http://www.cybermusings.net Thinking Out Loud Online Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:13:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://www.cybermusings.net/2009/04/06/opening-day-follows-the-script/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2009/04/06/opening-day-follows-the-script/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:13:28 +0000 Robert http://www.cybermusings.net/?p=25 The last two seasons have begun with a tremendous sense of hope for the New York Metropolitans.  The last two seasons have ended with a sense of utter despair for the team, and more acutely, the fanbase.   Changes to the equation that had failed us the last two seasons were needed and made.  Whether the [...]]]> http://www.cybermusings.net/2009/04/06/opening-day-follows-the-script/feed/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2009/01/07/one-for-my-nephew/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2009/01/07/one-for-my-nephew/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:06:04 +0000 Robert http://www.cybermusings.net/?p=24 I drove 380 miles in one direction just so that I could see a baby boy’s dazzling smile.  An invitation extended by my brother Mike, in a not completely lucid moment, led to a road-trip that I needed more than he probably knew.  The calendar had flipped from 2008 to 2009, ending what had been [...]]]> http://www.cybermusings.net/2009/01/07/one-for-my-nephew/feed/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/10/12/requiem-for-a-season-and-a-stadium/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/10/12/requiem-for-a-season-and-a-stadium/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:53:05 +0000 Robert http://www.cybermusings.net/?p=23 I didn’t stay for the ceremonies.  I will make that admission at the beginning in case anyone was hoping for my take.  I’m sure they were touching.  I’m sure they were very sentimental.  I’m sure if I had stayed through the very long delay between the end of a season and the last goodbyes to [...]]]> http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/10/12/requiem-for-a-season-and-a-stadium/feed/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/09/07/much-could-be-decided/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/09/07/much-could-be-decided/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:47:35 +0000 Robert http://www.cybermusings.net/?p=20 While much of the country turns its attention to this first Sunday of the pro football season, I turn my attention to Flushing Meadows, NY.   For today, the Mets and Phillies have a day-night doubleheader and I will be at the nightcap.  It should’nt have been this way.  The second game was originally a day [...]]]> http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/09/07/much-could-be-decided/feed/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/09/07/start-of-the-defense/ http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/09/07/start-of-the-defense/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:14:30 +0000 Robert http://www.cybermusings.net/?p=19 The start of the football season had threatened to take me by surprise.  Between the Carlos Delgado revival show, the trip to Pittsburgh for both matters of family and baseball, and just the general mayhem that is summer time, I was mildly surprised to note that last Thursday was going to be opening night. It’s not [...]]]> http://www.cybermusings.net/2008/09/07/start-of-the-defense/feed/