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Aug 14, 2007 16:00:24 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 16:00:24 GMT -5
R.I.P. Scooter.
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Aug 14, 2007 16:06:16 GMT -5
Post by icelemt38 on Aug 14, 2007 16:06:16 GMT -5
*Hugs*
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Aug 14, 2007 17:12:41 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 17:12:41 GMT -5
I'm not really all that sad, I didn't even know the guy. He was just a great old yankee player/broadcaster, [[Phil Rizzuto]] for those who don't know. Best Yankees shortstop b.j. (before Jeter). Although, watching Yankees games growing up, I did know what he had for lunch every day, because he'd spend 20 minutes discussing it on air instead of doing the actual play-by-play. At least the Yankees are at home, so they can do something special tonight to honor him.
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Aug 14, 2007 17:20:37 GMT -5
Post by ladybert on Aug 14, 2007 17:20:37 GMT -5
When I heard (they broke into regular programming with a news alert), I thought of you. BTW, have you ever clarified in all your blog incarnations why you LOOOOVE the Yankees, since so much of your family is from Bahston? Or did I just answer that question- LOL.
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Aug 14, 2007 17:39:13 GMT -5
Post by icelemt38 on Aug 14, 2007 17:39:13 GMT -5
Now I understand, like my feeling when Bill Walsh died. Totally different sport but still.
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Aug 14, 2007 18:01:25 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 18:01:25 GMT -5
When I heard (they broke into regular programming with a news alert), I thought of you. BTW, have you ever clarified in all your blog incarnations why you LOOOOVE the Yankees, since so much of your family is from Bahston? Or did I just answer that question- LOL. Yikes, you really want to know? The short version: I'm from NJ/NY. Not Bahstin. I love Boston though. Second only to NYC for me. Boston is a great city if you know where to go. And the really good thing is, their public transportation is really easy to navigate. Plus, I love the Swan boats in the Boston Public Garden and the Duck boats even if you'd never get me on them...unless it was with Mindi and we just happened to run into Huu. The long version: My paternal grandparents were both from the Boston area, they moved to Philly, and that's where my dad was from. When he was a kid, they moved to New Jersey. My maternal grandmother was born in Western Massachusetts, but when she was young, moved to Brookline, which is outside of Boston. My maternal grandfather was the only one actually born in Boston proper though, a JP (Jamaica Plain) boy of German immigrants, that (surprise, surprise, cause it's right there) went to Northeastern. They met while both were working for Lever Brothers, married and moved to Atlanta, where my mother was born. When she was 12, they moved to Scarsdale, New York, since my grandfather had been transferred to Level Brothers' NYC office. My mother was working in New Jersey and met my father in 1968, and a year later they eloped. My sister Suzanne came first, then me, then my younger sister, Deb. All born in Livingston, New Jersey. We moved to New York when I was 10, after my parents divorced. My father's family were all Yankees fans. So, as a kid, my dad watched Yankees games and I did too. Everyone in my mother's family is a massive baseball fan, or really, just rabid sports fans in general, except my older sister, who is too weird to even explain. My maternal great-grandfather was offered a contract by the Boston Americans (the Red Sox) but his parents wouldn't let him sign it, because according to them "baseball players are bums". So he became an accountant. My mother's cousin Bill was a pitcher, and he was scouted by the Yankees...but he turned down their minor league contract offer to go to college. Idiot. Had he signed and made it to the club, he would have been playing with those very same 1977 Yankees The Bronx Is Burning is about. Ugh. It annoys me to even think about it. He became an engineer. He worked for Texas Instruments, but I still have no idea what he actually did. My mother's family were Red Sox & Braves fans (the MA contingent, as the Braves started in Boston, but when they left for Milwaukee, they all became Sawx fans) and when my grandparents came to New York, my grandmother was a Giants fan, then a Mets fan, and my grandfather was just a baseball fan, he didn't care, as long as it was baseball. We moved in with my grandparents for a time after my parents divorce, and my grandmother REFUSED to allow the Yankees on her television, she hated them, unless there was no Mets game, and my grandfather was jonesing for baseball. He had to watch sports of some kind. He watched early ESPN, which showed stuff that you wouldn't even technically call a sport. So I became a Mets fan by default. Didn't matter, it was 1982, the Yankees had just lost the WS the year before and the Mets were awful (having been managed in 1981 by Joe Torre). So they both sucked. Then the Mets got pretty good and the Yanks were horrible, but I still couldn't totally be a Mets fan, even though I went to Shea a lot more than Yankee Stadium at that point. So I followed both teams. Then the Mets spent the next few years after 1986 destroying the good team they had, and when they traded David Cone and that was it for me, I couldn't stand them after that. So I went back to being a devoted Yankee fan 100%. That was in 1992. There you go. You did ask...
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Aug 14, 2007 18:12:25 GMT -5
Post by mfphila on Aug 14, 2007 18:12:25 GMT -5
Oh c'mon you love those narrated group tours. Do they have the Duck in NYC? I bet we could find Mr Huu on it one day. *makes note to take you on the Phila. Duck* I've never been to Boston. My cousin was there for 4 years of college and kept saying I was going to visit it but never made it. He loved it there. The owner of my company is Phil Rizzuto's cousin, Lee.
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Aug 14, 2007 18:17:08 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 18:17:08 GMT -5
Oh c'mon you love those narrated group tours. Do they have the Duck in NYC? I bet we could find Mr Huu on it one day. *makes note to take you on the Phila. Duck* I've never been to Boston. My cousin was there for 4 years of college and kept saying I was going to visit it but never made it. He loved it there. The owner of my company is Phil Rizzuto's cousin, Lee. I like those tours now...(for those who don't know, and doubt that's any of you, Mindi and I went on a Sydney bus tour with this really cheesy recorded narration, and we got off at Bondi Beach. Then we walked on this really cool walk to Bronte Beach and Hugh & Oscar were there. Somewhere I have a two-second, extremely shaky video of Hugh walking up the street.) Ah, well, you'll have to come to Boston with me and we'll go to Jillian's. Except if there's any Red Sox there, I will NOT be happy.
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Aug 14, 2007 18:21:21 GMT -5
Post by mfphila on Aug 14, 2007 18:21:21 GMT -5
We had a Jillians here, it closed and became a Dave and Busters, because every city needs 2 of those.
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Aug 14, 2007 18:28:24 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 18:28:24 GMT -5
We had a Jillians here, it closed and became a Dave and Busters, because every city needs 2 of those. The last time I went anywhere near Jillian's, it was insane because supposedly Johnny Damon (that's what my cousin said, but another guy said it was Trot Nixon) or somebody was in there...and my sister and I refused to go inside anyway. That's how much we hate the Red Sox. So we went over to Fenway Park so I could spit at it, and then we went into The Boston Beerworks instead. Of course, now he's a Yankee.
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Aug 14, 2007 18:34:40 GMT -5
Post by mfphila on Aug 14, 2007 18:34:40 GMT -5
I wouldn't go anywhere near Chickies & Pete's ( a huge local bar/restaurant) during an Eagles game. If you like seafood...mussels, clams, crabs...we'll go there when you come here. I don't eat it, they also have great hot wings and crab fries.
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Aug 14, 2007 19:10:29 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 19:10:29 GMT -5
I wouldn't go anywhere near Chickies & Pete's ( a huge local bar/restaurant) during an Eagles game. If you like seafood...mussels, clams, crabs...we'll go there when you come here. I don't eat it, they also have great hot wings and crab fries. I am making you eat shrimp or something in Punta Cana. Unless you're allergic, you have no excuse.Forget that. We're just going to sit on the beach, eat tostones and drink pina coladas...
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Aug 14, 2007 19:21:08 GMT -5
Post by narrows101 on Aug 14, 2007 19:21:08 GMT -5
Kristin I think you came back to the Yanks about the same time I did - I LOOOVED them in the 1970s when they were winning (devastated when Thurman was killed), then after I got married since hubby isn't a sports fan I lost interest (they sucked in the 80s anyway). Then right around 1994 when there was nothing on TV I got sucked back into it - loved Paulie, Tino, Jeter - those 90s teams were great.
Boy I'll miss Scooter with his Holy Cows and leaving the ballgame early to go home over the George Washington Bridge because he was afraid of lightning! Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer were just as much a part of the 70s Yankees as the team. Gosh, can't believe it's 30 years already.
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Aug 14, 2007 19:28:59 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 19:28:59 GMT -5
Kristin I think you came back to the Yanks about the same time I did - I LOOOVED them in the 1970s when they were winning (devastated when Thurman was killed), then after I got married since hubby isn't a sports fan I lost interest (they sucked in the 80s anyway). Then right around 1994 when there was nothing on TV I got sucked back into it - loved Paulie, Tino, Jeter - those 90s teams were great. Boy I'll miss Scooter with his Holy Cows and leaving the ballgame early to go home over the George Washington Bridge because he was afraid of lightning! Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer were just as much a part of the 70s Yankees as the team. Gosh, can't believe it's 30 years already. I loved Thurman, but as a kid, I adored Reggie. I think it was because he was like A-rod, very flashy, and kids loved him, because they weren't old enough to know about or care about any trouble he caused. But my favorite, favorite was Gator. I loved Ron Guidry. Still do. We had a poster of the 1978 Yanks (that was an amazing season and the first one I really remember because they started off pretty badly, kinda like this season!) that we got at Burger King (I have no idea why I remember that) but it was on the wall and my older sister didn't like Thurman's moustache, so that's why she didn't like him. Then after he was killed, she felt guilty for always saying she didn't like him. Of course, she was 9 at the time.
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Aug 14, 2007 19:30:15 GMT -5
Post by mfphila on Aug 14, 2007 19:30:15 GMT -5
I wouldn't go anywhere near Chickies & Pete's ( a huge local bar/restaurant) during an Eagles game. If you like seafood...mussels, clams, crabs...we'll go there when you come here. I don't eat it, they also have great hot wings and crab fries. I am making you eat shrimp or something in Punta Cana. Unless you're allergic, you have no excuse.Forget that. We're just going to sit on the beach, eat tostones and drink pina coladas... I'll make you take a guided bus tour.
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Aug 14, 2007 19:34:03 GMT -5
Post by mfphila on Aug 14, 2007 19:34:03 GMT -5
Kristin I think you came back to the Yanks about the same time I did - I LOOOVED them in the 1970s when they were winning (devastated when Thurman was killed), then after I got married since hubby isn't a sports fan I lost interest (they sucked in the 80s anyway). Then right around 1994 when there was nothing on TV I got sucked back into it - loved Paulie, Tino, Jeter - those 90s teams were great. Boy I'll miss Scooter with his Holy Cows and leaving the ballgame early to go home over the George Washington Bridge because he was afraid of lightning! Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer were just as much a part of the 70s Yankees as the team. Gosh, can't believe it's 30 years already. I loved Thurman, but as a kid, I adored Reggie. I think it was because he was like A-rod, very flashy, and kids loved him, because they weren't old enough to know about or care about any trouble he caused. But my favorite, favorite was Gator. I loved Ron Guidry. Still do. We had a poster of the 1978 Yanks (that was an amazing season and the first one I really remember because they started off pretty badly, kinda like this season!) that we got at Burger King (I have no idea why I remember that) but it was on the wall and my older sister didn't like Thurman's moustache, so that's why she didn't like him. Then after he was killed, she felt guilty for always saying she didn't like him. Of course, she was 9 at the time. We have an old autographed team photo from one of the championship years. I'll have to check it out tomorrow at work.
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Aug 14, 2007 19:34:28 GMT -5
Post by Kristin on Aug 14, 2007 19:34:28 GMT -5
I am making you eat shrimp or something in Punta Cana. Unless you're allergic, you have no excuse.Forget that. We're just going to sit on the beach, eat tostones and drink pina coladas... I'll make you take a guided bus tour. All that will do is make LT & I tag-team murderesses, you know. 'Cause there ain't gonna be no Hugh to save you from certain death this time.
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Aug 14, 2007 19:38:30 GMT -5
Post by narrows101 on Aug 14, 2007 19:38:30 GMT -5
Kristin I think you came back to the Yanks about the same time I did - I LOOOVED them in the 1970s when they were winning (devastated when Thurman was killed), then after I got married since hubby isn't a sports fan I lost interest (they sucked in the 80s anyway). Then right around 1994 when there was nothing on TV I got sucked back into it - loved Paulie, Tino, Jeter - those 90s teams were great. Boy I'll miss Scooter with his Holy Cows and leaving the ballgame early to go home over the George Washington Bridge because he was afraid of lightning! Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer were just as much a part of the 70s Yankees as the team. Gosh, can't believe it's 30 years already. I loved Thurman, but as a kid, I adored Reggie. I think it was because he was like A-rod, very flashy, and kids loved him, because they weren't old enough to know about or care about any trouble he caused. But my favorite, favorite was Gator. I loved Ron Guidry. Still do. We had a poster of the 1978 Yanks (that was an amazing season and the first one I really remember because they started off pretty badly, kinda like this season!) that we got at Burger King (I have no idea why I remember that) but it was on the wall and my older sister didn't like Thurman's moustache, so that's why she didn't like him. Then after he was killed, she felt guilty for always saying she didn't like him. Of course, she was 9 at the time. Love Gator! I remember watching his record-breaking strikeout game in the days when there was only one TV in the house and I had to BEG my parents to put the game on (they weren't sports fans). Found out Thurman died when my future brother-in-law picked me and my sister up from the subway coming home from work. It was on the radio. My sister LOVED Thurman and she just started crying in the car. Have a secret about Graig Nettles - a friend of mine said she used to be a "groupie" that followed the Yanks around and let's just say Nettles wasn't very faithful to his wife..... Yes, the good old days of the Bronx Zoo...
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Aug 14, 2007 19:40:59 GMT -5
Post by mfphila on Aug 14, 2007 19:40:59 GMT -5
I'll make you take a guided bus tour. All that will do is make LT & I tag-team murderesses, you know. 'Cause there ain't gonna be no Hugh to save you from certain death this time. *glances to husband to save me*......something tells me you'd have a third. LOL
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Aug 15, 2007 2:59:32 GMT -5
Post by ladyt220 on Aug 15, 2007 2:59:32 GMT -5
All that will do is make LT & I tag-team murderesses, you know. 'Cause there ain't gonna be no Hugh to save you from certain death this time. *glances to husband to save me*......something tells me you'd have a third. LOL I've been on a guided boat tour- that was quite good, the woman with the microphone had to repeat everything in 4 different languages every time she said anything which I found to be oddly impressive.
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