Baseball

I used to play baseball as a kid. I think my dad always thought one of his boys would end up playing for the NY Yankees someday. Man, I wish it was me. I digress. I friggin love Yankees baseball. They have been my team since the 1970's when I was born. Not really, I was born in the late 60's! I remember Lou Pinella, Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson, Reggie, Goose Gossage, Chris Chambliss and so on and so on...

Nowadays, nobody can afford to attend a Yankees game. Since that is the case, I watch them on YES network as much as possible. The next best thing is to attend a minor league game at the Syracuse Chiefs. Believe it or not, this is usually a family trip for us. My wife and daughter love the ball park! As soon as we arrive, two large drafts for J and I. Alyse usually gets some cotton candy or ice cream. We went last week and they had some new additions to the menu this year. Alyse actually had a fried dough with the powdered sugar all over it! I had peanuts and a beer.

The Chiefs usually suck. I think I could take over at 2nd base and show them how to play the game. I bet I could hit the ball out of the park. I bet I could hit it over a mountain. If only coach would have put me in! Enough Uncle Rico!
Golf is in swing now. If only the weather would relax a bit. I swear I haven't golfed once without the jet stream on the course. I'm hoping tomorrow is better as I'm in for 36 holes. 18 starting at 7am and another 18 at 12:30. I have a breakfast tournament on Sunday too so I'm hoping my game will show up soon! I played in a stag day tourney last week and it was good until the last drunken hole where we effed it up and ended up in fourth, outside the $$$$. We still got a skin which paid our skins fee. Good news is I won $20 in pro shop credit by hitting the green on a 175 yard par 3 shot. At least I won something!