Sorry I left so abruptly yesterday Freeze and Guido, this has turned into quite the weekend so far. Had to go visit my Dad yesterday with my brother as he is now in a conv. home. He had a kidney removed just after the new year because of cancer and was supposedly cancer free after that. Two weeks ago he was home watching TV when he felt a sharp pain on his side. A trip to the emergency room and two days of testing later it was discovered that cancer had returned to his lungs, liver and in his bones. He's been in and out of radiation since and is rarely awake and coherant. Tomorrow he starts chemo and that will continue until he can't handle it anymore or it's gone (highly unlikely as it's in his bones now). So being in what I jokingly call a halfway house, he was up and about and we wound up staying the bulk of the day with him.
On the flip side, my daughter is at the hospital about ready to give birth to Loghan, my grandson. I'll be heading over there in the next hour or so.
Freeze, one could not claim a love for the game if they didn't know who Vin Scully was. I did not know he was retiring at the end of the season, he will be greatly missed!! I completely feel your pain, bro. Like you, the voice's of summers gone by bring warmth to my heart and a smile to my face...eternal youth and hope!! Vin Scully is a true living legend!!
Guido!!! I do remember now that I see it!!!! A fellow Priest AND Cubs fan, it get's no better than that!!! And that's your brother with you? Two peas in a pod I say!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:03:32 AM)| |  | Deep Freeze wrote: | | Don't even get me started!! You may or may not know this but, 2010 is Vin Scully's final year as THE voice of the Dodgers. I cannot even begin to tell you guys what his voice means to me. I recall my youth everytime he speaks. Such an icon. Such a true professional and a master of his craft. Things will just NOT be the same without him but I will always be grateful for the memories he has provided.
| | | ron h wrote: | | Well, you've got plenty of time to find the pic as you wrote you would post 'IF' they won the WS. I've never seen the one of you during the WS!!!
Harry Carey was / is a true legend rip. I miss him in the booth so much!! What I wouldn't give to have run into him one night at some bar on Rush Street!!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Oh, don't get me wrong. I stand by MY post 100% (save for that bad Don Henley song and worst running movie ever made). I actually have a picture of old Tiger Stadium in my office. Got the new one too. Bought at a market right in the streets of Greektown. Need I call back that pic of me and my bro with one of my FIRST JP cross pictures during the World Series? Skipped school every opening day. Sadly, to see the Tigs lose most often than not. Sad to say the same for the Cubbies.
Hell, Harry Carey made life a very good thing in the 7th irrespective of the outcome. 
Haven't forgotten the pic of me waiting on the platform for the L, Ron. Just can't find it. HAAAAA!!!
| | | Deep Freeze wrote: | | HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good, ol' Don!! Never liked that song all that much...HAHAHHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! Nevertheless, I stand by my post!! Tis MY time of year and it creepeth ever closer!!
Ron, glad I could find a way to take you with me to "that place". Cubs, Dodgers, Toledo Mudhens...makes no diffference to me. Its all about the time of year and all those things which make it what it is to us. Things that remind of us simpler days. Of family vacations in the mountains or at the beach or wherever. Camping, swimming, hiking. Sitting in that aforementioned chair after all the "eatin" is done and just looking into the night sky... Nothing like a warm, summer evening by the pool. |
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