Alan WallachI drew from my experience as a meteorologist back in my Air Force days to give some spice to my novel “A LONG DRUNK AND A BREAKFAST” I did that for six months flying into one hurricane 12 times for a temporary hazard pay of $150 a month. Sounds puny, right? But my monthly salary as a First Lieutenant was $335. The extra cash was significant. It wasn’t as scary as you might imagine. Get a copy of my book with the link button on the FICTION page of this website.
Ii have been a Met fan since their beginning, fed up that the Dodgers left. But now, I have become a reluctant Met fan. I was very optimistic about their chances but as most fans know, injuries took their toll this year. But for the life of me, I cannot figure any of the moves made by the manager, the general manager and the owner. I cannot watch a game any more. There is absolutely no instinct for the game on the part of any of them. The players have problems but good coaches, which they have NOT, could improve things tremendously. As an old Brooklyn Dodger fan since childhood, I never questioned Leo Durocher’s moves, even when he went to the Giants. I never second guessed Gil Hodges. He knew the game and could sense things. But this group stinks. Lindor is an overpaid joke.. Rosario was getting better every day. Baez is a hacker that will swing at anything that moves and statistically, he hits it occasionally. Talk that he would go to 2B when Lindor returns is a disaster. MacNeil is a natural 300 hitter and great fielder. I could go on but it’s useless. None of them have any feel for the game, the players and the situations. I know management will blame their failure on injuries and the players and probably trade the good ones. But nothing will change. Any knowledgable teenager could do better than these guys.
Our original purpose 20 years ago was to stop al qaeda from further intrusions into our country to do damage. We found and killed Osama bin Laden. We stopped al quaeda. A small force on the Afghan-Pakistan border would have done the job. We didn’t need to spend billions building an army for the Afghanis. They wouldh’t use it properly anyway. We knew that. It was a bonanza for the arms merchants and money in the bank for the rulers. Getting out was the right thing. Afghanistan is not our responsibility. And certainly not if they themselves don’t care. It’s a travesty that after billions of dollars spent on them, the Afghan army couldn’t even hold on for enough time for us to get out reasonably.