there were Dwight Gooden and Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez pitching, and Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry and Lenny Dykstra and Mookie Wilson. Such a great team.
I love Ron Darling. He came to the A's at the end of his career. (And Jay Payton was with us last year.) Darling is also one of the subjects of the greatest baseball essay ever, "The Web of the Game" by Roger Angell.
Ron Darling was a hapa Hawaiian pretty boy but he was smart, and well read and a great pitcher. He went to Yale and spoke fluent Chinese and French.
I used to have a crush on Lee Mazzili, way back in the day. I also loved Al Leiter, who was always so intense and concentrated so hard, and just looked ready to blow a gasket when he wasn't throwing strikes.
Bless you, Amyliz. SOMEONE here knows how to talk about athletes in Bitches.
Standards, people, standards!
I wander away and Bitches is all hot boys in the summer.
Pity I am braining All Race Weekend, All the Time. Ima gonna whomp a driver, stick him in my trunk or backseat and then tie him to my bed... Alternately, nice them transmissions...
BM#1 hung his Penn diploma in the bathroom much to his parents horror.
ha! yes. that. I'd do that with my highschool diploma (if I could find it. there's a pile of those things somewhere), and my mother would get dead. So I won't.
it looks like any way you go we could definitely consider ourselves "neighbors" in the Buffista sense of the word.
thank you for that! I will really, really need good neighbors in every sense (as a wise Sparky recently pointed out). I know that the job is important - and that DH is lucky to find one that he's so excited about. But the idea of moving away from everything here is not sitting well with me. And now with Sparky so close, I am extra flattened.
DH could commute - work for the week in PA, come down for the weekends - it's 1 hour by train. Neighbors and friends have asked why not? But we likes to see each other. And to cook dinner together. And Iris thinks he's a pretty fun guy to be around. I'm just not liking the idea that six months from now, we realize we've made a mistake. Or finding myself making wet blanket phone calls to my friends here. Or posting huge whines to the board because I can't deal.
And tell me more about the Arts and Crafts colony after you check it out -- that sounds really interesting.
absolutely - we're driving there today. up through Brandywine - one of my favorite non-waterfront places in the US.
just found out that my mom has put me on the mailing list for her church. It is hard that she's so over the top excited about this, and I am so not.
lisah - are you honfesting this weekend?
eta: this is hard to explain outside of baltimore city limits. Sparky, you should come up. we can't go, but someone should. [link]
Can I have some electricity~ma for today. This will be the second attempt for the electric company to turn on my electricity in the new place. In order for that to happen, someone has to read the work order, find the key to the fence that surrounds the electric meters and remember to take that key with them. I have very little faith in all of this happening, but it would be very nice to have electricity and hot water tomorrow when we move some of the preliminary stuff in and to clean the bathroom and kitchen.
Happiest of birthday happies to Cass!
All kinds of electricity~ma, sj. Moving is so hard.
Looking forward to updates, Sox. Also, see above comment to sj -- it's especially hard when you're not sure you want to.
Ron Darling was a hapa Hawaiian pretty boy
He still looks damn good. I love watching the games when he and Hernandez are announcing.
Bless you, Amyliz. SOMEONE here knows how to talk about athletes in Bitches.
I am all about lovely men in form-fitting uniforms. Football players may be in great shape (some of them, anyway) but you can't see it. Too much padding. Baseball gives you a perfect view of a nice ass.
