One of the best things that my dad passed down to me is a fanatical rooting interest in Baseball, and more specifically, the New York Yankees. I became a fan at the dawn of my Golden Age of the Yankees, in the 1950s. During the span of Manager Casey Stengel's stewardship, they won 10 American League Pennants and 7 World Series.In 1954, an off yea …
Do you remember the Animal House movie and, more specifically, the "Road Trip" exclamations?Well, I'm endeavoring to set up a family/sports fan road trip to iconic Fenway Park, home of the Yankees' arch rival Boston Redsox and the "Green Monster" left field wall. My inspiration/aspiration is to have my two sons (David and Alex) and two grandsons ( …
Prominent people who came into the world on the anniversary of the birth our nation include:Meyer LanskyMitch Miller"Dear Abby"Leona HelmsleyEva Marie Saint (101 today!)Gina LollibrigidaNeil SimonAl DavisBill WithersFloyd LittleMichael MilkenHowever, in my opinion, the most prominent person born on this day is "The Boss", George Steinbrenner, the d …
When I was first introduced to Major League Baseball almost all the spectators were male and they wore suits and hats (pictured). How times have changed! Now the crowd is diverse, yet their mode of dress nearly uniform. Everyone heralds their home team loyalty on their breast, back or head. We are living in the 21st Century age of lushly abundan …
The Yankees, my boyhood favorite team, imploded Wednesday night and lost the World Series :(The loss caused me to suffer exquisite agony. Exquisite Agony is a turn of phrase I rarely use, but when I do I really feel it!It describes pain I experience in an extremely raw and gnawing way. I feel it down to my very core. It is a feeling which border …
As a lifetime NY Yankee fan I have been called out by many for being hypocritical (or worse) for wearing a Met hat and colors while chanting "Let's Go Mets!"Well, there is a back story and a method to my madness. First the back story: I have been a Met fan too, since their 1962 inception, had Met season tickets (which explains my son's Met fandom …
When you're wrong, you're wrong and must own up to it!I was wrong about Met Shortstop Francisco Lindor and here's why. Rookie New York Met owner Steve Cohen traded for and signed Lindor in 2020. The deal was for 10 years for the then astronomical sum of $341,000,000. In the years following the signing I was of the outspoken opinion that Cohen ha …
Sports are considered a positive distraction from the highs and lows of everyday life. In my youth I played them all with soccer and baseball standing out. In my middle years it was softball and running. I'm proud to say I finished 33 marathons, qualified for the Boston Marathon at the age of 40 (3:09 then, 3:05 now) and pitched the Gotham Batmen …
Monday's annual Gotham Networking, Bob Formica Memorial Golf Outing (sponsored by Raj and Sharon Goel's Brainlink International), dawned clear and crisp and warmed to a perfect, sunny, 70 degree day. So many great things occurred on this special day, shepherded by Entertainment Chair Norm Spizz and his stellar Golf Committee. Registration was see …
On Labor Day we hosted a family gathering and it was the perfect opportunity for Batting Practice. Batting Practice is an athletic tradition shared by me, my son David and his son Jackson. We take a huge box of softballs, a heavy bat and our mitts to the local schoolyard where each of us takes their swings at the plate, another lobs it in and the …
My life orbits around 4 different, significant, entities: www.gothamnetworking.com, www.people4peace.net, the mentor project.org and tarterkrinsky.com. For background, please click on each link. Two nights ago, there was a confluence, as all four entities "collided" at Citi Field in Queens when the Yankees played the Mets at Gotham's annual "Ta …
Last Monday was my wife Joanne's birthday and I noticed a number of nice birthday greetings on her rarely visited Facebook page. Being the ever nice spouse, I alerted her to it and directed her to them. Of course, she was pleased and I encouraged her to "Like" each message. When she questioned why, I explained that it was "social media intercours …
On Sunday I will be throwing out the first pitch at the (Mets minor league team) Coney Island Cyclones game (against the Yankees Hudson Valley minor league team). This is a great honor (bestowed upon me by my Gotham City Networking colleagues, especially Rosalia Ruberto and Corey Bearak) and I am both most appreciative and bigly apprehensive...I am …
My wife Joanne is an artist with different tastes and talents than me who during the arc of our dating and marriage went her own way while I was inordinately consumed by sports and fandom. Recently, however, there has been an appreciable and appreciated shift. Maybe because of Aaron Judge’s epic season or the late season call up of Rookie Osw …
Aaron Judge is a 30 year old, 6’7”, 282 pound Unicorn, ie, a person or thing that is highly valued. Aaron is presently employed, as my most favorite player, by my favorite Major League Baseball (MLB) team, the New York Yankees. No doubt, he is highly valued, but the problem is quantifying his Unicorn value. Aaron achieves Free Agency at the end o …
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