Been a crazy start to 2023. Adam Rich (Nicolas on Eight is Enough) passed at age 54, Robbie Knievel (son of great daredevil Evil Knievel) passes at age 60, and Astronaut, Cosmonauts stuck on Space Station extra month. But there has also been a lot of good things happening, including

NY Giants win 1st play-off game in 11 years – THE NY Giants beat the Minnesota Vikings 31-24 to advance to the next round of the NFL Play-Offs and will face the Philadelphia Eagles for a 3rd time this year. The Giants finally have a component coach who has figured out how to get the best out of Danial Jones (Something dopey Pat Shurmer and even dopier Joe Judge could not do). They are finally believing that they can win close games and have a good shot of beating the Eagles on Saturday night

My wife got us tickets to see A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical . I have always been a big fan of Neil Dimond, and the show was really good. It showed the history of Neil Diamond as told by present day Neil. Was a great trip through his life and songs. Highly recommended, especially if you are a Neil Diamond Fan. Also, give the sound track a listen. Its a good take on the show

My wife also got me Clive Cusslers “The Sea Wolves”, the latest Isaac Bell Adventure. I was extremely surprised and shocked to see the return of Foss Gly, one of the best villains from the Dirk Pitt books. I wrote a while ago on this blog about how Foss Gly was on off my favorite characters.

The Lehigh and Seton Hall Basketball teams have been playing well and hope they can continue to rack up wins against conference teams.

And we are only 4 weeks away from Pitchers and Catchers reporting for Spring Training. Its a bit earlier this year due to the return of the World Baseball Classic. The Mets should be good again this year (even without Carlos Correa, who almost signed, but ended up back in Minnesota).

Andy