nikos, no I lost touch with him after LL and we went separate ways. I moved up to HS baseball and did quite well as a Pitcher & 3rd baseman...but that blonde moved next door and my life changed.
A quick follow-up to my story...
In LL, I played mainly 2nd base. Although my BA was 2x Steve’s, his throws to 2nd base would REALLY burn my glove hand. He had a hellava arm even back then as a kid.
I think everyone has their lament. My room mate in college was drafted to the Baltimore organization about the time there was a need for left handers. He was big and could hit the heck out of the ball. They’d get him in games just so he could get the at bats.
I told him, just one year in MLB you can write you ticket. Anyway, he made it into Law School, decided not to show up for the next season. Wasn’t cut. He’s never looked back. Happily married the world is his oyster.
I was a drama major. I had some talent, but you go into acting mainly if you have the drop good looks which I did, til the hair thinned. I was in that same group of Speilberg and the others who were into the movie making end of it. I didn’t know there was anything more than acting.
Anyway, I switched to medicine. Then, on a whim, Ten years ago I started writing plays, so came full circle. I would have starved as an actor. I can’t imagine not being in medicine, but the joy of watching people perform your work is a high, probably second to someone singing your music.
I’m excited about a candidate for like the third time in my life. I was too young to know the bad things about Kennedy, and I probably even at that age was more in line with republicans, who my parents supported, but my life changed the day Kennedy was killed. If I ever get the chance I would ask Trump to tell us what he was doing when he heard about it. The second person, of course, was Reagan.
Trump is our connection to the past. You see it in his dress, his manners, his work ethic, his kids, his energy, is aggressiveness. That’s why we need him as president.
We’re Americans. We’re a tough bunch especially when someone messes with us, or when we want something. WE’re proud to the point of people not liking us.
The idea of taking from one of us to give it someone else goes against our self reliance and independence. Not talking about the truly needy, but that’s what our church’s and charities do.
The idea that people are coming here to take and not assimilate bothers me. Trump gets it. The others are too young to know this.
Anyway, enough of this monologue.
Go Trump!!!