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The Best Father’s Day Ever
Pitching Game Two In Style…. Okay! It’s Father’s Day once again and we at PhilYouIn have counted and recounted your votes and have finally arrived at the third annual Best Father’s Day blog winner! Enjoy! (The vote was close. Honorable mention to the unforgettable runner up, “Carpet,” about the time Mike gave me a carpeted Continue reading
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A Different Game
I was a big Mets fan growing up. I always hated hearing from old guys about how great baseball used to be in the ‘good old days.’ How baseball just was not good anymore. Well. One thing I knew back then was that when I grew up (which seemed inconceivable at the time), I would Continue reading
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Kong
One of the first deals under the Mets’ Fred Wilpon regime was to reacquire Dave “King Kong” Kingman in 1981. I suppose they wanted to add some pop to their lineup, and Kingman, a power hitter, was certainly capable of doing just that. At least 10% of the time. Kingman was a surly guy, as Continue reading
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The Agony and the Thrill (with epilogue)
I have been to many notable Mets games over the past half century. Ditched school one Passover afternoon to go to Shea and watch Tom Seaver strike out 19 Padres. Sat in section two of the upper deck in 1973 for the Blessed Bounce game (Cleon to Garrett to Hodges). Was seated right above the Continue reading
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Got Women’s Sports?
When I was growing up in the Sixties, it was generally assumed that boys were smarter, and better, than girls. That girls were inherently inferior beings. Having been raised by a bad-ass single Mom, I was always somewhat skeptical of the notion. More than a half century later, not much has changed, even when it Continue reading
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