More baseball nostalgia
The Mets finally got a no hitter on June 1, 2012.
It’s all coming back to me now
So you should know that I am not a “shopper”. I live in shopping mall heaven — I’m ten minutes from the Broadway Mall, 15 from Roosevelt Field and 25 from Whitman Shoppes — but I seldom go to the mall. I prefer to shop on line. And when I do venture into a store, I usually know what I want and buy it as quickly as possible. I’m not one to browse through stores just to see what’s for sale. There’s a local chain, Baked By Melissa , that specializes in mini cupcakes. They’re primarily in Manhattan. A few years ago Becca introduced me to their product - delicate little cakes, exquisitely decorated, very tasty. I walk past their shop on 7th Avenue whenever we go to the theater. Well, last week I remembered that they used to have a second shop on 7th, right next to the original shop, but selling gluten-free versions of all their cupcakes. The gluten-free shop closed, but the company continues to make a gluten-free version of their product. So I thought that gluten-free cupcakes wou
Are those games exciting or boring?
ReplyDeleteI’d say, if you appreciate the game, it’s exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe day Wells pitched his perfec game, I was in New Jerseyat my cousin’s bris. We had two possible routes going home from the bris. One route took us through the Bronx, right past Yankee Stadium. The other route took us down the east side of Manhattan.we decided to go home through Manhattan, because we thought there would be a lot of traffic in the Bronx because of the game.
Well, then-Vice President Al Gore was in town that day, nothing was moving because of his motorcade, we got caught in a massive traffic jam. We looked across the river, and there was no traffic at all in the Bronx.
No one was leaving Yankee Stadium until they knew the outcome of the game.