Try moving to Paris and watching the otherwise "too cool for cool" types in the City of Lights go deliriously, deliciously bonkers over PSG's incredible -- and ongoing! -- run. Tonic if not panacea. And I'm not even much of a soccer fan!
It's a problem, all right. At least you have that passion for sports for distraction. Although I'm a Giants fan for life -- ever since they came to SF -- I'm not much of a sports guy. Muhammad Ali made me into a boxing fan until boxing did what it did to him, and the growing awareness of CTE killed my interest in football. Basketball, be it men or women, bores the hell out of me, so you can imagine how I feel about soccer.
I too have a strong reaction whenever the Mango Mussolini (or "Combover Caligula") appears on the nightly news to bray like a jackass, but since I hate to waste good whiskey -- and don't want to buy a new TV -- I resist the urge to hurl my glass at the screen. I've been finishing a long book project, which provided the needed distraction, but with the end of that in sight -- a print run coming in late summer or fall if all goes well -- what then?
I dunno ... but I can say that the only Giant less likely than Baily to hit that inside-the-park walkoff would have been Wilmer. Baseball truly is the land of miracles, and for that I'm eternally thankful.
So agree with you! Loved seeing John Oliver's comments again, but have to say the best was. seeing the inside the park home run! I read about it, but it was a treat to see it! Thanks so much!
Try moving to Paris and watching the otherwise "too cool for cool" types in the City of Lights go deliriously, deliciously bonkers over PSG's incredible -- and ongoing! -- run. Tonic if not panacea. And I'm not even much of a soccer fan!
Ha. Funny how the emotions of sports overcome the “cool”.
Amen! And as I wrote in one of my Substack pieces recently, I think a similar phenomenon plays out in the City by the Bay at times.
It's a problem, all right. At least you have that passion for sports for distraction. Although I'm a Giants fan for life -- ever since they came to SF -- I'm not much of a sports guy. Muhammad Ali made me into a boxing fan until boxing did what it did to him, and the growing awareness of CTE killed my interest in football. Basketball, be it men or women, bores the hell out of me, so you can imagine how I feel about soccer.
I too have a strong reaction whenever the Mango Mussolini (or "Combover Caligula") appears on the nightly news to bray like a jackass, but since I hate to waste good whiskey -- and don't want to buy a new TV -- I resist the urge to hurl my glass at the screen. I've been finishing a long book project, which provided the needed distraction, but with the end of that in sight -- a print run coming in late summer or fall if all goes well -- what then?
I dunno ... but I can say that the only Giant less likely than Baily to hit that inside-the-park walkoff would have been Wilmer. Baseball truly is the land of miracles, and for that I'm eternally thankful.
Baseball is the land of miracles. I like that.
So agree with you! Loved seeing John Oliver's comments again, but have to say the best was. seeing the inside the park home run! I read about it, but it was a treat to see it! Thanks so much!
And I didn’t know until later that Kuiper, who made that dramatic call, was battling a sore throat. :)