Thoughts of a Common Man

In the never-ending quest to amuse ourselves to death, I was all over the board on Saturday afternoon. The undefeated Yankees were on, and Aaron Judge homered. The Sabres, who are charging to the playoffs for the first time in about twenty years had a big game too. The Yankees were on the big screen, and the Sabres were on my phone. Then Sam, who loves college basketball more than anything else in his life, walked into the room, and wondered about whether or not I wanted to watch the game with him. Thankfully, the Sabres finished up (win) and I switched the rest of the Yankees game to my phone. I also enjoy the NCAA tournament but my brackets were putrid this year, and being out of the running has been made worse because my wife has two of the top 6 brackets in a 100-bracket pool. Yeah. She hasn’t shut up about it. So, time is passing with sports to distract us from the country being sold. The Yankees won, by the way.

More than 3,000 cities had protests going on yesterday. Perhaps more than a million people took to the streets, headlined by my buddy, Bruce leading the charge in Minneapolis. Which does a heart good when the daily atrocities of the pig pedo are front and center every day. There are now hundreds of photos of that sick bastard with children. He’s in his underwear in some. He’s kissing children in others. There is talk that one of the videos shows information about him with his own daughter. When do we move beyond marching in the streets, and just usher all of them out the door to the trash bin of our country. The war is a disaster. The economy is in shambles. There’s enough proof to comfortably say that he is a pedophile. He’s convicted of sexual assaults. The protests are peaceful and as American as baseball and apple pie. But when will we see action? Steve Bannon is broadcasting to the world that there will be a third term. He’s claiming to have found loopholes in the constitution. Mu...

I enjoy watching documentaries on sports legends and the famous musicians. I loved the look at Derek Jeter’s life, Jordan’s recap, and especially the look-ins on Billy Joel. Hell, even Charlie Sheen! But one of them that I didn’t enjoy was the one they did on Tiger Woods. “He’s kind of an asshole,” I recall mentioning to Kathy. “Kind of?” She asked. News broke that he had another incident with another vehicle, and it appears, he was impaired as he drove. Which is an asshole move, and at least his second offense. He also had another incident that nearly killed him, and of course, he hit a mailbox running from his wife after she learned about his affairs. When something happens, social media does its thing. Tiger was all over every site on Friday evening, and that brings up all the garbage. “No matter what, people will talk about Tiger’s golf game a hundred years from now,” one genius pointed out. Yeah, he’s a great golfer, or was. He’s destroyed his body, not from playing the game, but ...

Being a Yankees fan comes with great responsibility to irritate the fans of every other team. The Yankees opened the season by pummeling the Giants 7-0 so, of course, for about 15 hours, they were the only team with a 1-0 record. A buddy, and fellow Yankees fan reached out. “You know what you have to do, right?” I posted on Facebook that the Yankees had the best record in baseball. I sent texts to a few idiot Red Sux fans, and if they came back at me with anything to do about not winning a title since 2009, I wrote the argument winning number: 27 That infuriates every fan base. “How many have you seen?” They’ll ask me. “Seven. More than any other team in the last 50 years.” There will be more aggravation coming for all who don’t care for the 27-Time World Champion, Greatest Franchise in the History of Organized American Sports. The best is when I get a Yankees hater and a Bills fan all rolled into one. “Don’t you own a shirt that says, ‘One before I die’?” I can’t help being an arrogan...

Well, this is going to shock a lot of people, but a report came out yesterday that Jack Smith compiled. Classified documents were definitely stolen, and shared with people aboard an airplane, and were sold to enrich one fat orange pedophile. Hard to believe, right? I mean, after all, he was a madman about Hilary Clinton using her email at home. “Lock her up!” Was the big rallying cry, as he and his cult members lectured us about right and wrong. He loaded classified documents by the truck load and stored them in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lardo. It’s enough to put a normal person in jail, for the rest of his life, but everyone forgot about it. Because there’s a new crime every day! For those not quite getting it: He stole classified documents and sold them and kept the money. A one word description would be: Treason. The Epstein documents have been put on the back burner because of the war that we already won, but hasn’t ended. Oh yeah, what else? The country is now insolvent. Another word fo...

It’s early for baseball season, and a little hard to get too worked up because it was 23 degrees yesterday morning. Not to mention that the Yankees are opening up on the west coast, and opening day is actually, opening night. But make no mistake: Life is better when they’re playing baseball, and I can open up the box scores shortly after opening my eyes. The Yankees won 94 games last year. They have finished with a winning record every season since 1993. That’s a lot of winning, and while the hedge fund dodgers are making a mockery of the payroll system, the Blue Jays showed the world last year that they can be beat. Toronto should have won that 7th game. On to this year. In the National League, the division winners will be: Phillies, Cubs and Hedge Fund. The wild card teams will be Atlanta, San Diego and the Mets. I think the Phillies make it to the World Series where they  will face, and lose to the American League entrant. Yeah. Take a wild guess where I’m going with this: Divis...

Over the weekend, the pig backed himself into a corner with his tweets. There was a long tweet that threatened Iran, saying it would be a bombing that would be so awesome, like nothing that’s ever happened. The tweet threatened war crimes and came with a 48-hour deadline. Iran answered immediately saying that they didn’t need to think about it. Bombs away! The world waited in the balance and everyone was concerned because escalating the war would destroy the markets further and send gas prices to $6.00 a gallon. But Pedo Pig had a major problem because if he backed off he was going to be seen as chickening out again. If he bombed civilians he was going to be arrested as a war criminal. What to do? What to do? He did what he does best, of course. He lied! Told the world, in time for the markets to adjust, that the United States and Iran had embarked on very productive, unbelievably amazing peace talks.  The greatest talks of all time. An hour later, Iran popped the balloon  The...

Pluto television has all the old shows. More trouble for Kathy as she walks by asking: “What in the hell are you watching?” Now, The Odd Couple is a legendary show for a few reasons: 1). I remember watching the show with my Mom. For some reason, it always seemed as though we were the two watching the show, and man, that’s a cherished memory. Mom would always remark about what an absolute pain in the ass Felix was. 2). I wanted to be a sportswriter because of Oscar. For the longest time, as a kid, when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, ‘sportswriter’ was the answer. 3). My first newspaper interview as an author brought up my Oscar Madison quote. I told the reporter: “I wanted to be Oscar Madison. I wanted to dress like a slob, eat like a pig, and write things people want to read. I’ve done 2 out of 3 and my writing career is picking up steam.” The Buffalo News ran that quote under my picture. 4). The show stands up! I watched the episode with Deacon Jones where they m...

Speaking to Japan’s prime minister who asked about why she had to be surprised about the start of the Iran war, the fat pedophile said: “You didn’t tell me about Pearl Harbor.” Robert Mueller, a man who served the county through a number of administrations died on Saturday. “I’m glad he’s dead.” The orange pig said. We have zero clue about why the war was started. To save the good people of Iran who were killed for protesting? Saving them by dropping bombs on their children is a curious way to show love. “They were two weeks away from starting a nuclear war,” the obese idiot mentioned. That’s a lie. Gas prices are through the roof.  401 k’s are in the basement. Stock market has lost a trillion. All the money DOGE was going to save? Yeah. No. The deficit is climbing. “The war is over. We can leave anytime because they’re decimated,” President Shitsinhispants mentioned. As they talked about needing $200 billion more, and sending more than 2,000 troops into harm’s way. And did you see...

Wisconsin lost to High Point. I have zero clue what state the kids from High Point live in, but they shocked the basketball world. Duke barely survived their game with Siena, and the final score won me a square as 1 & 5 were my numbers. And then North Carolina went down to VCU. So, we have ourselves a tournament… …which is great fun because you can watch and forget about the world for a while. And baseball season kicks off in less than a week as the teams are packing up their gear and heading North. “Are the Yankees going to be good?” A worker asked me. “They’re always good,” I said. “I’m hoping they’re great.” It’s been 33 years since the Yankees last had a team that wasn’t ‘good’. They’ve had about ten great teams in that span. Of course, I believe they will win the world series. Even when they were mediocre in the 80’s, I thought they were going to win it all. And that’s the beauty of sports. Escape. “Would you rather the Bills win the Super Bowl or the Sabres win the Stanley Cu...

I’m friends with a couple of guys who are dyed in the wool Republicans, and we have had some spirited discussions. I don’t get where they’re coming from, of course, and I was a little apprehensive about bringing up politics, but they decided to tell me that Iran had to be dealt with. “That’s not what you said before the election,” I said. “You were telling me that it was all about taking care of Americans, and that you didn’t want any new wars.” “We had to,” one of them said, but he was looking at his feet. “Okay,” I said. “You started it. What about the Epstein files?” “What about them. Bill Clinton is in them, right?” “Who knows?” I said. “Your guy is hiding them.” “You know Clinton is in them,” he said. “If he is, put him in jail,” I said. “What about your fat friend?” “He’s not in them,” he said. I laughed. “Clinton definitely is, in your mind, but no way Shitler is?” “I need to see proof,” he said. “He’s hiding the files!” “Then I guess we’ll never know,” he said. “Besides, no mat...

Michael Lorenzen is a major league pitcher, who was on the mound for a couple of back-breaking runs as Italy lost to Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic. A group of people went on the attack, threatening Lorenzen with bodily harm. Even death! I happened to look in on the hate as Lorenzen’s brother sent out a post saying that threatening the life of a professional athlete is just ridiculous. Big mistake! The brother got tremendous hate for sticking up for his bro. “You’re soft! Your brother sucks and so do you!”  Those were the tame responses. Lorenzen is a decent major league pitcher. He even threw a no-hitter as a member of the Phillies. He has spent more than 8 years on a major league roster. He gave up a few runs in a big game! And people are making threats on his life? Now, it’s not just Lorenzen. Any athlete in any sport who has lost has been absolutely destroyed on social media. Some, if recognizable, face hate and vitriol in their every day lives. Despicable, but man, so...

We were in our 20’s and now we’re in our freaking 60’s. Long ass time to put up with someone else! Of course, Bruce put it the best when he said that we’re all puzzles and we find companions just to see if the broken pieces can somehow fit together. Nothing is more true as you age, because most of the pieces are broken. But we have been celebrating this birthday for a couple of weeks now, as it appears to be mentioned every half hour or so. A couple of things are a must on March 17th. Sponge candy and an angels food cake. My mother-in-law used to take care of such things, but I’ve had to fill the void. I tried making the cake one year. Did you ever try and frost an angel food cake? Not easy. Especially not for someone with my limited baking skills. Couple of years ago, I found a bakery that was willing to do it, and even that baker wouldn’t guarantee that it would look perfect… …because they can’t be frosted! I bought a second cake because an angel’s food cake is small, and Kathy gave ...

Kind of. We all know how much I loathe January and February, and the first week of March sucks too. But I watched the NCAA selection show with my son and one of his friends. The tourney is also being played in Buffalo, and Sam is going to the games as well. The Sabres are still in first, and the World Baseball Classic has been great fun, and Japan got the boot so we don’t have to listen to them gloss over Ohtani, never mentioning that he is a degenerate gambler who got away with it. The temperature will be in the 60’s tomorrow, but will be sinking into the 20’s on Tuesday for the birthday of my beautiful wife. (She’s been celebrating it since the middle of February). Anywhoha… …it appears that we made it through the winter. My fantasy baseball draft is scheduled for next week too. Opening Day is 9 days away… …just gotta hang on and pray that the obese pedophile doesn’t blow up the world.

Had a visit with Mom yesterday, and somehow Dean Martin’s name came up. “I don’t remember him anymore,” Mom said. I pulled up a photo of Dino, and she smiled. “He looked like Dad,” Mom said, and that was certainly true. I put on “Everybody Loves Somebody” and Mom’s smile grew wider. “Oh yeah. He had a great voice, but I’m thinking of someone else.” “Frank Sinatra,” I said. Mom nodded. That was all I needed. I played six straight Sinatra songs, and during ‘Summer Wind’ Mom sang along. She knew every word, and every nuanced groan from Frank, and I noticed that her eyes were filled with tears. “Why are you crying?” I asked. She shrugged. “I don’t know.” “It’s because Dad sang all these songs to you,” I said. “He’d put the records on and blast them all through the house. He loved Sinatra.” “Why do you listen to him?” Mom asked. “Because Dad was right. Frank was great.” We listened to the last few minutes of “Summer Wind” and I said: “That’s one of my favorite songs ever,” and I meant it. “...

Those who know me are well aware that I love baseball. I am of the firm opinion that it is the greatest game ever invented, and the changes they made a couple of years ago made it even better. They got rid of the shift, and a lot of the dead time. When the season starts, I have a long-running soap opera to follow as I check every box score, and my day is better following a Yankees win the night before. Of course, I’m keeping an eye on the World Baseball Classic, and the team from the USA is absolutely stacked, and of course, they have the best hitter in the universe batting third, Aaron Judge. But I’m not sure I want them to win because they may be invited to the White House and I don’t want to think less of some of the players who might make the visit to shake hands with a criminal, pedophile. Some have mentioned that it would be a great opportunity to visit the White House no matter who is the president. 👎  No freaking way! Tage Thompson is the best player on the Buffalo Sabres,...

There was a rally on Tuesday night in Ohio. One lie after another. Bashing Obama for some reason because he bounced down the stairs. Called it below the standards of the office. He wore a baseball cap to greet the bodies of soldiers who died in his fake war. Then he danced to YMCA as bombs were going off all over the Middle East. He also golfed on Sunday. Having the time of his life, as every day brings more evidence that he raped children. I saw a woman, a victim, who was held at the island. She was raped, three times a day. She was 10 years old. She specifically mentioned Maxwell, Epstein and the orange pig. Ten years old! There are videos… …people have seen the videos… …they have chosen to try and hide it. I can’t just leave it out of this blog. I certainly don’t want to talk about it, or think about it, but most Americans are oblivious, or simply don’t believe it. I know why that is. It’s simply because it’s too horrifying to believe that a man would do such things to children. Our...

Happened to watch the second season of Ted - hilarious. I loved the movies too, and had a laughing fit in the movie theater when they visited Tom Brady to try and steal his sperm. I thought about the series and movie when Ollie jumped into my bed and tried to hide under me when the thunder started. “We’re thunder buddies,” I said. The other great show going right now is “Shrinking”. Harrison Ford is great in comedy. Yet, it’s the entire cast. It’s a funny show with a lot of heart. The Ted series is a little lower on the intellectual tree, but all goes in comedy. I’m alone when that series is on because Kathy’s response is: “This is stupid.” She automatically goes to a murder mystery when she’s watching alone. I’m always.s searching for the sit-com, but never “The Big Bang Theory” as Sheldon gets on my nerves. Think “Modern Family” or “Two and a half Men” but only the Charlie Sheen episodes. Television is a great way to escape… …especially during a thunderstorm when my Thunder buddy is ...

So much shit to sift through. Whenever he opens his mouth lies just fall out, but one made me angry when talking about greeting the gold star family members. “They told me to finish the job,” the pedo pig said. No they didn’t.  I don’t have a child in the service, but I’m a Dad and I wouldn’t be so gracious in that moment. Then I happened to catch his: “This is the best economy in the world and other leaders are congratulating me on bringing back a dead country.” Does he know that we are out here every day? “No one talks about affordability anymore!” He exclaimed. Because we can’t afford anything. The rising gas prices is going to just destroy people, because when gas prices rise so does everything else. And there is no sensible reason forthcoming as to why a war was started… …other than one… …he raped children. A lot of what happened is public record, but for one reason or another, the mainstream media won’t print it, or ask about it. Do a search on the family of the children he p...

And the Buffalo Sabres are in first place. I haven’t watched a lot of hockey in the last 15 years or so, but watching the game on Sunday night- the Sabres beat Tampa 8-7 to take over first place, I was reminded of the year that my buddy Kimball, gave me and my buddy Jeff his two seats in the reds at the Aud, and we watched Mogilny and LaFontaine go crazy every night. I was out of town for a work event so I watched the entire game, trading texts with my boys. Good to have hockey back. Woke up early and walked to the car, thinking, “I don’t even need this coat.” The event took place at a golf course, and while it wasn’t open, I watched the crew work to get the place ready. Hope springs eternal. And the world is an absolute mess. We’re going to pay $5 for a gallon of gas soon. The war has everyone on edge, and one idiot is saying it’s just beginning, while the other loser is saying it’s over. Our 401ks are being beat to shit. The evidence on the Epstein files and the rape of children cont...

On Saturday night, Kathy drifted from the television so I had free rein with the remote. I went old school with James Garner in Rockford Files, but Kathy returned about a half an hour in. Rockford was chasing a suspect who ended up dead, and the guy he was interviewing said: “He was going to die anyway, the guy was old. He’s in his 60’s!”  Then Rockford offered twenty grand to buy a house. “We have to change this,” Kathy said. “I’m watching it,” I argued. “There’s fifteen minutes left.” We watched the end together. “A great story,” I said. “It’s old!” Kathy countered. “So are you,” wasn’t the right answer. Yet, I found myself up an hour early on Sunday morning because no one told Miller and Ollie about turning the clocks ahead. Back to Rockford as I had the television control again. During the second episode of the morning, I considered that Rockford Files is the perfect show for an old guy on a Sunday morning. I’m in my sixties!

My poor sister. She came for a visit and promptly got sick. And it’s her birthday! And it was nearly 70 degrees here in Buffalo. Which felt great. I struggled at the end of the week as my hip went south on Wednesday, and took my legs and back with them. I needed a massage, and my people scheduled it for me. I got ready to go, threw a few passes for Ollie and it hit me. I could head out in shorts and a tee-shirt. Thoughts of golf creeped in (while my body felt like the tin man). Tried to figure out how old Carrie is now. She doesn’t want me to advertise it, but suffice it to say that I can’t believe that the youngest of us all is that freaking old! The massage worked. The poor therapist was very skilled, and she wondered how I could get my body in such a state. Happens as we get older, I guess. When we were growing up, I knew that if Carrie got sick I would get sick soon after. Anywhoha… …moving better… …it was great to see the sun… …and Happy Birthday, Carrot… …we love you.

Stumbled upon a Facebook request of an old college friend. I’m thinking that the last time I saw him was 1986. Probably hadn’t thought of him in 25 years. And there he was, and he looked human! It showed that he was recently retired from the bank where he worked for 36 years! I was happy to see that because I wasn’t sure that he would be able to survive in the real world. We all drank a lot in college, but he set records. We once placed him at the door to the party with a sign around his neck that said: “Welcome to the party!” He slept in that chair for about 6 hours after he’d attended the party for about an hour. About a month later, he was set adrift in a canoe… …in Lake Erie! I didn’t participate in that one, but saw him after he woke up and swam ashore. Yeah. So, I was happy to see that he was alive and seemingly healthy. I sent a message that I was thrilled to see that he was good. He answered: “Hey Fuzzy.” And nothing else. So, I guess we are as connected as we are going to be, ...

During the summer months there’s an audible groan of we get advanced notice that the Yankees game has been rained out. Pops will usually send me the following message: “Bah!” Ollie has a whole new level of disappointment for a rain out. We played catch all through the winter in horrendous temperatures. The warmer temps lately have made an absolute mud pit out of the backyard, but we can play in that - I just have to clean his paws. The heavy rain brought the end of the game yesterday afternoon and I swear I heard Ollie say: “Bah!” And for anyone keeping count, he’s up to 9,685 for the year. We should go over 10 grand over the weekend. Weather permitting.

Gas prices, electric bills, grocery prices and insurance costs are soaring. The morale of the country is as low as I’ve ever seen it. We are at war. Corruption is being bandied about as Congress got around to asking questions. The Epstein files are horrific. And everything we hear from the administration is even worse. Hearing Hegseth say that they aren’t going to follow any ‘stupid rules of engagement’ as they talk tough regarding ‘Epic Fury’. It made me think of high school kids trying to name their band before they learned how to play instruments or write songs: “Hey, dudes, how about ‘Epic Fury’?” It’s not a planned event at all. Try and find the basic reason as to why the bombing started. Little Marco can’t get the story straight. We’ve heard that it was to free the good people of Iran, and now… …they’re dropping two hundred pound bombs on the good people’s heads. Blew up an elementary school. Of course, America is now looking for allies to help in their effort. We don’t have any ...

I don’t do anniversary dates of tragedies, but it’s impossible not to realize that 17 years ago, we lost my brother, Jeff, and the light of the world severely dimmed. There’s been a lot of death around us. The two Americans killed in Minnesota, for nonsense. Americans who are shot and killed on the streets every day because we can’t have common sense gun laws. I knew a man who arrived on a construction site last week. He sat down and laced up his boots, and then he collapsed and died of a heart attack. A school of elementary children were bombed in Iran. Sad stuff to think about on the saddest day on the calendar, and yet, it made me contemplate the value of a single life. Alex Pretty and Renee Good have been gone for less than a month, and the millions of us that were shocked and horrified have moved on with our own little lives. Both those who loved them won’t ever fully get over it. The light of their world has dimmed. And we don’t talk about death much past the fact that it’s too s...

I don’t know much about the coming technology. I have no clue what Crypto is about. I still write checks to pay my bills, and I pay with cash as often as I can. My boys don’t carry cash. I handed Sam two twenties and a ten one day and he asked if I could Zelle it to him. “I’ll lose that in ten minutes,” he explained. And now we are talking about AI and I’m starting to hear that down the line there won’t be any need for drivers as cars will self-drive. We won’t need lawyers as AI will write briefs and summarize arguments in seconds. Surgeons? Gone - robot surgeons and computer doctors will be all we need. As for artists, teachers and writers and musicians and movie makers? Human participation is not required. The article that I read stated that the work force will be cut in half in the next 5-7 years. Companies won’t need to buy health insurance or give time off to robots or computers. In order to be a productive member of society those who lose the jobs described above will be picking ...

I’m at a loss. Has any leader anywhere ever said, “That’s the way it is” when asked about the loss of soldier’s lives? Could he care any less? And as everyone expected there is no plan for the war in Iran. It seems that they are expected to drop some bombs and leave. Iran was ready and had regime succession plans in place. They immediately began bombing bases all around them. And immediately there was an ask for a ceasefire and Iran said, “Yeah, no thanks.” This is why there should never be an impulsive entry into a battle. It is why Congress (wherever the hell they are) is supposed to be consulted. I spent most of Sunday just plain sick to my stomach as I considered the loss of life, and the giddiness inside the GOP as they try to figure out what is going to happen next. Iran is not going to roll over. China and Russia will provide them with all the missiles they need to destroy Israel and U.S. interests. And the pedophile scumbag says; “That’s the way it is?” From a golf course. End ...

It was quite a show of force on Saturday morning, as the United States, for some reason, attacked Iran. It’s too bad Congress slept through it. What will it take to kick this administration out? They ripped up the Iran no-nukes agreement, and are now dropping bombs to get them to agree not to use nukes? The guy who ran on ‘no new wars’ has now - with his drunken secretary of war, shooting down air balloons over Texas. They have also now bombed 8 nations. And again, all those war hawks are saying that there will be casualties but that the soldiers know what they signed up for. They didn’t sign up to fight a war that was started to protect the pedophile from being found out. Saturday’s strikes took out a girl’s school. Soldiers be damned. Citizens be damned. There is money to be made off war! There are pedophiles to protect!! Get him out. Feels like we are heading for WWIII.