Nostalgia overload
Posted 09-15-2008 at 09:28 PM by No spoken words
Howdy.
This weekend, I am heading home to NYC for two different but very highly anticipated events.
Sunday night is the last baseball game ever at Yankee Stadium. Some of you might know that I am a huge sports fan, and of all the teams I root for, none mean more to me than the Yankees. So, while I feel very lucky to be able to attend, it is a little sad to say goodbye. That might seem odd....it's just a building, but, it's a building that houses memories of mine from age 5-37, and that's no small thing. My best friend will be coming up from Philly to attend with me, which is great, as he and I have attended countless games there together. Overall, it will be fun, but tinged with a little of sadness.
The 2nd event actually occurs Saturday night, and it's my 20th HS reunion. First of all, good fucking lord, I'm old. But, I'm really looking forward to this. A lot of people I know look back at HS as something they merely endured, and I get that. But for me, HS was an amazing 4 years.
I went to the same school for K-9, and it was a neighborhood school in The Bronx. And, if I can be immodest for one second....it was very easy to do well there, I was rarely challenged. And while I knew my classmates for years and played ball with them year-round, I never felt like I truly fit in with them. Then I got accepted to the HS I attended, and it truly impacted my life.
This was a public HS, but, you had to test in. Kids from all 5 boroughs attended, and the students there ran the gamut in all ways....myriad ethnicities, races, religions, economic backgrounds, etc....it was great. Besides the great education I got there, I was exposed to a lot of different authors, bands, schools of thought, etc. It was really a lot like college (Trust me, Dalton). Anyway, my graduating class, though large, was remarkably tight-knit, and so, our 10 and 15 year reunions were blasts, and this should be no different. It's just that such events force you to look back a bit, and that's interesting head space to explore. Also, I know of some people that I liked a lot back then that are attending but were not at the 10 or 15, so how odd will it be to see someone you knew so well, but 20 years later? Odd.
I'm fucking rambling my ass off, blah blah blah, but, you get the point......I'll have a weekend laden with memories and such, and it will be great overall, but there's always something bittersweet about such things, at least for me.
This weekend, I am heading home to NYC for two different but very highly anticipated events.
Sunday night is the last baseball game ever at Yankee Stadium. Some of you might know that I am a huge sports fan, and of all the teams I root for, none mean more to me than the Yankees. So, while I feel very lucky to be able to attend, it is a little sad to say goodbye. That might seem odd....it's just a building, but, it's a building that houses memories of mine from age 5-37, and that's no small thing. My best friend will be coming up from Philly to attend with me, which is great, as he and I have attended countless games there together. Overall, it will be fun, but tinged with a little of sadness.
The 2nd event actually occurs Saturday night, and it's my 20th HS reunion. First of all, good fucking lord, I'm old. But, I'm really looking forward to this. A lot of people I know look back at HS as something they merely endured, and I get that. But for me, HS was an amazing 4 years.
I went to the same school for K-9, and it was a neighborhood school in The Bronx. And, if I can be immodest for one second....it was very easy to do well there, I was rarely challenged. And while I knew my classmates for years and played ball with them year-round, I never felt like I truly fit in with them. Then I got accepted to the HS I attended, and it truly impacted my life.
This was a public HS, but, you had to test in. Kids from all 5 boroughs attended, and the students there ran the gamut in all ways....myriad ethnicities, races, religions, economic backgrounds, etc....it was great. Besides the great education I got there, I was exposed to a lot of different authors, bands, schools of thought, etc. It was really a lot like college (Trust me, Dalton). Anyway, my graduating class, though large, was remarkably tight-knit, and so, our 10 and 15 year reunions were blasts, and this should be no different. It's just that such events force you to look back a bit, and that's interesting head space to explore. Also, I know of some people that I liked a lot back then that are attending but were not at the 10 or 15, so how odd will it be to see someone you knew so well, but 20 years later? Odd.
I'm fucking rambling my ass off, blah blah blah, but, you get the point......I'll have a weekend laden with memories and such, and it will be great overall, but there's always something bittersweet about such things, at least for me.
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Have fun Mike!
Say goodbye to the stadium for me.Posted 09-15-2008 at 10:48 PM by zonelistener 
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Have a good time!Posted 09-16-2008 at 01:39 AM by Lila64 - :up:
Have a wonderful time.
And remember...theres no crying in baseball.
:wink:Posted 09-16-2008 at 01:51 AM by Night & Day -
Have a great time! You should take a camcorder.
Be careful.
Posted 09-16-2008 at 02:16 AM by RedRocksU2 -
Sounds like a really great week (?) ahead, actually. I got caught up in a high school nostalgia thing last night when a girl I was good friends with in HS wrote to me on facebook. I've got no fond memories of a lot of things, but the friends I had? Always good memories there.
As for stadiums, I hear you on that, too, but to elaborate further would sound weird (me? weird? haha). And well, it's an inanimate structure..
Happy travels down Memory Ln., Mr NSW.Posted 09-16-2008 at 07:07 AM by Angela Harlem -
I'm going to the Saturday game. one of my sisters is a die hard Yanks fan and this is actually my first (and last) time at Yankee Stadium. Enjoy your reunion and the gamePosted 09-16-2008 at 07:07 AM by U2Girl416 -
Hi Mike, no one gives a fuck called. They said, "No one gives a fuck." Vile pigdog scum.Posted 09-16-2008 at 09:57 AM by UberBeaver -
I will be hiking on Sunday, far from any cities or stadiums, but I will be wearing my Yankee cap for this special occasion.Posted 09-16-2008 at 10:15 AM by beegee -
Don't quit. Don't even quit.Posted 09-16-2008 at 10:21 AM by unico -
Have a wonderful time! Take loads of pics.Posted 09-16-2008 at 12:15 PM by shari schultz -
Dear Unico and Beav,
Thank you for being completely useless to me!
-NSWPosted 09-16-2008 at 12:23 PM by No spoken words -
Posted 09-16-2008 at 12:33 PM by Bonochick -
at the seventh inning stretch you should hold up a sign that says GFY or something like that and I would too but that would be silly. Listen for me, I'll be yelling O during the national anthemPosted 09-16-2008 at 02:46 PM by lynnok - That would indeed be silly. I'll keep an eye out, though.
Posted 09-16-2008 at 03:01 PM by No spoken words - Fuck fuck fuck. I might have to miss the reunion. Fuck.
Posted 09-17-2008 at 02:40 PM by No spoken words - Why?
Posted 09-17-2008 at 02:55 PM by zonelistener - Work.
Posted 09-17-2008 at 03:37 PM by No spoken words - SUCKA!
Posted 09-17-2008 at 04:10 PM by unico -
If your friend survives SEPTA, I'd be surprised.
Hope everything gets settled for your reunion, too.Posted 09-17-2008 at 05:41 PM by LMP 
- That sucks. "It" gets in the way too much.
Posted 09-17-2008 at 05:57 PM by zonelistener
