Friday, February 25, 2011

In search of the elusive Meatball Sub after a blizzard

Hi there. Well just when you thought we've had enough snow to last us for a while, guess what happens? A good 12 inches gets dumped on us as we head into March. So here I am at home after the drive from downtown Glens Falls. The new SUV is very adept in snow I might add. So I didn't want to cook tonight and I was also in the mood for something quick and easy. I decided to get just a meatball sub. I go the national franchise chain place where I have enough points on my card that I don't have to pay for it and was disappointed to find out that the two locations I stopped into didn't have any meatballs left. Bummer. On to other things.
Note to Charlie Sheen. Go back into detox and when you're thoroughly dried out, get on your knees and start kissing the ring of Chuck Lorre. You're killing that cash cow of a sitcom you star in and trust me nobody wants to hire you the way you're acting in public now. Nobody I know is clamoring for "Major League 4" or "Hot Shots, 3 is a magic number!"
Did anybody realize that last Sunday was "Hockey Day in America?"
So Dax is a beaver? I wouldn't have guessed that in a million years. No really, he's a beaver?
The Phantoms actually paid that guy to fly in from L.A.; dance around like a fool and throw t-shirts to the crowd last Friday night! Where's Claude Scott and his trumpet when you need him.
Got sectional hockey tomorrow and that means no trip down to Hudson Valley Community College for sectional basketball. The McDonough Center gym is huge and the shooters backdrop can be as bad as the Civic Center's.
Jimmer Fredette is on tv Saturday at 2pm on CBS.
Finally got the DVD of Billy Joel's "Last Play at Shea." Just seeing the parts with Paul McCartney was worth the price alone. Great watch. Enjoy the weekend...Leccese out

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Be my Valentine?..I don't think so...

Hi there. Post Valentine's/Super Bowl/Birthday edition. Lot's to cover so lets get started.
As for the Superbowl. You don't win games committing 3 turnovers, it's that simple. Didn't really pay attention to the commercials and I could care less about the halftime show.
The night before the big game when we had that snow thunderstorm, it was one of the few times in the 30 years of living in the area that I thought I might actually die. The wind, the lightning, and the thunder scared the living you what out of me.
So, if we have this global warming thing supposedly happening, how do you explain the weather in Dallas Super Bowl week? It didn't look like 70 degrees and sunny the entire week to me.
There's worse things in life than being caught on camera being fed popcorn to you by Cameron Diaz, Alex Rodriguez. Like having to explain to a grand jury or senate hearing your use of P.E.D's. I'd be bragging to everyone. "Hey, did you see who I was with at the Super Bowl!" "That's right, the girl from There's Something About Mary!"
As for the birthday it was nice and quiet and uneventful. How much trouble could one get into on a Monday anyway? One recommendation for those on the verge of celebrating. If you're in a funk like I have been for the longest while, don't watch City Slickers. I watched before the Super Bowl. It will make you more depressed. I could relate to Billy Crystal's character. However I have no desire to go on a cattle drive plus every time I see Norman the calf, I swear off eating Veal Parm.
The only thing I know about the Grammy's was that some guy named C-Lo Green sang with the Muppets dressed like some George Clinton wannabe and Lady GaGa with the egg thing. Is she some sort of performance artist trying redraw that fine line or just a certified freak? My money's on being a freak.
This weeks sign of the apocalypse. Adam Sandler got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his new movie which he co-stars with Jennifer Aniston was tops at the box office this past week.
Bill O'Reilly interviewing the president before the Super Bowl on Fox was as bad as watching Keith Olbermann host"Football Night in America."
If they ever wanted to do a "Major League 4" they could use Charlie Sheen's real life porn, drugs, and booze addictions and write a script around his character Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn.
I had a fantasy sports owners' worst nightmare last Wednesday during the 8-6 Bruins win over the Habs. Two of my three goaltenders squared off against each other.
You want to why the Phantoms are going to continue to suck? Here's why. The parent club in Philadelphia made a trade Monday for Kris VerSteeg from Toronto and swapped both a first and third round pick in the upcoming 2011 draft. When you're trying to win the Stanley Cup, often times draft picks and prospects become assets in trades. The farm club often gets the short end of the deal.
Adirondack League basketball championship games on WWSC tonight. Should be a couple of great games between Argyle and Lake George. One more high school sports note. The first draft of the 2011 football schedule was released. Only 6 1/2 months til opening kick-off September 2nd! Leccese out.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Just toss the coin and kick off the damm ball will you please!

Hi there. Not only is it Superbowl weekend but the day after brings the arrival of another birthday. If you want to know my age, it's the same number as the Superbowl and just like the big game I've adopted the roman numeral system to give out my age. Monday I turn XLV. How will I spend it you ask? Calling the Hudson Falls/Glens Falls basketball game at Glens Falls high on WWSC. It could be worse.
Opie's Upset special prediction on the game itself. Pittsburgh 24 Green Bay 20.
With all the icy weather that the Dallas area received during Superbowl week, you think that the NFL is having second thoughts about having 2 of its next 3 big games in Indianapolis and New York? At least the game in Indianapolis will be played indoors.
I have one wish for Sunday's game. That one of the punters hit the "mega tyrannosaurus rex jumbo tron" scoreboard that hangs over the field so we can watch Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones have some sort of medical episode like a seizure or heart attack. Hopefully it will look like a scene from "Sanford and Son," when Fred would grasp his heart and say, "Elizabeth the big ones' coming. I can feel it now!"
Did St. John's really beat Duke by 15 last Sunday? I thought they stopped playing basketball at St. John's when Lou Carnesecca retired and Chris Mullin and Mark Jackson both graduated.
If you're gonna sue the Wilpons, don't you think it should be for a really good reason. Like why did they build such a joke of a ball park like Citi-Field. Not due to the fact they are rich and were friends with that dirt bag Bernie Madoff and may have profited from that Ponzi scheme.
The most exciting basketball player to watch in the city of Los Angeles is not a Laker, but in fact it's Blake Griffin of the Clippers. Your eyes are not deceiving you. I just wrote he plays for the CLIPPERS!
When I saw that picture of Jimmer Fredette holding one of our "Player of the Game" plaques in Sports Illustrated this past week, it made me proud that I get to broadcast those games.
This weeks sign of the apocalypse is a triple header. 1. "Dallas" is coming back to tv and 79 year old Larry Hagmann will be a part of the cast. 2. A script for the "Mighty Ducks 4" is in the works; and here's the clincher : Larry the Cable Guy has got a new tv show on of all places, "The History Channel!" Brutal, absolutely brutal.
If the groundhog had seen his shadow on Wednesday, I was calling Andrew Zimmern and have him do a special "Bizarre Foods" that debunks animal weather myths and have Mr Zimmern eat the creatures that are involved with them. Does groundhog taste like chicken, Andrew?
I'm not crazy about the new Phantoms mascot, "Dax" but if Dave Raymond had a hand in it, I'll give him a chance to win me over in time.
Throwing out some props to Chip Ordway and a story done about him on the local Fox affiliates' news cast. Check it out at their website online.
I was saying to Dan that we haven't had a good goalie fight in a long time. Sorry to say that the Brent Johnson/Rick DiPietro bout did not count as a "good" goalie fight.
One more thing before I wrap up. With all the bad weather we had earlier this week, I originally planned to spend a night in town at a hotel. Well the storm let up enough so I didn't have to, but I didn't want to cook. I got take out from an Italian place. If you want to one reasons we're becoming an obese society, two words: portion control or in this case too much portion. I got a cup of soup, entree, and dessert. My so-called meal for one was enough for 2. I'm getting 4 meals out of it. The dessert I'm saving that for Monday as my XLV birthday treat after the basketball game.
Started ordering the seeds and starter kits for garden 2011. They don't call me the "Garden Boy" and this blog "The Greenhouse Effect' for nothing you know...Leccese out.