So, no more curling for a while. At least not until the Cape and possibly the Crush. Of course there is also the annual meeting of the LBI curling club held on location down the shore.
Now is the time for baseball and the annual turmoil that is rooting for the Fightin' Phils. I grew up in Southern New Jersey (or more correctly South Jersey, an entry for a later date) and became a Phils fan at 8. Listening to Harry Calas and Rich Ashburn on the radio and watching Schmidt hit all those dingers ("It's outta here"). Still catch a game on TV whenever they are playing the Mets (boo) or the Braves (double boo). The last few years have been making a bet in Vegas on them to win it all. Got one for this year as well.
As part of Mrs. JHcurl's job she entertains clients at Yankee Stadium as loyal readers will know. Get to go there for about 15 games a year. Not bad but have never been an AL fan. Still hate the DH, always will. Takes away too much of the strategy of the game.
At least the Phils are not 10 games out of first yet like a couple of years ago. And there can always be another collapse by Mets which was the greatest thing to happen in sports for quite a while. Now there is the 2007 Mets instead of the '64 Phils that people will use as the "greatest choke in baseball".
Anyway, off-season posting has begun and will touch on who knows what.
Later,
JH
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Greatest choke ever? Don't forget the 2004 ALCS. Yanks were up 3-0 on the Sox and lost in seven--first time in baseball history a 3-0 team didn't win the series, no?
It was glorious, wasn't it?
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P.S. Suck it, Capers!
if you take out the fact that it was a 7 games series - losing 4 in a row is not that big of deal (whom was playing aside) That collapse by the Phils that year had been considered the biggest collapse in baseball history - manager Gene Mauch had to carry that around on his resume for the rest of his life. It was alos always referenced when any team "baring a Phillies like collapse" was close to clinching a divsion but lost a few games.
That mantle has now been passed to the Mets.
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