K-Rod!

Happy days for hot stove baseball Met's fans. Finally the Met's get a real closer in the prime of his career for a reasonable amount of years and don't over pay (by baseball standards). I am very pumped, the Met's lost over 13 games last year when having a lead going into the 9th inning. Give K-Rod even 9 of those games and the Met's are in the playoffs. I am very, very excited for pitchers and catchers to report and get 2009 on it's way.

LAST CHILD - Next year 'teenage wasteland'!

They call them the 'sexy six', Miles and his 5 close friends celebrated his 12th birthday on Friday November 21st (his bd is the 22nd). They came over around 5PM and played board games - mostly twister, went out into the cold night for man hunt (some crazy game of tag in the pitch black) and then we had pizza and watched Ironman on the big screen. When I say big screen I mean it. I hang a king size sheet in my living room and set up my Mac to a high end projector plugged into the stereo system. It is a great way to watch a film. They had cupcakes, popcorn and candy and later watched AppleTV (mostly YouTube into 3AM). He had a blast and I must say the kids are great bunch; fairly polite and most of all they seem to really care about each other. I had a martini or two:) on the couch as I watched the movie with the boys and really thought about how great this was - watching my kids grow up is amazing. Being happy from their happiness! Next year – he joins his sister as a teenager – and you know what that means? R rated movies;)

Historic Week!

I shed many tears Tuesday night watching the United States elect it's first Afro-American president. I can not remember any time in my life I felt so passionate and proud of who we elected. I am always hyper sensitive to how the world looks at us and how our leaders reflect my sentiments. I find it unbelievable that other countries sometimes have a better sense of who is the right choice then we do for ourselves. In any case, Obama is a polished speaker, incredibly smart and his values reflect how I would want a foreigner to view us. Will he be a good president? Time will tell, but for sure he will put face on our postage stamp that says we can play in the sandbox with others (and don't under estimate public relations marketing).

I am surprised that some people I know didn't feel the same way I did. I understand voting for another candidate, but this is so much more. I know that if a republican minority candidate (a Powell like person) or a smart poised woman won, I would feel so proud of my country. I suppose most of the people I have come in contact with that felt distrusting or had misgivings about Obama would be the same people that were anti The Beatles and rock n' roll revolution. They look at the cover and rarely read the book!

Dippikill - 10 Years Gone!

For the last 10 years my friend Alan and all our kids have headed to the Adirondacks to SUNY Albany's camp Dippikill (Alan's best friend Matt has joined for 5+). This year was incredible, my perfect therapy session. We played, drank, listened to great tunes and talked politics. It is a magical place and holds memories for a lifetime.

Happy that the 2008 season is over...

It was not a fun season being a NY Mets fan; lots of injuries, too many blown games and another terrible ending. Game 158 was so painful and symbolic of what this team was all about, I had began my transformation into 'Winter Guy'; now it's offical.  See you in the spring!

Top 5 worst losses ever.

September 24, 2008 will go down as one of the worst choke jobs of a NY sports team in history (regular season). I am stunned, speechless, pained, upset, frantic and sick from what I witnessed watching the NY Mets lose to the Chicago Cubs. Never have a seen a team year after year get tight and not be able to come through. I really don't know if this franchise will ever recover from such a horrible game. The bright side is I can start to focus on things that really matter - like how sad the state of our country is. Oh great - there is something to cheer me up:(

Goodbye Shea! Goodbye Mets?

One of my closest friends has taken me and few of his friends to a Diamond Suite at Shea the last couple of years. I was able to get there extra early on Monday (9/22) and  walk around to soak in my final memories of the stadium. I captured many photos which you can see in a slide show to music at: http://www.kennifs.com/Downloads/GoodByeShea_Slideshow_web.mov 

It was a good fun until the Met's rookie pitcher gave up a grand slam to the Cub's pitcher. The Mets got tight and of course lost another September game. 

Groundhog Month!

I am not sure I can take another repeat performance of the NY Mets throwing away their chances to make the post season. It is not so much that they lose; they self destruct. It is so painful to wait for them to blow the game. I am not sure which is worse - the Mets blowing every chance to win a game and perhaps a championship or me thinking they might not cough it up. I understand that this is part of being a Mets fan (30+ years should make me used to it), but every few years it would be so great if they could deliver. I am not greedy at all, a post season appearance every few years and a championship every 15 to 20 would be great. Please, just please stop the choking - I can't take it anymore.