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Favorite Yankees

October 15, 2012 in Sports, Yankees

The local pizza place, Riva’s, asked on Facebook for two guess of Yankee players they are thinking of from the past 30 years.  No brainer for me…AndyPettitte and Paul O’Neill, two of the grittiest, hardest playing Yankees around.  This is the only picture I could find with both of them together. On another note, the Pumpkin Run was a lot of fun.  Took 5th in age group, 30th overall out of 300 plus runners on a gorgeous cool fall morning.  My time of 22:44 was the best of this year.  You know, if you don’t pressure yourself and just go out and have a good time, you probably will do!  Next up is the Bob Ivory at the end of this month but there is a chance I might do something before that.  I just haven’t decided yet. Oh one more thing…I have decided that I am going to do
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Hot and dewy!

July 20, 2011 in Checkers AC, Running, Sports

Hot and humid? Dread that stickiness? Did you know that when it rains, that is 100% humidity and most of us runners would welcome a nice cool rainstorm to work out in. A few years ago when Bob Carroll was the Checkers AC coach, he used to tell us to be careful when the dewpoint was over 60. In fact, I had to ask for a clarification and his response was…“Once you get over 60. If the dew point was over 65 I wouldn’t let Becky race.” Ok, so what is the deal with dew-point? Why that and not humidity. Dew-point is the temperature of air which is needed for condensation or dew (at that particular temperature). If you take a glass of ice water and it develops condensation on the glass surface, the air on the glass has condensed to its dew-point and created dew. Dew-point actually measures how
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George Steinbrenner 1930 – 2010

July 14, 2010 in Sports, Yankees

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing…Breathing first, winning next.” “Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.” “I’m really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.” “I don’t have heart attacks, “I give them.” Seven World Series championships, 11 American League pennants and 16 AL East titles… Thanks for the memories!

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Bobby Murcer 1946 – 2008

July 13, 2008 in Sports

Bobby Murcer was one of my father’s favorite Yankees.

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Activation T -6 and other ramblings

February 9, 2008 in Cochlear Implants, Running, Sports

With activation of my left ear six days away, I am really excited and looking forward to it. Right now, I am struggling with a stubborn camcorder I haven’t used in like 3 years. Apparently, there is a tape stuck inside…or rather, maybe it decided to become part of the inside. Plan “B” is ready to go if I can’t get the tape out…borrow son Mike’s friend Christian’s camcorder. Meanwhile, as much as I am anxious to go “stereo”, I really wonder what it’s going to be like for the brain to manage double the load and what it’s like to hear again through what I considered my better ear. Although I am not going to get my hopes up high, I do hope to have improved speech comprehension and discrimination. Meanwhile, other newsworthy items… Today, I decided to forgo the Lockport Y10 race. So to all of my female
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Super Bowl prediction

February 3, 2008 in Sports

My home may be in Buffalo the land of the Bills But my heart is in those mighty titans of New York…the GIANTS! Today with my proud LT t-shirt, I am heading over to a friend of my son’s to watch the big game. And yes Mr. Brady…the Patriots are going to score only 17 points…. the final score – Giants 31, Patriots 17

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