Let’s go… Slaho!

Today I’m going to be venturing out with 100 of my closest friends to see the least watched sporting event in all of the United States of America… a Florida Marlins home game. Thanks to us we will almost single-handedly double the actual attendance at the stadium! Looking forward to those foul balls coming my way!! Can’t wait to do “The Ripple”! (not enough people to do a “Wave”). And we can personally heckle the players from the opposing team (the Brewers in this case) because the fan to opposing player ratio is a very attractive 8:1.  We could form therapy groups with such favorable numbers! There’s nothing like going to a Marlins game!

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By popular demand (OK, I had one request, but none against, so I take that as you are looking forward to this) I will be blogging on my take on the ever popular fist bump.  For whatever reason (I really can’t think of one) I have been wondering about how and why we have evolved into bumping knuckles to say hello.  It seemingly came out of nowhere and now it seems that everyone is doing it.  So of course I am going to share my theory on how it became so popular… GERMS. Continue reading →

So, I promised myself I’d write today.  But who the hell wants to write after watching the train wreck that was the last 6 minutes of the Heat game.  Right after D-Wade hits the 3 to put them up by 15 my wife was talking about how we are demoralizing them.  I was quick to remind her about Dallas’ ability to come back on games like this.  She almost laughed at me.  I guess I’d been watching too much basketball because I definitely was not comfortable with this lead.  And I was right to feel that way, obviously.  I saw in the last week Dallas do it TWICE to OKC.  I also saw the Heat do it to Chicago.  It was bound to happen at least once in this series.  Unfortunately, it had to happen to us.

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Last time I was heard from, I was talking up how I’m going to start writing on a daily basis.  It looked promising for a while, and I thought that maybe I’d slowly pick up momentum.  That didn’t happen. May came and went and I nary wrote a word. Pathetic. But honestly, I wasn’t expecting how I’d react to what was before me.  An NBA playoff season that I would actually care about.  Yes, that’s right.  I’m blaming my lack of productivity on BASKETBALL. In case you didn’t notice, my last post was April 23rd.  At that point the Heat had just played and won their third playoff game against an overmatched Sixer team.  The next night they lost to this team, and my intrigue set in.  I had to watch them finish them off.  then I had to watch every other game to see who they’d play next and what they would have to do to defeat them too.  And I had to watch the West coast games to analyze all the potential opponents for the Heat should they get to the Finals. Continue reading →

You’re only as old as you feel.  I stand by this assertion.  Anybody who knows me knows that I am a kid at heart. I like to kid around and laugh.  I like to do athletic activities. I love amusement parks and going on rides.  And I like to talk about meaningless stuff and turn everything into a joke. As my wife likes to say, she has 5 kids – the four she bore and me. Continue reading →

The first week of baseball.  This is always a time that brings hope to a lot of people across the nation.  Everybody starts off with a clean slate.  There is still hope for every single team to do something special, to turn some heads, to beat the odds.  Sometimes these dreams materialize for teams that most people write off annually… a couple of years back it was the Rays, last year it was the Reds. Other times teams that are “due” just eventually bring more heartbreak to their hometowns (these can simply be read as “Chicago Cubs”). Within a week some posers are already out of the playoff picture, though their fans may hold on to hope anyway. For others, the entire year builds up to the potential for a championship. For one team in particular, this dream occurs year in, and year out.. they are ALWAYS contenders. Of course I am talking about the Yankees. Continue reading →

People who know me know that I don’t have a propensity to curse. That is, of course, unless I’m playing Balderdash, where all bets are off.  But that’s another story.  In general I try to to steer from the four letter words.  I rarely use them with my wife, and never in anger.  I NEVER use them with my kids… my own, OR my students.  And I don’t think my parents have EVER heard me use an inappropriate word. Sure around my friends I will let a few go here and there, but in general I am one of the more “clean” mouthed people I know. Continue reading →

You know I really shouldn’t be writing right now. It’s late, I’m tired and I still have a ton of work to do.  But if I grade one more paper tonight I’m going to go berserk, meaning that I’ll wind up yelling at the top of my lungs, meaning that I will wake up my whole family, MEANING that I will never go to sleep tonight. So, I’ll write instead, which will probably soothe me, and eventually send me to bed real soon (go ahead and argue that I could be in bed right now, but I’m committed to this and Robert Kudja is expecting this post tonight. He told me so. Who’s Robert Kudja, you say?  Well, I’ll tell you… hey wait a second, you’re trying to make me lose my train of thought aren’t you… NICE TRY! I have thoughts to write down… an intro to Rob will have to wait!) Continue reading →

Over the last few years I have actually considered myself a writer. Sure I’m not a published writer, but I feel like I am a writer nonetheless.  If it was up to me, I would write every day.  I don’t write more now because I find myself grading papers or working, or doing stuff around the house, or tending to the kids.  Of course, then there is the time that I am running.  I can’t write then either.  I have found that if I run on a particular day, it is almost impossible for me to write, and vice versa (you guessed it, I didn’t run today).  In a perfect world, I would do both.  Damn, the imperfect world!!! But the truth is I love to write.  And yes, I love to read what I wrote later on so I could see what my state of mind was at any one snapshot in time.  But why did I start writing?  What spurred me on to doing this? Continue reading →