Googling God: The Baseball Tour
For the next few days, I’ll be travelling with my two college pals, Kevin Cryan and Victor Mendoza, two four baseball stadiums–a brief respite from work. This was Marion’s present…
The Need for Sabbath
The NY Times reports today that clergy are burning themselves out. Duh, you’re not exactly breaking a story there. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few…
Steinbrenner: He Could Never Be Happy
As many of you know, I covered the Yankees home games for a number of years as a locker room reporter for a few radio outlets. While I got to…
I’m on the Olympic Prayer Team
I was asked to do the invocation at the opening ceremony of the Empire State Games, a Olympic-style event for Athletes from NY State. I remember going to these once…
Bob Sheppard’s Love
A final word on Bob Sheppard, the Yankee Stadium announcer who died last week. Many did not know much about Bob Sheppard but we do know that he was married…
More On Bob Sheppard
A friend reminded me of the time I requested an interview with Bob and he called me back and left the message on the voicemail–which I somehow accidentally deleted one…
The Voice of God…Stilled
Bob Sheppard the great Yankee public address announcer has died at the reported age of 99 after a full life filled with much joy. I place a picture of his…
Memories of a Father
My good friend Shannon Shark who runs the Mets Police blog wrote this touching story on Father’s Day a few years back. I thought it would be good to post…
Breaking: Lawrence Taylor Arrested for Rape of Minor
Since we’ve talked about priests who have sexually abused minors here, I think it’s only fair to discuss this when it happens to a major sports celebrity as well. ESPN…
Should Security Guards Use Tazers?
Shannon Shark over at the Mets Police finds this offensive and I agree. While the fan as Shannon states is a knucklehead, do we ever talk about tazers as being…