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“One-All In The Now Not-Sleepy” Tanka 2458

post-storm bake despite

few still-fresh third-day breezes:

no nap! rays* tie game!

two-bag error-comedy

now rays on all the bases!

*(Though I still prefer their old name The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, today’s modern less-threatening Rays of American League major league baseball are my listen-to of choice while reading, writing, gardening or avoiding noxious housework, the best is because they are in the same division with my since-childhood New York Yankees. So there! Born at Bethesda Naval Hospital, I am a Baltimore Colt, by grandparent placement in The Bronx, a Yankee, but by love of Bob Cousey and Red Auerbach’s delightful habit of lighting up a nasty, stinky ol’e fat victory cigar with minutes yet to play a Boston Celtics’ fan forever, though to be brutally honest most professional sports and their teams bore me – a longtime sports writer/photographer and editor covering most all American sports from pro- to just-stopped toddling-level and find my favorite times to watch still gravitate to college and high schools, though I have spent countless enjoyable hours patrolling just outside the lines at junior- and senior-level amateur events. One of my favorite memories is escorting a girlfriend to the long-gone Orlando Tennis Club to watch Pancho Gonzalez at the end of his legendary career hit on the old clay court, seen from a viewpoint at the juncture of the ad-court baselineand singles’ delineation. Ninety miles an hour and more! And most every time…IN!

September 6, 2019 by richwrapper Categories: Baseball, SportsTags: amateur, Baltimore Colts, Boston Celtics, New York Yankees, prep, sportswiter/editor/photographer, Tampa Bay Rays

“Cut It Shorter”

Gonna cut this session short: the veggie Sanford Saturday Magnolia Square Farmers’ (mostly misnomer but some true outta-the-local-fields) Market looked fine coming in and I need ‘nuther cuke for today’s salad…snow peas demand, donchaknow, and the $1 grow-yer-own herbs guy has a few nice bittids I can substitue beer-cash for and just remembered Univ.ofFlorida-plays-Vanderbilt in men’s basketball at noon…a religious obligation of some merit.

On a less nice note – though I continue to celebrate the un-kneeling of Colin Kaepernick(sp?) of the unlamented SanFranFoolish 51ers (earned for going two more paces out-of-bounds- but I digress and so will no more now). I sunday celebrate the two conference championship National Football League games by watching and imbibing and ingesting – specially made Jaimica tea with fresh-squoze tangelo juice with a smidge of equally fresh-squoze key lime juice and a dollop of rum to give any surviving bugs a headache at least before beginning low unholy weeks leading up to the slooperbowl (sans flush handle). The World’s Longest-Lasting PreGame party. Will not make my livingroom-famous pinto-n-blackbean (many amends!) dip nor my Florida avocado dip to further deplete the world’s supply of freshly-ovenfried tortilla strips to go with the usual pigskin communion accomplices beer and popcorn…the latter known as man’s most bestest means of delivering butter to the body., at least until just before kickoff that last time for a year. Ya’ll enjoy, now!