Sad day

I was shocked when Ali told me last night that Harry Kalas died earlier in the day.  Evidently it wasn’t big enough news down here to make the local headlines or the Yahoo home page news that I check out several times a day.  I immediately felt a weight of sadness hit me.  I loved Harry Kalas.  Harry was the only voice I have never known as THE Phillies announcer.  He called his first MLB game 2 years before I was born.

I clearly remember sitting at our old house in Gouglersville with the stereo on listening to Harry call a game.  He was so good at making you see the game through his voice that a TV was unnecessary.  I loved hearing Harry, “Wheels” (Chris Wheeler) and Richie Ashburn interact. 

I am genuinely and deeply saddened by his passing. Thank you Harry for four decades of magic.

When I was on mlb.com reading the Harry Kalas story I was shocked to see yet another big baseball name from my childhood died, Mark Fidrych. Fidrych came into the league in 1976 with the Detroit Tigers, right in the middle of the height of my love of baseball.  He was a crazy, flamboyant, and very good left hander.  He had an incredible 19-9 record his rookie year.  Unfortunately after his brilliant 1st year he had a series of injuries that cut his career way short.  Evidently he died accidentally, he was found under a truck he was working on. He was only 54.

I watched the season finale of Terminator – Sarah Connor Chronicles.  Just like the rest of the show, it was fantastic.  They totally turned what you were thinking upside down in the finale.  I certainly hope it is getting decent ratings so it continues indefinitely.  It is my favorite show on TV right now since BSG is done.  It is so much better than Heroes at this point.

I watched the BJ Penn versus GSP II fight on Spike on the Tivo last night.  BJ needs to stay at 155.  At 170 he just looks fat and soft.  GSP basically beat the shit out of him.  It was shocking to see BJ dominated like that.  Yea BJ has lost before but never was he in a fight where he did NOTHING offensively.  I don’t know who at 170 would have a chance of beating GSP.  He reminds me of the Russian from Rocky IV. He just destroys people.

Many of the tech podcasts I listen to are constantly talking about Twitter.  Twitter this, tweet that, blah, blah.  Well since I don’t put nearly enough of myself out there electronically I decided to join the lemmings and made a twitter account.  duf67 for any twitheads out there.  I don’t know how much I’ll tweet.  So silly….