operator and 1 Manager....( and a p&s manger in the next section and a new wire operator a few months later) ..its amazing to realize i have stayed in very close contact with 7 of the 10.......Pascale, DeVito, Coniglione, Whalen, Micucci , Coleman and Perniola.

We have attended each others Weddings, kids christenings, milestone birthdays...we have befriended each others spouses...we have had annual BBQ's aka slobfests....attended ball games. Racetracks, breeders cup parties...taken road trips., fla, Vegas,  Atlantic city, Cooperstown.......we've met for drinks, discussed our careers and grown up / matured together.......maybe I havent matured yet, but close.

All of these events...... Every single time I have gotten together with this group , it has been joyous....laughter and celebration....even .in the days after 9/11 there was a tinge of relief that our little core group survived.....

Thats why it was so very hard to get together last weekend and say goodbye to Victor "Beans" Perniola..... The center of it all......the guy who kept us all in touch with him and each other......the guy who kept us all laughing...... The guy you couldn't look at when someone else was venting or ranting because he would crack you up.......

We will continue to get together..... And raise a glass for beansie.....but it will never be the same.

turkey.....continued

Shshhh......don't say this out loud.....but in our good friend and allied nation of Turkey...a NATO member no less....they are refusing to allow distribution of the new edition of Charlie Hebdo if it contains images of Mohammed........ All great houses are destroyed from within.......throw Turkey out of NATO before its too late.

where is America ?

In the height of the Pacific battles of World War II......Admiral Bull Halsey deliberately wandered off course chasing the Phantom Japs carriers......Admiral Nimitz sent s desperate message for Halsey to return and Help at the Battle of Leyte Gulf......the message read "where is, repeat; where is Task Force 34 ?"....... But included in the message was the not so jibberish padding to fool Japs code busters....a simple phrase " the world wonders".......Halsey thought that was from Nimitz and took it to be a harsh and sarcastic personal attack.... Blaming Halsey in part for the casualties at Leyte Gulf......the message operator was simply stealing a line from the Tennyson Poem ( charge of the light brigade)......ah...but I digress.........

Where the F&(k is America on Moslems and Terrorism...... The World Wonders.

wake up America

as if the past 6 years of evidence were not enough to convince the people of this nation that our president is in fact a Moslem, a terrorist sympathizer and a lone wolf hellbent on destroying our allegiances and pumping up our enemies ....comes yesterday.

3 million citizens and world leaders from around the globe came out in Paris to stand up to terrorism and support France......Angela Merkel , Netnyahu...even palastinian imposter mahmoud abbas showed......who wasn't there ? ?  by now you should have geussed...AMERICA.......M.I.A..........not even the Biden Puppet......i guess joe got a reprieve after attending the NYPD funerals for the Hawaiin Golfing obama.

seriously....this is a new low.......and i am getting tired of saying that........this man is disgusting.....where the fuck is he ?   he was all over TV before the Paris attack promising free Community college for everyone....so we know he is not still on vacation......he broke his 16 day silence in Hawaii to tweet KWANZA greetings ( not a joke).........he couldn't even dipatch purple heart Kerry to attend ?

we continue to sail into oblivion,  and that was his plan all along.

harpoon that whale

The good news is that any chance that fat slob Christy had at running for president crashed and burned with his imitation of a giddy 16 year old girl, fawning over jerry Jones and trying to find someone to high five at the cowboy game yesterday.... Maybe he sent a text to his good friend obama, since Hawaii is too far for a hug.......disgrace.....embarrassment..... He's history......

let them eat crow

I was wrrrrr
I was wrrrrrroooo
I was wrong.

I ripped Ohio State all year and I now admit that they were much better than I had ever given them credit for.......Urban Meyer is a great coach, that was never in dispute, but to put up 40 plus points on an SEC champ (Alabama no less) in the Sugar Bowl is amazing....

GO DUCKS is all I have left to say.

nye

PEACE..... LOVE......and Jerry.
Glad tidings, great health, generous prosperity and cold beverages....those are my wishes for the sweater nite community.

Slainte` - Dastrovika- Cheers

And there's a hand my trusty friend
And give me a hand of thine.
And we'll raise a Glass of Good Will Draught
For Auld Lang Syne.

Rex is a good boy

Do not.... Under any circumstance..... Fire Rex Ryan...... He had no depth....no qb..and no playmakers the past few years.....but this guy still got his guys to play hard for him....nobody  (except Tom Coughlin) has coached as well against belichik....... And tom Brady won't be around forever......the Jets should retain Rex, and start "building" a team for a run in 2016.....instead of tearing it down and starting from scratch......again.

Stanley cup finals

This is a hockey blog after all.

It always comes down to seeding and matchups, but I fully expect the Blueshirts to defeat either Tampa or Montreal in the Conf Finals.

Out west its hard to go against the Blackhawks or Kings, But I will.....Pecca Rinni and the Predators are going to the finals.

color blind

and so today the good people of the metropolitan area continue to mourn the death of two police officers, the good people see the only color that matters in this story....BLUE........we would feel no differently if the two police officers murdered had been black, middle eastern or polka dotted......... we would feel no differently if the shooter had been irish, italian or scandinavian....because we stand with the police, we appreciate the dangerous job every single one of them does on a daily basis and we grieve when they are killed............on the other side of the fence we have animals that are angry that the cops that were killed weren't white enough, and judges that release these animals without bail.........and the anti-gun left wonders why so many in this country insist on owning their own weapons.......we are living  in a progressively lawless era, and most people have little to zero confidence in the government to adequately protect this nation "from ourselves" , let alone a foreign threat.

and on the news this morning they are interviewing scores of law enforcement from around the nation.....Men & Women.....White & Black......every nationality......from California, Georgia, Texas, Maine etc etc.......people who left their homes on Christmas Day to drive to Queens to pay respect to a fallen brother....a brother they never met, but respect and honor because of the badge, and the common situation they are all in together........

and the Commander in Chief ?  he couldn't suspend a round of golf to have a press conference in hawaiia to talk about these two officers.....let alone, God Forbid, fly back to attend a funeral......I guess officer Ramos couldn't be his son like he said about  Treyvon.   ..............yep, race is only a factor when it suits them.

go go's

What's the longest vacation you have ever taken in you life ?

Once in my life when I got married , I took 14 days off.....and went to aruba for 8 of those days, but the rest of my life its been 9 days.......5 work days sandwiched by two weekends....but thats a rarity..... Usually just take extended weekends.....

We while the world as we know it is crumbling, north Korea is threatening us, ISIS is running wild, police and law enforcement are under attack in the cities across the nation......the Obamas are on a 16 day vacation in Hawaii....... Yep he feels your pain.

worlds apart

Nice contrast to the BYU-Memphis embarrassment in Miami beach........( if you missed it, tune to ESPN they have been showing it non stop..... An ugly brawl between the two teams....blood, sucker punches and the obligatory stomping on a man while he was on the ground)....merry Christmas

So last nite at the poinsetta bowl ,  San Diego State was attempting a very makeable  35 yard game winning field goal and their kicker pushed it wide right.....after a sideline shot of Navy coach Ken reminding his players not to leave the bench (23 seconds were left) the camera cut back to the field where 3 Navy players were surrounding the SD kicker.......... To shake his hand and pat him on the pads ( he was 3 for 3 before the miss).........then the two coaches at midfield..... A hand shake and a 20 second conversation......... Apparently no trash talk FM either side.......the game was marred by turnovers and coach Ken said afterwards " we were very lucky to escape with a W"...........that type of sportsmanship will NEVER get you hired as an analyst on TV my friend.......they only want murderers, rapist and wife beaters.


Back to back bowl wins for the squids.....it wasnt pretty but we'll take it.

bratton

Well I never had a lot of respect for Police Commissioner before today, but what little I did have has vanished..... Not sure if you saw his nasty exchange with a reporter on TV.....but Bratton was trying to say that most of the anger directed by Cops at deblasio was the result of contract negotiations and that this is nothing new or unique... " show me one mayor in the last 50 years that didn't experience the same thing" Bratton snapped and persisted " go ahead...name one".........this fuckin guy has his head so far up deblasio and sharptons ass that he can't see straight...... He has frank their kool aid.........as for the mayor, well true to form he blamed the media for basically televising the news......zig heil comrade...... Next we take away freedom of the press...

in the Borough of Churches

Sadly our city has changed forever..... There is no going back from this point.... No reset button.... No return to normalcy...... We as a city will never get over this.....this will hurt forever..... This will be tied to deblasio and sharpton.... And it will sting the good people of the city for the rest of their live because we KNOW....... Despite public condemnations.....in the silence if their cold, black hearts....THEY LOVE IT.......and we KNOW it.

Tis the season

In a very nice and Humanitarian move, the icefags of Uniondale canceled their holiday visit to local hospitals..... "These kids are sick enough, some even terminal, there is no need to kick them when their down" said team captain Juan Taco Tavares..........families of the hospitalized children breathed a sigh of relief too......one parent who asked not to be identified said " we have been dreading this visit for weeks, its bad enough when you catch a glimpse of them on TV , but to meet them in person would have been nauseating and humiliating.

hope

in bitter contrast to the spoiled brat hipsters that are demonstrating and destroying this great country , stand fine young men of the Army & Navy.....The Corp of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen will be on display in Baltimore this afternoon.......a shining and glimmering light of Hope.....this is what America is still capable of producing.....this is what's RIGHT with the World.......this is who America really is and Hopes to be always be........it will be a hard fought, clean and bitter battle.....nobody looses today, least of all America.....America wins because these kids will be representing and protecting us on the Battlefields of the World tomorrow.........today....December 13th....America gets an early Christmas Present.

lots of chitter chatter

holy swampy waters batman.....the email has been ringing off the hook since the sweater nite letters went in the mail......lots of folks chiming in about Te Jean Caddotte and the Fishstix Bet......some folks even demanding that MATTEAU MATTEAU render a verdict...........just like Garner & Brown, the ruling on the field stands.....no overturn.

Columbia

those trust fund babies at columbia petitioned the school to postpone their midterm exams because they were traumatized by the verdicts in Ferguson and Staten Island , AND they didn't study for their exams because they were too tired from protesting.......they are an absolute product of their self entitled environment, this is how and what they have been taught their whole lives, this is all they know, and they are the "leaders" of tomorrow...........just give everybody an "A" and move on......will the last american turn out the lights before the apocalypse please.