Recent content by bernardsamuel

Not to worry, Sir, as in this particular situation, I do believe that "engaged" is an adjective modifying "Patriots" as contrasted to being a verb at all, much less a past-tense verb. The situation here is much like how we'd analyze "an engaged couple" or "an interested observer," with the past...

I'd like to see the Patriots win the coin toss and take the ball, then score immediately on a runback which would include one or more laterals. After that, when the Patriots kick off, the returner would fumble into the air while being tackled, and the Patriots would return the fumble for the...

CP, I was looking at your post #683 upthread, and for whatever it may be worth, it struck me that you communicate as well in the written word as in the spoken word. Perhaps if the incoming year is not as filled with commentating assignments as you'd like, some of the slack could be utilized for...

If not James Taylor, how about Carly Simon whom I believe lives on Martha's Vineyard? She's only about two years older than I am, so that makes her a "contemporary" option at least to this old fart.

Theo, let's grow the excellent seed you've planted regarding clinching on Yom Kippur. The Red Sox need to bring back onto their roster Ray Culp to pitch that game, even though he's over 75 years old by now. Why don't you CALL, we NEED RAY to do the job for us!

CP, one preliminary comment: since I enjoy your diary-commentary so much, you are not a faceless fan to me, and I actually tend to cheer for announcers, e.g. Mike Gorman was a high-school classmate, and Dick Stockton called the 1975 Fisk HR, so I'll always wish him well. ...just as I wish you...

Darren/CP, first, let me thank you for living your life publicly with this web-community. May you reap the most significant (IMHO anyway) benefit of such a life - you are more likely to do praiseworthy things and less likely to do what you wouldn't want to share. Second, you were genuine and...

Thanks for Lee's essay, for the comments so far which have all brought back fond flashes of memories, and for the alert regarding the upcoming Sunday night program. In Autumn 1967 at the age of 20, I was beginning my senior year at what was then called Bentley College of Accounting and Finance...

At the risk of being summarily banned, I looked up to see that Ray Boone played some 1B for us in 1960, so we can blame him for the very existence of Aaron F. Boone. Perhaps slightly more serious and responsive to the mandated topic, but even more arcane, there is one Gordon Windhorn who has...

Excellent, L-R! Haman's "ear" and a football's "air" sound pretty much alike - Mortensen's ear was deflated such that he couldn't hear the correct information about the ideal gas law's impact on innocent footballs. As regards the prunes, it is humor like yours that keeps this site going.

Since this is a "celebrating" thread, I'll take the plunge to share my celebration, having no idea whether this will resonate with anyone else here and/or whether I'll receive whatever ridicule I'll earn. The Megillah reading for Purim this morning took on an additional meaning for me, as one...

I went through the hundred prior posts in this thread and was surprised not to read anyone else imagining that the defensive offside on the tying two-point conversion might easily have construed as an "unabated to the quarterback" situation, with play being halted before the pass could even have...

Perhaps I'm disqualified from commenting upon the topic of good piss management, as in my old age (honest to Gronkowski, I'm 69) my nightly sleep of six hours is divided into three portions separated by two bathroom excursions. So let me harken back to when I was substantially younger...

I do believe that Smith's assertion is correct, namely that the Patriots will be picking up fans for just one day, and thanks for bringing that assertion to us here. I'm going to offer a very from-left-field guess as to what actually will go on. I would guess that the president will attend the...

In theory at least, my greatest "fear team" would be (ready for this?) Buffalo, because there would be so many "miracles" having taken place already for such a match-up to happen that people would be talking about the Bills as the "team of destiny" which would cause me to choke (though hopefully...