Time Management

Got my basketball schedules for travel teams this morning. The next four months kind of look like this:


But keep in mind it doesn't include the in-town team my 10 year old will play on, nor reflect that we start winter training on Fridays for baseball beginning January 7.

Time is a state of mind I guess.

Ch - Ch - Ch - Changes

Clicking around and trying some new designs. SoulSlam was thinking his blog 'o' wisdom was so 2008. So we'll try this for awhile until I come up with something I like better.

I wuz gonna put a little Bowie up, but this is way cooler!

Happy Turkey

Townsfolk...eat hearty, be merry and watch football!

And a Close Second

...and Third, and Fourth and Fifth is this montage from the NY Daily News.

It's all about choices Derek!

Best Picture Ever

Always the leader in Photoshop journalism (well except for the Weekly World News) - the NY Post ran this today. I say BEST PICTURE EVER.


Wouldn't Jeter in a Red Sox uniform be sweet?

MVP

Mr. Josh Hamilton. Congratulations.

I will listen to Michael Kay on ESPN 1050 on the way home rail against this travesty of justice and how Robbie Cano, don't ya know should won. BBBBRRRRRP!

Decision

Looks like the newly appointed college of cardinals, errr, I mean Mets management have made their choice. All reports say Terry Collins is the new manager. Yay.

Look, they can pick whoever they want, but if the choice came down to somebody who has MLB managerial experience, give me a break. This guy last managed in the century before the one we are in now. We might as well have dug up Billy Martin. And how exactly does somebody get that experience if they never get a chance.

Anyway, now it's that time of year again; the time of year where the Mets disappoint their fans by sitting on their hands and do nothing. We'll be running out Ollie P. and Luis on Opening Day 2011.

C-Ya.

Blah Blah Blah

"uhhh, that's gonna leave a mark"

You can't turn the page of NY rags or listen to the local airwaves without running into the biggest story coming from the Bronx, namely the NYY-Jeter negotiations/contract/life partnership.

Fact - Jeter is not really worth much to anybody but the Yankees. Except maybe the Red Sox, who would love to stick it to the Bombers.

Fact - Jeter is older and slower. He's 37, lost a lot of range (A-Rod* has to almost play in the hole so Jeter can cheat towards 2B!), and has seen his best days behind.

Fact - The Yankees rarely overpay for their own free agents. Reference R. Jackson, B. Williams, J. Damon.

Fact - 3 years at $45m is not gonna get this done. If you were the Capt., wouldn't you want money in the A-Rod* stratosphere? I would. He's Jeter.

So we wait. Could get done. Could get bloody.

Finish Line

Apparently the end is almost near for the manager search...as it's been reported that SNY has been told to be at CitiField on Tuesday for a press conference.

Word/rumor/innuendo is that Backman has moved up the depth chart, but Melvin and Collins may still be around.

Rootin' for Wally, SoulSlam is.

OK, I Get It...

The Mets are still looking and interviewing and doing their best...

I know because I get an e-mail just about every other day like this:


I guess to compensate and try to re-connect with the fans, some Marketing Genius inevitably came up with sending out e-mail letters all the time. Well how about an e-mail letter about what we are going to do to MAKE THIS FREAKIN' TEAM BETTER!!!!

I'm waiting patiently.


PS - Anger update: 6 on a 10 scale today.

Calming Effect

Still looking for it. Still livid.

And now I have a headache. Great.

Seething

Can't get into the reasons why, but that is the word that describes me best right now.

Best that some people stay clear of SoulSlam for awhile. Fair warning.

Sagacious

Definition:
1. wise, sage, discerning, clever, intelligent, judicious, acute, sharp, keen, perspicacious

Sagacious. The type of word most mortals do not use. But there is one who uses it with regularity. I'm talking, of course, of Clyde.

Got the Knicks on tonight vs. the Rockets...and Clyde does not disappoint. Like a pimpin' Dr. Seuss, he rhymes with abandon.

My favorite player when I was just learning the art of the dribble. Tribute to you, gangsta (OG - no doubt).

Hoops In Season

So youth travel basketball is in full swing...my other coaching assignment.

This season, I am coaching two teams; asst. for a 7th grade boys team, wear the footwear is very expensive, and head coach for a brand new 4th grade team. I have some attention issues there that need to be corrected.

So tonight I had back-to-back 90 minute sessions. And now I sit here scouring the internet for interesting nuggets. Friday is so nice.

Weekend is pretty much off. Thinking about bringing the boys to the cages. We'll see.

D-Bag!

SoulSlam is not a Jets fan. So I have a lot to say about Mr. Rex Ryan.

What is funny about a 475 lb. loudmouth slob wearing a disguise?

NOT A THING!

This guy is a fool. Learn to manage a clock you bloated bag of wind.

Best New Show

Gotta get to JFK in a few...killing a little time.

Last week, AMC premiered a new show, The Walking Dead.

UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE GOOD. Really.

I'm not a huge zombie fan - but this is kind of a cross between the best of zombie-vision and the 28 Days/ 28 Weeks Later movies (which are great).

Check it out Sunday nights.

DST

Today is DST, and SoulSlam feels a little logey.

Have to fly to the Windy City manana for a couple of days. Yippee.

Did the Mets hire a manager yet?

Managerial Decisions

Sandy A. has a daunting task in front of him, namely picking a new manager for the intrepid heroes of Queens.

I don't get any input but like most fans I'd like to see somebody with a little fire. Wally Backman fits that description - but he might be a little too incendiary and the Mets may want him to manage above Short Season A ball to show his mettle.

Clint Hurdle is another name being thrown about. Not sure my feelings there, since he seemed to lose the Rockies in the middle of the season last year.

Other names I see that get me nowhere: Hale, Oberkfell, Collins, Tuefel, etc.

Gonna be interesting...

Reyes

Jose before the Bob Marley look

Jose got his, namely the p/u of his 2011 option for $11M...nice piece of change.

Time to get over the hump and put up the big numbers, Boyo.

My Cliff Lee - Bad Yankee Fan Story

Lots of yakkin' on the NY airwaves about Cliff Lee's impending free agency and coming to the Yankees; Chuck Greenberg's comments; and the nice people who inhabit the stadium that George conned the city of NY out of.

So I have a story to tell.

A couple years back, my bro-in-law got some tix to the real Yankee Stadium, aka the House That Ruth Built. Good opportunity to take my sons to a baseball mecca. Great.

Drive in (not my van since I have a big Mets logo on the back) - get to the stadium. Indians in town and one Mr. Cliff Lee on the mound. Threw a 3 hitter and won the game 3-0. He was dealin' that night. So that's the Cliff Lee part. While seated in our section, at least two fights break out about 10-15 rows away, since some of the Yankee fans decided that a couple of guys wearing Cleveland jerseys shouldn't be allowed to watch the game.

And the piece of pie that really rocks is this: while waiting for my (then 7 year old) son at the men's room, a loaded fella (20-something) walks up to me (his pal walking into the john) and sees I'm wearing a brick red Majestic pullover. Plain jane model, no team affiliation. So he says "that better not be a Red Sox shirt turned inside out!". To which I respond "so what if it was. What are you and your 'girlfriend' gonna do about it?" He looks at my quizzically. I then say "let me take my kid to his seat and I'll give you guys a good ass-kicking."

He declined my offer.

See. Bad fans. All it takes is a little push back though.

But I'm scary.

Champs

Congrats to the SF Giants on the WS win..wasn't who I was rooting for, but it's fandy-tastic to see a team win that hasn't been there in forever.

GREAT PITCHING!!

And is Wilson channeling his inner Al Hrabosky or what?