Saurday Night, Pirates and Penguins

Some idle thoughts while flipping between the Pirates and Penguins games....

** SABR meeting was today, and it went well, if the comments I heard from the attendees are to be believed. We had three visiting authors visit to talk about their latest books, Pirates Prez Frank Coonelly was our Special Guest and he gave a "State of the Pirates" talk, and some good presentations by some of the members. The time from 8:45 to 3:00 just flew by.

** Pirates just went up 1-0 in the second; Pens scoreless in the first.

** Went to the Franklin Park VFD annual spaghetti dinner tonight. Spaghetti dinners are almost as good as fish fries in Lent. And they sold 50/50 tickets to boot!

** Speaking of 50/50 raffles, we tried one at the SABR meeting today and raised $41. Not bad.

** One of our visiting authors was Colleen Hroncich who has just written "The Whistling Irishman", a book about her grandfather, Danny Murtaugh. She was only two years old when Danny died, and her talking about getting to "know" her grandfather while researching the book was touching. Looking forward to reading the book.

** If you like good mystery novels, I recommend the Alex Delaware novels by Jonathan Kellerman. They guy writes great dialog.

** Kris Letang SCORES!!! 1-0 Pens with 1:26 to play in the first.

** Doc Emerick has to be the best play-by-play guy, any sport, on TV.

** Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there.

** Signing off. Bucs still lead, 1-0, but Albert is on second for the Cards with one out.