One thing I have noticed: when you don’t watch football,
Your brain does not become concussed. I have not watched a down all season, And don’t plan to start now. Best thing about retirement Is not having to trek to the Meadowlands. Unchurched on Sundays, I thank the maker for sweet entire liberated days. One Saturday we were enjoying barbecue in Red Hook, And a college game was blaring over my shoulder. Somewhere in the South. Alabama. Ole Miss. Whatever. The cadence was familiar. Run-pass-kick. * * * I think I could still love basketball, But that is impossible In a city of new pencil skyscrapers And Carmel Anthony. I cannot believe Phil Jackson took that job Without permission to unload him. The Knicks are currently 5-and-26. I would have thought with a gunner like Melo They would at least Be 6-and-25. * * * Soccer helps, but it comes at the wrong time of day. I need to write in the morning. Still, Boxing Day. I love that name. Rooney and Stevie Gerrard and even that vile John Terry. There’ll always be an England -- Maybe into the knockout round of the World Cup. * * * My dream (see Tim Rohan’s piece in the Sunday Times) Is that on the first warm day of spring I will slip into the vast empty steppes near the food court, With a mozzarella hero from Mama’s, In the presence of other hard-core lifer true believers, Who are not there to take freaking selfies. Entire sections for each pilgrim, We separately watch Lagares go back on a fly ball, (“He’s got it,” I reassure my wife, when we watch at home), And DeGrom’s hair and arms flap in the spring breeze. And the two kids strut out of the bullpen, And earnest Daniel Murphy (the Peepul’s Cherce). That sustains me Through the winter of bad teams and ugly new buildings.
Gene Palumbo
12/28/2014 03:18:56 am
"I would have thought with a gunner like Melo
bruce
12/28/2014 04:20:50 pm
george,
mike from Whitestone
12/28/2014 05:03:47 am
Seasons Greetings GV & all.
Ed martin
12/28/2014 06:02:08 am
Back from exhausting Caribbean cruise. The walk to the nearest beach and back to the buffet was exhausting. No thoughts of sports except snorkeling. Canadian friends find curling interesting-do you have Cablevision?
bruce
12/28/2014 04:14:36 pm
ed,
George Vecsey
12/29/2014 03:32:45 am
I saw curling in St., Paul 20 years ago....and a bit at the Olympics. Harvey Araton was the king of curling reporters in Almost Heaven, West Nagano, in 1998.
bruce
12/29/2014 03:56:35 am
george,
George Vecsey
12/29/2014 05:01:28 am
Bruce, that's because you made the NSA remark and somebody said, cut off that cheeky Canadian.
bruce
12/29/2014 05:12:24 am
george, 12/29/2014 02:43:54 pm
George
Thor A. Larsen
12/29/2014 02:44:50 pm
George,
George Vecsey
12/30/2014 05:00:44 am
Thor, I read the box scores, and I love the idea of a team in Brooklyn, but there have been exhibits at the Brooklyn Library and Brooklyn Museum since our last run to Brooklyn a few weeks ago....I think I've just heard enough noise in stadiums for one set of eardrums.
Ed Martin
12/30/2014 11:27:09 am
About Canadians and hockey. I young, ambitious, MBA was sent to Canada to check out prospects for expansion there. When he returned he was invited to his boss's house for dinner. At dinner the boss quizzed him. "Poor prospects," the MBA said, "theres nobody there but hockey players and hookers." There was a longish silence and the boss said, "My wife is from Canada...."; The young man replied, "Oh yes, what position does she play?"
bruce
12/30/2014 11:31:24 am
country seems to change with the times. Comments are closed.
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