Sunday, May 20, 2012

Getting caught up after a crazy couple of weeks

Hi there.  When I looked at the date of my last post which was May 2nd, I found it hard to believe that it has been 3 weeks.  I think in the 4 year history of The Greenhouse Effect that this has been the longest stretch between entries.  Even being sick or just plain busy never stopped me from posting at least once a week or every 10 days.
Back to business.  Leading off a horse named, I'll Have Another. Two great runs to victory in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Bodemeister is quickly becoming known as the greatest pace setter in history.  Mike Smith is an amazing jockey, but I have question the pace that Bodemeister ran in both races.  In Derby, he was going way too fast and the horse ran out of gas.  In the Preakness, the horse ran slower split times than in the Derby, but didn't put it in high gear as he made his way around the far turn into the home stretch.  With the shorter distance, the pace Bodemeister set in the Derby would have won him the Preakness.  Mario Gutierrez rode I'll Have Another perfectly.  Keeping him within striking distance and out of traffic and then just at the right moment getting the horse to break in high gear.  Don't start speculating about winning the Triple Crown.  We horse racing fans are desparate for one since Affirmed last did it in 1978.
By now the big move to our new home at 238 Bay Road in Queensbury has happened.  So you think moving to a new home is hard?  Try moving 3 radio stations.  Having to co-ordinate studio moves with minimal down time is like trying to choreograph a ballet.  Then there's all the satellite equipment, processing, and of course the furniture and workstations.  There's still more stuff to be brought over and put away in new spots.  It has been a one hell of a crazy week.  The two guys who have gotten the worst of it are Jim Scott and Alan Doane, who's studios are still under construction.  Alan is doing the best production he can in a temporary spot and Jim's news room is about 75 percent done.  He should be able to broadcast Tuesday if everything lines up perfectly for our engineer to finish everything. 
I wonder if the Las Vegas odds makers had a line on which Los Angeles sports team would make it to finals.  The odds on favorite would have been the Lakers, right?  Well the guy who put his money on the Kings will be a very wealthy man barring a monumental collapse.
Rangers/Devils in the Eastern Conference semi's.  Doesn't get any better than that.  Gary Bettman is thanking the hockey gods for that one.  He's even begging the media to leave Coach Torts alone and let Devils coach Peter DeBoer do all the talking.  
Even the most hardcore, passionate baseball fan had no idea that this years' All-Star game was being played in Kansas City at Kaufman Stadium.  It has been nearly 30 years since the Royals were the slightest bit relevant.
Can someone pass on this note to Mitch Albom.  Please come back to The Sports Reporters!
I didn't watch, but saw some of the sketches Eli Manning did as host of Saturday Night Live.  The cross dressing thing gave me the creeps.  The best sketch hands down was the public service parody, "Little Brothers." That maniacal laugh at the end was downright hilarious and scary at the same time.  Never thought Eli would do something like that.
On the local front, a woman in Saratoga County walked into a Curtis Lumber store and a Stewarts shop in the Ballston Spa area naked within minutes of each other.  The woman claimed she was merely expressing her freedom to be fully liberated by walking nude into those places.  What's even better was mental health checked her out and found no psychiatric issues whatsoever.  This is one case where I would have sought a second opinion.
Both the How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory season finales were in two words, disappointing and lame.
Check out the new Hits 95 Nine web page at www.wcql.com
Garden 2012 is planted!  To quote Tom Petty, 'The waiting is the hardest part." 
Next projects on tap.  Getting carpet installed and writing the sequel to the Morning Club Christmas Carol.
Is it O.K. for this Mets fan to buy some of the cool Red Sox ice cream novelties that are made by Hood that you can find in local grocery stores?  If I was a Yankee fan it would be considered a violation of being a Yankee fan.  Buying any food product with Red Sox on the label.  I've noticed there are never any cool food products that say, "Mets" on it.  It's always Yankees or Red Sox.  Now I know how Jets fans feel.  LMAO.
Finally, if I have to see underside of one more counter top to either to take down or set up and plug in equipment, I think I'm going to runaway to Flushing and watch the Mets play at CitiField with my seats in the Pepsi Porch.  It will have driven me that crazy to do something like that...Leccese out.

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