Hi there. Tomorrow morning begins that annual seven month ritual for me known as high school sports. Since WWSC doesn't broadcast spring sports such as baseball, softball, and lacrosse; as soon the Basketball Tournament wraps up at the Civic Center at the end of March, my play by play year ends. Well the cycle begins again. Helmets get strapped on for the first time and high school football season officially begins. Practice without pads for a week. Then the real stuff happens. Contact drills, scrimmages on the 24th and 25th; and the first games take place Labor Day weekend. The broadcast schedule has been released to the local papers and can be found at the radio station pages on Facebook. Can't wait to take the camera I got last Christmas and take pictures and videos. I'll head to practices during the second week and of course do the three scrimmages and media day thing like I do every year.
I listen to a lot of sports talk radio in my spare time and many parents are legitimately afraid of the fear of concussions. They've become very apprehensive about their sons playing football. Between the concussions and the Penn State scandal, football has been taking more punches than a heavy bag in a boxing gym. Look, all sports have a dirty underside to them that people don't see or are aware of. Football happens to be the sport with the most players on a roster. The popularity of the game puts it out in the forefront. I could bring up a rap sheet on every sport, but now is not the time.
You want to know how big high school football is in Texas? In the Dallas suburb of Allen they built a 60 million dollar football stadium a part of a 120 million dollar bond issue. 18 thousand seats, artificial turf, a 75 by 45 ft high def video scoreboard, 3 tier press box, and luxury boxes. There are some Division II, III, and 1AA colleges and universities who are jealous of that school. To top it off, that facility is only the 5th largest high school stadium in the state.
No more football talk, at least for this week. On to other things.
Waiting for the special padding to come in so the new carpet can finally get installed and I have my bedroom looking like a bedroom again. All the furniture is out of the room. The painting is done and looks real good. Can't wait to hang my lighted "On Air" sign on one of the walls.
Trying to explain my garden to people is like trying to explain the works of famed artist Jackson Pollack. Honestly, I do grow normal things. I have red tomatoes and green jalapeno peppers growing. I'm also growing yellow and speckled tomatoes. Green beans come in yellow and purple as well as green. Zucchini are striped or a lighter shade of green rather than the traditional dark green ones you see at the farmers market or store. Eggplant are purple with white streaks on them (like if Jackson Pollack splashed paint on them) and the bell peppers are green right now, but will supposedly change color to orange or some other color according to the seed packet. My potatoes are grown in planter bags on the patio next to the eggplant and peppers. I'm tried carrots this year and the seed pack I planted had yellow, red, purple and white carrots along with the traditional orange ones.
So Friday morning before I headed to the radio ranch at 238 Bay Road, I had thought I shut off my laptop. Turns out I hadn't. Go to turn it on Saturday night, and it wasn't going on. The classic Fred G Sanford, "Elizabeth, I can feel it. It's the big one coming on" heart attack almost happened. Luckily for me, the battery just needing to be re-charged and not the power source having to be replaced. We're so dependent on our personal electronic devices. For most of my friends it's their cell phone or I-pad/kindle/blackberry thing. Me, its my Compaq Presario A900 wide screen laptop. It's become like one my close friends or another cousin.
This weeks sign of the apocalypse: A big screen version of the TV Series "ALF" might be in the works.
I'm reading Mike Lupica's column in the New York Daily News like I do every Sunday morning and this week he wishes Bill Goldman a Happy Birthday. I would never have known or thought that the same guy who wrote, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" also wrote "The Princess Bride."
Are the Summer Olympics over yet?...Leccese out.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Getting caught up on a few things
Hi there. I know, I know. I've been slacking when it comes to new entries. Been a slow summer. Alright to catch you up on everything, here's what's been going down with yours truly.
The garden is looking good. Green bean, zucchini, and yellow squash harvest has been plentiful so far. Yellow cherry tomatoes also being harvested and red tomatoes are starting to turn color and ripen. The patio quartet of potatoes, peppers, eggplant, and lettuce are looking good; and I should be harvesting a variety of different colored carrots in about a month.
Bedroom renovation has begun and it looks like a war zone. The room has been painted and now just waiting for the carpet to be installed. Slumming in it in the guest bedroom for now.
And finally, somehow a stray mother cat and her two kittens have decided to adopt my family. They were squatting underneath the cover of my barbecue grill at first but have moved to a better location that makes me a lot happier. Man or beast, don't even think about going near or messing with my Char-Broil Pro-model Grill. That is a capital offense with grave consequences.
Here's the big difference between cats and dogs. People adopt dogs and the dogs accept that fact. Cats on the other hand, its the other way around. They adopt people and you accept that fact. I have no desire to be a pet owner and if I did, I would go buy a rabbit hutch from Gardentime and then find a bunny rancher and pick out a male New Zealand Satin like the one I had as a kid.
I'm sorry but I'm more of a Winter Olympics fan than a Summer Games one. Not into track and field, gymnastics, swimming and some of the other sports. The only two I care about are Team Handball and Field Hockey. Besides the Winter Games have cooler events. Ice Hockey, the sledding events, skiing, biathlon, and my favorite...curling.
Who would have thought the big scandal at this years games would be badminton players taking the gas pipe in matches so they would go into the losers bracket for a better chance at winning a medal. We're talking about a game played in your backyard. If we're playing barbecue and picnic games at the next summer games in Brazil in 2016, I proposed that jarts and bocce be included as Olympic events.
22 total medals and 18 of them gold. Michael Phelps, you are indeed the man in and out of the pool.
I liked it better when the swimsuits were less aerodynamic and less water resistant. I want to see suits that have a color other than black. Kind of boring if you ask me.
More and more often when I'm in my office before I go on the air at 2pm, I tune into Dennis Miller on WWSC. He's one funny cat and he doesn't sound like a bitter, racist, cry baby when he talks conservative politics unlike Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage.
Rex Ryan used restraint when President Obama chimed in on the Jets qb controversy. Did someone spike his chocolate pudding at Cortland?
Eli Manning must love the fact that everybody is talking about Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow even though he has led the Giants to 2 Superbowl wins in the past 4 years and was the MVP in both of them. Just go about your business getting ready for the season under the radar. Come on Eli, don't you also know that you're also only the third best qb in your division behind Tony Romo and Robert Griffin III?
Jerry Jones, would you please just shut up?
Now for a public service announcement. Friends don't let friends do the dance listening to the Neon Trees song, "Everybody Talks" while driving. Keep your hands on the wheel.
I don't like being complimented. It embarrasses the hell out of me. I found that out not once but twice in the last week and my mom pointed it out to me.
9 more days til the start of high school football practice.
Finally, if you get the chance, remember to either stop on by the radio station at 238 Bay Road, pick up an entry form, raise some money and be a part of the annual Go-Cart race on August 14th. Most fun thing we do and it helps 6 worthy charities. If you don't want to drive in the race, make a donation to someone you know who is or help Dan, Pete, or Mike with a donation...Leccese out.
The garden is looking good. Green bean, zucchini, and yellow squash harvest has been plentiful so far. Yellow cherry tomatoes also being harvested and red tomatoes are starting to turn color and ripen. The patio quartet of potatoes, peppers, eggplant, and lettuce are looking good; and I should be harvesting a variety of different colored carrots in about a month.
Bedroom renovation has begun and it looks like a war zone. The room has been painted and now just waiting for the carpet to be installed. Slumming in it in the guest bedroom for now.
And finally, somehow a stray mother cat and her two kittens have decided to adopt my family. They were squatting underneath the cover of my barbecue grill at first but have moved to a better location that makes me a lot happier. Man or beast, don't even think about going near or messing with my Char-Broil Pro-model Grill. That is a capital offense with grave consequences.
Here's the big difference between cats and dogs. People adopt dogs and the dogs accept that fact. Cats on the other hand, its the other way around. They adopt people and you accept that fact. I have no desire to be a pet owner and if I did, I would go buy a rabbit hutch from Gardentime and then find a bunny rancher and pick out a male New Zealand Satin like the one I had as a kid.
I'm sorry but I'm more of a Winter Olympics fan than a Summer Games one. Not into track and field, gymnastics, swimming and some of the other sports. The only two I care about are Team Handball and Field Hockey. Besides the Winter Games have cooler events. Ice Hockey, the sledding events, skiing, biathlon, and my favorite...curling.
Who would have thought the big scandal at this years games would be badminton players taking the gas pipe in matches so they would go into the losers bracket for a better chance at winning a medal. We're talking about a game played in your backyard. If we're playing barbecue and picnic games at the next summer games in Brazil in 2016, I proposed that jarts and bocce be included as Olympic events.
22 total medals and 18 of them gold. Michael Phelps, you are indeed the man in and out of the pool.
I liked it better when the swimsuits were less aerodynamic and less water resistant. I want to see suits that have a color other than black. Kind of boring if you ask me.
More and more often when I'm in my office before I go on the air at 2pm, I tune into Dennis Miller on WWSC. He's one funny cat and he doesn't sound like a bitter, racist, cry baby when he talks conservative politics unlike Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage.
Rex Ryan used restraint when President Obama chimed in on the Jets qb controversy. Did someone spike his chocolate pudding at Cortland?
Eli Manning must love the fact that everybody is talking about Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow even though he has led the Giants to 2 Superbowl wins in the past 4 years and was the MVP in both of them. Just go about your business getting ready for the season under the radar. Come on Eli, don't you also know that you're also only the third best qb in your division behind Tony Romo and Robert Griffin III?
Jerry Jones, would you please just shut up?
Now for a public service announcement. Friends don't let friends do the dance listening to the Neon Trees song, "Everybody Talks" while driving. Keep your hands on the wheel.
I don't like being complimented. It embarrasses the hell out of me. I found that out not once but twice in the last week and my mom pointed it out to me.
9 more days til the start of high school football practice.
Finally, if you get the chance, remember to either stop on by the radio station at 238 Bay Road, pick up an entry form, raise some money and be a part of the annual Go-Cart race on August 14th. Most fun thing we do and it helps 6 worthy charities. If you don't want to drive in the race, make a donation to someone you know who is or help Dan, Pete, or Mike with a donation...Leccese out.
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