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What you'll find at the bottom of the exit ramp. At least that sounds good.

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Feel free to subtitle this "At Least You Tried." But it represents so much more.

Oh, Christmas Tree

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There are no hidden messages in here. OK, maybe a little backward masking, but that's about it.

Catching Up

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Back To School

This happened quickly. A look at my life a few weeks back revealed that some things needed to change. In short, I needed to work more. To that end, I’ve often been told that I should become a substitute teacher. Once, briefly, many years ago, I played with the idea of becoming a substitute in Mahopac. There was mutual interest and, for some reason, it never came to be. This time, only a few weeks…

Back To School

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A gift from a friend sparked this. We'll worry about casting later.

Mr. Spielberg, Here's the Story

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Behind the face are the tears of the clown.

On Grief

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To better days and cooler nights.

What I Did On My Summer (Non) Vacation

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I promised I wouldn't start a blog and have it end quickly. So there's that.

Nineteen Years

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"No" Way

"No" Way

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I tried to talk about this, both here and on the show. So far, it hasn't been very successful. Please don't tell me "stay off social media" or whatever. It's part of my job and not helpful. Regardless, here's the long story of the last several months.

OK. Here.

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As ROBCAST once told you: it's SPORTS and it should be FUN. Happy Opening Day tomorrow. Also, for Kevin Halpenny, I gave him my baseball scorecard tonight and he said I was FACILITATING the broadcast AMBITIONS and EXPLOITS of others. #parody #RepBX #OpeningDay

Baseball '25

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February Made Me Shiver

The face of 2,000 games with a voice that is hanging on by a thread The second month of 2025 has nearly passed by completely and I haven’t written. I don’t want you to forget about me! In truth, my sojourn away from the blog has been emblematic of my needing a break more than I realized. The past few months — if I can grab my seat on Oprah’s couch — haven’t been easy. I mean, I’m still here and…

February Made Me Shiver

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It's Cold and People Are Hot

You can just keep scrolling. Honestly.

  This is warm compared to this morning It was six degrees this morning outside my window. Yikes. I’m at work now, but have a few minutes to gather my thoughts and try to present them in a way that will be enlightening, charming, and oh whatever. I see the world is handling things juuuusst fiiiinnne this week. No, I can not type those words with a straight face. The behavior of this country is…

It's Cold and People Are Hot

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Peace Out, 24

To New Beginnings.

I did more game broadcasts this year than I’ve ever done in a year before. I’m very proud of that but I’ve declined to say how many the number is because I don’t think it makes any difference. I assembled a highlight reel that has its moments but given I’m my worst judge, I’ll say nothing further. Plus, more to the point, it’s about quality, not quantity. And, beyond that, there’s always a need…

Peace Out, 24

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Wonderful Christmastime

And to all a good night. #ChristmasEve #MerryChristmas

Greetings, friends. We send you our love and best wishes on this Christmas Eve. Sean and I again did our low-key evening of food and movies. I also went to five grocery stores today to look for something but that’s not relevant to this story. Our movies this year were Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Elf. Despite our running joke, we did not start watching American Psycho every year on…

Wonderful Christmastime

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My Thankful Day

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. This was mine.

Two pods and a lot of rain It’s been a while. A little over a month ago, I stopped the madness of posting every day as I headed to San Francisco for a conference. The most recent post came after I returned from California. Then? I stopped. Oh, I thought about writing it but I gave myself a break. November tends to be a busy month of work and I was somewhat occupied with another conference, a few…

My Thankful Day

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Back From the Bay Break

I said I wasn't done writing and I'm a man of my word. #Project365

The view at lunch No, I wasn’t tempted. I took three full days off from writing here. Yes, I went to San Francisco but, in reality, I made my decision to take a break long before the plans for this trip were firm. So I did a 64-hour whirlwind trip to California that included an Irish Coffee at The Buena Vista with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, visited the three sea lions who elected to be…

Back From the Bay Break

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For Lou

From Greenwich, for now, so long, everyone, and thank you. #Project365 #Fin

Lou Gehrig, ca. 1925 (Charles M. Conlon / National Baseball Hall of Fame Library) Lou Gehrig knew. It was Sunday, Apr 30, 1939 at Yankee Stadium. Lou, a noted slow starter, was off to a particularly bad beginning. He was hitting just .143 as that Sunday ended in New York. He had only four hits in 28 at-bats. Of note, he had no extra base hits and there was no pop as bat hit ball. No power.…

For Lou