I consider today the start of the college football season. That makes me happy. The hometown team, the Syracuse Orange, starts on the road. No trip up to the Carrier Dome for my dear wife Karen a...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/09/04/happy-college-football-season/
There’s something about seeing the Mets and the Yankees get together. Even when the Mets are struggling badly, losers of eight straight, and the Yankees could be the best team in baseball. On S...
https://markbialczak.com/2018/06/15/my-mets-and-the-yankees-put-on-a-great-show/
So how did I prepare in the final run for today’s start of the new golf league that KP and I will play in for the first time at Foxfire Golf Course? Did I practice for hours at a driving range?...
https://markbialczak.com/2018/05/01/good-play-for-the-start-of-the-new-golf-league-is-in-the-bag/
Tuesday was sunny and warm, so we stood by the first tee of Timber Banks ready to play spring golf in Central New York again. Never before had we started our golf season off with two rounds on co...
https://markbialczak.com/2018/04/27/two-days-in-a-row-on-the-course-thank-you/
Don’t think that I skipped bowling this season. I just haven’t shared about the exploits of our Limp Lizard squad in the Thursday Night Men’s League at Bowling Green in North Syracuse, N.Y....
https://markbialczak.com/2018/04/12/i-rolled-along-with-the-limp-lizard-squad-this-season/
The 2018 baseball season starts today. My New York Mets open at home in CitiField against the St. Louis Cardinals. That familiar feeling of hope washes over me again. Can this be our year? From m...
https://markbialczak.com/2018/03/29/and-so-we-start-anew-lets-go-mets/
The big boss was smiling, with a well-loved red book in her hand. The director of the library had spied it in our lobby used book sale and bought it for me. The precious edition came out in 1965,...
https://markbialczak.com/2018/02/23/a-wonderful-trip-in-the-mets-wayback-machine/
Surprise, said the text from my dear wife Karen. She’d purchased me a gift to kick off my Birthday Week celebration in very big style. This year’s edition of the Syracuse Chiefs Hot Stove Din...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/12/14/meet-and-greet-the-mets-to-warm-up-my-birthday-hot-stove/
The five-buck ticket was worth it. My fantastic daughter Elisabeth, her sensational significant George Three and I had a fine time for the season finale at the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon. We...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/12/01/everybody-rocked-but-the-orange/
The sign I spy every day while I walk from my workplace at the library for my second cup of coffee from Nichols across First Street finally pulled me in last Saturday. My old pal first met at the...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/10/27/the-cobblestone-proves-cozy-for-college-football-for-sure/