Comments on: Dorks Turn Me On

By: Hank Waddles

Hank Waddles — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:00:55 +0000

Alex, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again right now. Pieces like this are reasons why the Banter is the best site out there. Sure, I love the roster discussions and the free agent evaluations, but the neighborhood walks, subway trips, and evenings on the couch are even better. You da man, dog, you da man.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:14:38 +0000

And the editor was Stanley Woodward. Be sure and read his memoir, PAPER TIGER.

By: The Mick536

The Mick536 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:39:44 +0000

Don’t be dissing the Trib, youse guys. I grew up reading the sports section of the Trib. It was green. I would grab it from my father when he got off the train. Followed the box scores and standings. Tom Wolfe, a pitcher by trade, wrote their with Jimmy Breslin, another baseball fan. Right of center, maybe, but also spawned New Journalism. Leonard Koppett (the only writer in the baseball and basketball H of F) and Red Smith, a close friend of Mr. Heinz, taught me how to read the game. My father’s late afternoon paper, if you guys remember when there were late afternoon papers, was the World Telelgram and Sun. They had a Jewish guy who changed his name to Dan Daniel. My father made me read him also. Daniel, who is also in the baseball H of Fame, founded Ring magazine. Daniel loved the Mick. It was said that he also promoted Joe D’s carreer, protecting the image, as well as the Babes. This is as good as it gets, eh?

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:02:08 +0000

Pat Jordan once wrote a nice essay about Hoshi, one of his dogs and titled it BEYOND DOG. And that’s how it is with animals–there really seems like there is a person in there.

Sliced, so sorry for your losses.

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:42:46 +0000

[6] thanks, Diane.

By: wsporter

wsporter — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:33:28 +0000

Tabloids and Bill Powell and Myrna Loy. One of the best exchanges in the history of the movies from the production code era occurs in the “Thin Man”.. . “It said he shot you in the tabloids” . . . “He didn’t come anywhere near my tabloids”. . .

Loosing a dog is just a horrible experience. As a child I could never understand it or see the justice or fairness in it. As an adult I understand the fragility of life and have been around my share of death and tragedy but I can never seem to loose that sense of basic unfairness; they love us so much and so well and their time is just so short. It may be best for us that it is short though. Could you imagine the pain of loosing a dog after 30 years of having received so much selfless love and affection. This has been a tough year around my family and friends who have lost a number of dogs, some young and some old. It’s a hard, hard thing.

By: Diane Firstman

Diane Firstman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:29:09 +0000

[5]

Sorry Sliced (virtual hug)

By: Sliced Bread

Sliced Bread — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:48:33 +0000

Sorry about your in-law’s dog, Alex.

We had to put down our beloved beagle Bailey three weeks ago. She was 13. My wife and I were in the room together, sobbing as she was laid to rest. Bailey was like our first kid. We got her as a pup a couple months before our first anniversary. My wife and I were the kind of dog-loving nuts who sent Christmas cards with pictures of our beagle — before our 3 sons took over the picture.

By sad coincidence, my parents put down their dog the night before. They’re the kind of dog-loving nuts who spent thousands of dollars on their boy’s 2 year fight against cancer.

My family’s Christmas was definitiely tinged with sadness.
The loss of our dogs was the first time my sons had to face a death in the family. One of my sons, the most sensitive one, has taken it hard, and has been crying at night before he goes to sleep. He came downstairs crying last night. We assured him that Bailey misses him too, and that she’s happy, safe, and warm, sleeping in the sun (her favorite thing to do) up in doggy heaven That was a comfort to him.

We’re getting a new dog this spring, but we’re not ready yet.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:37:55 +0000

“New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!” (“Breathless,” 1960).

By: Diane Firstman

Diane Firstman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:24:04 +0000

My dad would have been 82 yesterday. Sigh.
I never had pets …. except for some ill-kept fish.

Friday marks one year without Todd.

Time marches on …

thanks Alex …

By: Biscuit Pants

Biscuit Pants — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:40:46 +0000

What’s that old line? “He went home with the Trib and the Times and woke up with the post in his hand.”

I think Hot Stove time is some of my favorite on the Banter, Alex, when you write your non-baseball stuff. My home could be yours, except we have a Cairn Terrier to go along with the two cats. When they go, I’ll be destroyed.

Btw . . 30 days!

By: Mattpat11

Mattpat11 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:10:58 +0000

Two of the worst days of my life are when my dogs Donna (10 years old) and Brewskl (2 years old) died. It was absolutely devastating, I often get violently angry when someone calls a pet “just an animal”