From The Sports Desk

[bounty]

holy cow, I don't think ive thought about lavoris in years!

I think a couple markers would be relatively easy to check from a correlation perspective---one would be sales of bicycles and another would be the amount of racing licenses.

[hellsapoppin]

i had lots of athletes in my classes over my years there, but oddly enough, no hockey players, so i didn't know any of the players or coaches and i don't think i went to a game.

youre in Minnesota poppin? one of my hockey memories was just simply going back and forth to campus in the winter time and one of the parks i went by had 2-3 rinks and it seems there were pick up games galore.

meanwhile, i just stumbled across this that i'll look forward to checking out later:

https://pluto.tv/en/search/details/s...77ead/season/1

I watched that series when it was on back in the day ~ outstanding programming

[bounty]

first time ive seen it. haven't watched anything yet, but hopefully I will soon.

in principal its reminding me of the espn 50 greatest athletes of the century countdown and documentaries they made in 1999.

I love the secretariat one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtuEoiYiqZw

I have a vague memory of my writing espn complaining that the list over represented athletes from the big four sports, plus golf, and that they had done a disservice to greg lemond, michelle kwan, dan gable and john smith.

[Sancho]

This ain't sports writing, but I just gotta say - Man! The Dodgers are spending a ton 'O coin this preseason.

[bounty]

does it help if I say I liked vin scully, read a sandy Koufax biography, (maybe a don Drysdale one?) a couple of Jackie Robinsons, praying for gil hodges, the boys of summer and that I used to date a girl who had family in vero beach?

and then of course there is benny, the jet, rodriguez!

[Sancho]

Dem Bums!

[hellsapoppin]

Dem Bums!

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY {what we used to call God's Country}. Am old enuff to remember how PO'd so many folks were over the loss of our Bums to LA. For decades many people blamed Walter O'Malley but historical revisionists now put the blame on dirty dealing real estate developer/planner Robert Moses. Moses was more corrupt and profited far more than Tammany Hall ever did. But he did so "legally" and got away with it.

[Sancho]

Yup. And history repeats. It’s not a perfect correlation but, like the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Oakland A’s have stadium problems. So … Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire:

I like this version: The Reverend Horton Heat, Viva Las Vegas:

https://youtu.be/58LGAl88gOk?si=BwY2sXy3pgnZIWk-

I’m sure you guys have read Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer. Great sports book, in my humble opinion. I had to go to Flatbush and visit the old site of Ebbets Field after reading it. I like to do that sort of thing. After reading Killer Angels I went to Gettysburg, PA. I’m still trying to figure out how to get to Nantucket to visit the whaling museum.

Hey, speaking of Flatbush, not long after the movie My Cousin Vinnie came out I was working a NYT crossword puzzle and this four-letter clue came up: Flatbush Juvenile… ans: YUTE.

Herman Munster — The two what? … What was that word?
Joe Pesci — Uhh, what word?
Herman — Two what?
Joe — What?

https://youtu.be/ThEf_88FFs4?si=BFvS6cvolErnDvWH

It’s almost painful watching Joe Pesci try to pronounce “Youths.”

[hellsapoppin]

Sancho,

It’s almost painful watching Joe Pesci try to pronounce “Youths.”

The following is a true story:

Growing up in Brooklyn way back in the 1960s, I was in the 6th grade and the teacher tried to get us to pronounce month(s) and myth(s). Almost none of us could do it properly. We kept saying muntz and mitz. I tried to alter it by saying mumfs and mifs. The teacher would call on someone and would get angry because the kids couldn't say it right. Thankfully, she did not call on me. What a relief it was when she finally stopped.

Fast forward several decades later after I moved to the Midwest. Now late in life I finally learned to pronounce months and myths properly. Jeepers. Took almost forever for me to learn.

[Sancho]

Haha. Good story.

Although it's been fading my entire adult life, I'm saddled a regional accent as well, only from a little further down the Eastern Seaboard than yours, hellsapoppin. But my wife is from California, so the first time I took her back home to South Carolina, I had to act as interpreter. The next-door neighbor back there was a sweet old lady named Reetha, and Reetha had a very thick southern accent. Anyway Reetha could understand my new wife just fine because she sounded "jess like they do on the TV." But my wife couldn't make heads or tails out of what Reetha was saying. And Reetha was going a mile a minute because she was excited to meet her. Anyway it was hilarious, the wife was in auto-nod mode, with smile pasted on her face, faking comprehension. Then every once in while Reetha would stop, signaling a response was needed, and the wife would look at me for help:

Sancho — She says she likes your dress.
Wife — Oh thank you. I like your dress too, Reetha.
Reetha — unintelligible, unintelligible, unintelligible...
Sancho — She says she likes your hair
Wife — Oh thank you. I like your hair too, Reetha.
And so it went

[bounty]

Sancho, if it ever looks like you'll make it to Nantucket, and are interested, give me as much heads-up as you can. I think I mentioned this in your moby thread, one of my closest friends from undergrad days is from there, and still lives there. I could make an effort to get you two connected.

[Sancho]

Oh man, that’d be awesome. Thanks, bounty. Although who knows if I can ever make it there. Nantucket isn’t really on the way to anywhere, and once you get there, to get back, you gotta go were you already been. I would like to visit it though. And Sancho’s old lady would too. It’s nice to know we’ve got a local contact.

[bounty]

its not so far away that if you are in boston for a length of time that you couldn't make a three-ish day detour, or to tie it into a visit to cape cod.

its funny---I was backpacking around Europe and I ran into all sorts of fellow adventurers who told me they were planning on going to Nantucket, and id give them her name and address and apparently more than one of them showed up at her house looking for a place to pitch their tent.

[Sancho]

I’ll manage to get there one of these days. Most of my travel is work related, hence I’m at their beck and call and I don’t usually have that much time for a side trip. Also I’m not set up genetically to travel on my own nickel. Boston was fun last month. We went Seattle to Boston and laid over for 24 hours. Then Boston - Lisbon, 24 hours, Lisbon - Boston 24 hours, then back home. Good trip.

[bounty]

maybe someday the red sox and mariners will play for the al championship and you'll get tickets.