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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 07/27/2008 : 15:06:54
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Today I stood up for Da Bums. Went down to the ballpark this afternoon and saw the Mariners thump our hometown Jays ( ), and sat through a little spiel on the P.A. and the big screen about this year's Hall of Fame inductees. Cheered like mad for the Goose, and a few others around me gave a wee shout. But I think I totally confused everyone when they mentioned Walter O'Malley and I booed long and loud. Sheesh, dey ain't got no passion I tells ya!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/28/2008 : 07:54:07 [Permalink]
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I'm from the deep South, but in mid-'57, I spent a month or so at the Naval Recieving Station on Flushing Ave. It was quite an education for a young bumpkin such as myself -- oh, them big city lights! I finally shipped out with a whole, new outlook and a tattoo by none other than Brooklyn Blackie, who had a hole-in-the-wall parlor not far form the station. Alas, the tat has blured & faded as they do with the years, but the memories linger.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2008 : 09:52:57 [Permalink]
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I went to grade school there in the 60s. PS 185 Bay Ridge. Fond memories include walking home from school through a Norwegian neighborhood where we would stop in at a Norwegian café and get tasty "Reindeer meatballs" – (or that's what they said they were to us) – not unlike Ikea's Swedish meatballs today, then through a Syrian neighborhood where there would be a mix of canned middle eastern music from the aromatic delis mixed with amateur doo whop groups practicing in apartment alcoves; then through side streets of mixed ethnicity to home.
Once as month I'd have enough coins to stop in at the local hobby shop (run by two jovial old guys who reeked of alcohol.) I would buy a Navy ship model I saved up for. (The Brooklyn Navy Yard wasn't that far away where a few years earlier, a young real sailor on shore leave later to be known as filthy was across town getting his tattoo applied.) The store also sold great airplane models, and cool items of youthful pranks such as whoopee cushions, fake poop, fake melted ice-cream bars, etc.
On weekends, for mere pennies I'd ride the subway over to Manhattan with my dad where we could see everything from on original Van Gogh at the museum of modern art to the stuffed two headed goat at Ripley's "Believe it or Not" museum, all in one day. Or I'd go to Coney Island and have a potato knish or Nathan's hot dog and ride the crazy, delightfully unsafe rides at Steeplechase – a wonderful long gone 19th century amusement park. Another memory – lazy afternoons in Brooklyn's Botanical Gardens or as locals called it, the "Bot n' Tanikle Gahdinz". Great memories and a great place to visit today as well.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2008 : 11:16:49 [Permalink]
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The Rat:
But I think I totally confused everyone when they mentioned Walter O'Malley and I booed long and loud. Sheesh, dey ain't got no passion I tells ya! |
You know, the Dodgers have been in Los Angeles for more than 50 years now. Also, the move west by some key teams including the Dodgers was good for baseball. It spread major league baseball to cities all over the country. Also O'Malley originally wanted to stay in Brooklyn but Brooklyn wouldn't sell him land for a better stadium.
In any case, isn't 50 some years long enough to hold a grudge? Hell, I have only known the Los Angeles Dodgers as the Dodgers. And probably that goes for you too unless you're older than I am, which I doubt. My regret is that the Dodgers are not owned by the O'Malley family anymore. They were baseball people, not just businessmen who have no soul for the game itself.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2008 : 11:46:10 [Permalink]
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Living in Brooklyn and not knowing who Walter O'Malley is, strange. I equate it to a Michigander not being able to name Lake Michigan as one of the Great Lakes.
P.S. I would have moved too if I was OM, Moses was a total prick and is the cause of our countries oil dependancy issues. |
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Anybody here from Brooklyn?
